RoboPop – HealthLab as an environment for continuous learning

A project to create a local knowledge ecosystem and improve health and wellbeing technology education.

There is a growing need for technology-oriented solutions and multidisciplinary personnel expertise in Finland and in all industrialized countries.

Identified sectors that require competence development, more skilled workforce, and new training opportunities include, for example, the social and healthcare sector, which are also clear sectors of growth and restructuring. Social and healthcare professionals must have knowledge of various technology solutions, the ability to guide customers in the use of technology and innovate new usage possibilities. For the sectors of technology, wellness and health technology as an industry offers significant growth potential both domestically and from an export perspective.

In addition to a high level of technology expertise, success in the sectors requires multi-level customer understanding and knowledge of agile co-development operating models as well as knowledge of the regulations and laws that govern medical devices.

RoboPop, HealthLab as an environment for continuous learning, is a project to create a local knowledge ecosystem and improve health and wellbeing technology education.
The main objective of the RoboPop project is to improve the quality and supply of education by promoting multidisciplinary wellness and health technology expertise in Central Ostrobothnia.

The target groups of the project in the Central Ostrobothnia region are

• students, RDI and education staff in the social, healthcare and technology sectors of higher and secondary education
• employees of social and healthcare and technology companies in the private and public sectors

The objectives of the project are to

• develop learning environments that enable continuous learning and pedagogy that support learning, and to increase the supply of individual, diverse, time- and place-independent education in the sectors of well-being and health technology expertise
• support the use of new operating methods and technology, as well as related learning and competence development at workplaces
• promote the integration of research, development and innovation activities into education and working life in the sectors of social, healthcare and technology