1. ArctiChildren InNet (10.3.2012-10.12.2014) Empowering School e-Health Model in the Barents region Developing New e-Health Approaches and Strengthening the Learning and Health connection through multimodalities and ICT applications at Schools Total project budget: € 1 325 503

2. ArctiChildren InNet network consists of following partners… Lead Partner: Rovaniemi University of Applied Sciences (School of Health Care and Sports, School of Technology, School of the Business Administration) Partners: Luleå University of Technology (Faculty of Education, Department of Health Sciences) Finnmark University College (Department of Educational Studies, Department of Social Work) Murmansk State Humanities University (Department of Social Sciences) Northern Arctic Federal University (Bio-Medical Research Institute) Kemi-Tornio University of Applied Sciences (School of Health Care, Cultural Studies) University of Lapland (Faculty of Education, Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Social Sciences) three pilot schools from every participating country will be involved in the project with cultural and environmental differences

3. To improve the common challenges of the schoolchildren´s psychical, psychological, emotional, social and spiritual health and well- being, security and cultural identity through Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) applications in the Barents Region

4. To develop an Empowering School e-Health Model by implementing new approaches in every participating country. School e-Health approaches are developed in cross-border cooperation with schoolchildren, parents, teachers, social and health care experts and researchers in the ArctiChildren network.

5.  Establishing the network with urban and rural pilot schools, universities and colleges  Planning and implementing three different surveys based on qualitative and quantitative methodology  Benchmarking the international best practices in school e- Health / e-Learning  Analysing the cross-border needs of developing school e- Health /e-Learning approaches  Planning and implementing the suitable ICT environment in pilot schools  Multidisciplinary planning process to identify the best applications to approach new e-Health interactions / practices  Creating a cross border cooperation report about empowering school e-Health and e-Learning interventions/practices  Cross border cooperation publications in English, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian and Russian

6. School-aged children are typically the early adopters of new technologies (Facebook, You Tube, Habbo Hotel etc.) - we can ask if children are more and more experts in using internet compared to adults..? Youths' traditional sources of health information are no longer satisfying their needs (=social and health care services are often too formal and inflexible) and they are increasingly using the internet for health-related information.

7. We adults, as parents and social and health care practioners have to take over the internet as a new arena to discuss with youth about health-related issues. The internet provides innovative opportunities for populations, e.g. youths in rural settings, and for providing e-Health services to the community generally. Also internet is an innovative tool for social and health care educators and practitioners to develop different ways for health promotion.

8. Interaction within social media enables sharing information between each other. In other words, members within the web society produce information more and more by themselves. => social media gives possibilities for youth to benefit of their own personal knowledge and resources This means that youth are creating new knowledge for promoting their own health by involving positive characteristics: participation, sense of community and empowerment

9. The basic question is how to find the best solutions and methods to use social media for health communication. ArctiChildren InNet (2012-2014) project will give the best response for that issue, because schoolchildren themselves will participate in the project as active actors together with other project actors and organizations.

10. 1.A cross-border frame of reference created about the project cooperation for achieving an empowering school e- Health / e-Learning model

11. 2. Action study to assess the actual ICT use, attitudes and needs and benchmarking process to develop school e-Health and e-Learning applications

12. 3. Build up an ICT environment (i.e website, virtual environment) where the dialogue with new interventions and practices will be implemented at the three levels described in activity 4.

13. 4. New interventions/practices created at three levels 1.Classroom level 2.Expert - pupils - level 3.Home-school collaboration level 5. Empowering school e-Health Model developed

14. NOT ONLY PEER COMMUNICATION BUT SCHOOL-AGED CHILDREN NEED ALSO DIALOGUE WITH SOCIAL AND HEALTH CARE EXPERTS AND OTHER ADULTS IN THE INTERNET

16. Thank you for your attention ! More information Eiri Sohlman Project Manager / ArctiChildren InNet 2012-2014 Enpi eiri.sohlman@ramk.fi