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The Developing Competences for Stress Resilience @SMEs (DeSTRESS) project aims to provide an innovative solution to the problem of work-related stress, faced by an increasing number of enterprises, managers and employees. The negative impact on productivity represents a major, hidden cost in many organisations and especially small and medium enterprises (SME). Unlike larger enterprises, which have dedicated human resource specialists and welfare offices, managers in SMEs have few, if any, resources to tackle this problem and no access to experts. In this context, contributing for the development of competencies to manage work-related stress is therefore
essential.

Outputs

DeSTRESS will result in an innovative VET-based approach to help SMEs develop competencies to mitigating the negative consequences of stress in the workplace in the digital age. Building on existing research, partners will develop a VET curriculum and a new VET Digital Training Platform using the latest techniques in game-based learning and gamification complemented by a set of practical tools and resources to facilitate the transfer of learning into the workplace. As such, the project follows the VET priority by strengthening key competences through a methodological VET approach, focusing on continuing VET.

The project will raise awareness of the problem, and enable managers to plan for and to mitigate its occurrence and the negative consequences of work-based stress. In particular, DeSTRESS will focus on the psycho-social risk factors and health hazards resulting from use of digital technology (DT) and it will address the development of key skills and competences related to workplace stress created by the increasing use of DT. As a result, SMEs will benefit from improved staff productivity and will be better placed on the Digital Transformation whilst mitigating many of the negative consequences associated with it.

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