Context: Men’s Health has a high relevance for men and fathers. Men put less focus on their self-care than women, they live more risky, they subsist less healthy and they have a higher risk to commit suicide. At the same time we assert that the offers of health information, which are basically for Health Literacy, have to be strengthened. We determine a high need for a stand-alone offer, which focuses on boys, men and fathers. This offer should also emphasize the sphere of mental health, like it is defined in the Ottawa Charta of the UNO. Need: Moreover, the Exchange-Project „Health information for men and fathers in the Internet“ comes from the fact, that we as institutions, which educate men and fathers, communicate more and more via internet with our clients. This derives from divers facts. Our clients tend strongly to get informations about relevant topics from the internet.Our clients tend to exert the strategy to help themselves when questions and problems are arisingOur clients often don’t have time to research for relevant informations during the normal working hours when our services are reachable. So they research at the weekend and use the internet for it. Our clients emphasize discretion, therefore they use the internet. There are two crucial points concerning this strategies:Many Websites with informations about health are commercial and don’t provide serious information. Many Websites with informations about health don’t provide the possibility to get in personal contact with the provider to receive further professional established information. Aims of the project: The project embraces five aims: We improve the quality of our work by a professional exchange of our concepts for adult education concerning men’s health for men and fathersWe improve our information of adult education concerning men’s health on our websitesWe generate a checklist of necessary measures and resources which are needed for the development of adult education concerning men’s health on our websitesWe work out criteria, which are required for our target gourd to understand our information concerning men’s healthWe build up a network which ist generated by the common work on this project. By this we are able to execute further projects in future. Target group:Our target group ar men and fathers who search for adult education concerning men’s health for men and fathers on our websites. Essential working themes:As institutions, which are working in the field of adult education concerning men’s health, it is our goal to prepare a high quality fo adult education concerning men’s health on our websites. This includes the following themes: Improving the Health Literacy of our recipients: Health Literacy includes the knowledge, the motivation and the abilities of men, to find relevant health information. By this they have the position to evaluate and use this information in their everyday lives to keep or to improve their quality of live und health during all of their live ((https://oepgk.at/glossary/gesundheitskompetenz-2/, 9. April 2020). Seriousness of the information: This is vouched by the professionalism of the persons in charge Preparing the information according to the need of the clients. This concerns the wording and the graphic editingEasy-to-use preparation Necessary resources: Technical requirements for the preparation of the adult education concerning men’s health on our websites. Possibility to get in contact with our professionals: This will be granted by the seriousness and high quality of our adult education concerning men’s healthBarrier-free access to our adult education concerning men’s health: Compliance of the relevant guidelines

"<< Background >>Health status and behavior of men are often unsatisfactory. In addition, men in all target groups are not reached enough by health education and health promotion offers. This is all the more true for the group of educationally and access-handicapped men with fewer health opportunities, who have so far hardly found access to health education offers.In order to overcome the underrepresentation of men in health education and promotion, new approaches and qualified trainers, mediators and actors are needed. They are considered ""key people"" in health education of disadvantaged men: professional and voluntary employees or part-time freelance workers as well as program managers in educational institutions. If we want disadvantaged men to be able to take more care of their health, an essential precondition in terms of education and accessibility is that they can be better reached by health education. To this end, key people, especially as trainers must be sensitized and qualified; also new forms of learning are needed in which disadvantaged men can inform and educate themselves in a self-organized manner.The HelpMenTTT project reflects that qualification of health educators, together with suitable didactics, are essential preconditions and success criteria for improving health education of disadvantaged men. The project thus combines current research results with content-related results of the strategic partnership HelpMen (2017-19), transforms them into a training concept and brings them into a process of qualification and application with newly developed content, methods and media products. The project also concretizes the WHO's “Strategy on the health and well-being of men in the WHO European Region” from 2018 and helps to implement it.The project starts with the skills and practices of key people as trainers. It develops and tests a specific training concept for trainers and actors in men's health education. Although it is known that disadvantaged men in particular are barely reached by health education, there is currently no training concept to reach the target group ""men with educationally disadvantaged access and accessibility"". This covers an open need in health education and that new content, innovative approaches, methods, tools and materials are developed and tested. In the sense of a training program, the project partners hold exploratory qualification events for the trainers, mediators, actors in men's health education. Embedded and as part of their qualification, these key people design accommodating and low-threshold pilot events for the target group of educationally disadvantaged men and implement them in their practical context as target group-specific adult health education. As a result, the training concept is subjected to participatory testing, which is also evaluated.The experiences from TTT and pilot events are evaluated, summarized and the results are didactically prepared. The products of the HelpMenTTT project then emerge from this experience:- development, content creation and operation of an online learning platform on the subject of health education for disadvantaged men as a tool pool for trainers, health educators and those responsible- a print manual for trainers, intermediaries, actors who work with disadvantaged men in presence or in blended learning eventsBoth products are made widely available to those responsible, trainers and specialists and are made available to promote work with the target group of disadvantaged men even after the end of the project.<< Objectives >>The implementation of the project addresses the health well-being and quality of life of educationally and access disadvantaged men and increases the participation opportunities of these men. Their health behaviour and health status are to be improved by the project. Especially men with educational and access disadvantages have so far not been reached by health education. Therefore, the project aims to increase the underrepresentation of men in the field of health education and promotion and to create the conditions for this to succeed better. As a link between health education and the disadvantaged men, key persons are identified and addressed as health mediators. So far, they do not have access, methods and suitable tools for the health education of disadvantaged men. The project aims at informing and qualifying such key persons - actors, volunteers, full-time and part-time professionals, trainers - in such a way that their skills in health education for men are strengthened. In the European Erasmus+ context, the project aims to translate outputs from the strategic partnership ""HelpMen"" - which worked from 2017 to 2019, was awarded ""Best Practice"" in the final evaluation and scored 95 points - into a training concept and thus into health education practice. In this predecessor project, a curriculum was designed, but without offering a qualification concept for such professionals and actors in health education. The HelpMenTT project develops such a training concept and programme and implements it, supported by innovative tools, in explorative qualification events. This enables multipliers in the field of health education to be qualified and motivated so that they can become active themselves. The target group of disadvantaged men is reached in exemplary implementation formats that are integrated into the TTT activities. Here, the project opens up new approaches to disadvantaged men and, with their participation, develops suitable content and innovative methods that are tested and evaluated in a participatory manner. The target group of men with educational and access disadvantages is thus better reached by health education, their health-promoting behaviours are strengthened and they change health-risky behaviour.The project will evaluate and summarise its findings, analyses and practical experiences in a further step. They will be integrated on a learning platform with innovative educational tools for disadvantaged men. In addition, the training concept for health education of disadvantaged men will be developed. This concept with information and methods will be made available online on the learning platform to all interested parties and responsible persons and will also be made available for classroom or blended learning formats as a print manual. The learning platform will be established during the project period, but will also be operated beyond the end of the project; it will be interactively expanded by users, discussed in chats, updated in terms of content and maintained.Finally, it is a concern of the project to disseminate its most important results and to sensitise those responsible for health education to this important topic. Therefore, central results of the project and the project products are communicated to multipliers and responsible persons in seminar conferences. The last multiplier event aims to disseminate the results throughout Europe (in non-German speaking countries).<< Implementation >>Central activities in the HelpMenTTT project are, in addition to the partner meetings accompanying the project, the development of the innovative training concept, its testing, evaluation and dissemination as well as the development of relevant didactic materials and media in the form of a learning platform and a manual. In the process, modules of the training concept are tested in exploratory qualification projects with key people. This includes the implementation of practical activities with disadvantaged men who have health educational needs. The project results are published in a print version of the manual as well as online on a learning platform and presented at regional seminar conferences.The project follows a methodology of intervention and action research that integrates a theory-practice transfer. The project partners form and see themselves as a focus group. The focus group works actively on the examined topic, which is made available for practice in order to qualify those engaged in health education. In addition, experts and trainers in TTT seminars are reached and also men in the target group are actively involved in pilot projects. Methods of collegial advice are practiced for the international exchange of experience and knowledge transfer. The quality of the project is regularly assessed using self-evaluation methods.The process of developping, testing, evaluation and dissemination of the HelpMenTTT training concept is developed by the project partners and coordinated in the partner meetings and implemented in the joint work on the product ""Modular Training Manual"". The following elements are included:- Exploratory analysis: practice analysis, research for good practice and for TTT qualification approaches (in the specific subject area of the project)- Concept development: development of the TTT training concept (on the basis of the ""HelpMen"" curriculum)- Development of educational tools: e.g. basic presentation ""Basics of men's health promotion"", interactive methods for face-to-face and online situations (e.g. online quiz, e-learning module for self-directed learning)The TTT qualifications are then offered with a working version of the training concept:- Qualification of full-time and part-time trainers, intermediaries, actors in adult education and health education- Testing of educational tools (face-to-face and online)Part of these qualifications is the application in exploratory pilot events. These are designed as implementation projects by the trained key people for the target group of men who are disadvantaged in terms of education and access. Here the concept is tested in different contexts and checked and evaluated for its practicality.- then if necessary revision and additionThe participatory, low-threshold pilot events make it possible to test and evaluate the concept and its elements. The participating men are also involved in the quality development of the content and the project products through feedback rounds.One goal of these activities is to implement qualification for key people in men's health education and to anchor them sustainably. For this purpose, a conceptually secured, evaluated and permanently established training concept is developed, which is incorporated and implemented in the relevant contexts.This process with its knowledge and experience leads to the production of the two products of the project: the interactive learning platform and the print manual for health educators.<< Results >>Through its practice-related approaches, the project provides inspiration and impetus to include, establish and further develop men's health as a qualification topic in (non-vocational, non-medical) areas of health and adult education. As a result of the project, appropriately qualified specialists become active themselves and become actors in men's health education. This helps to reduce the underrepresentation of men in the field of health education and promotion, and creates the conditions for health and social participation, especially for men who are disadvantaged in terms of education and access.The project participants embark on an exchange, innovation and development process on TTT experiences in the field of men's health. This project work leads to the development and formulation of a working version of the HelpMenTTT training concept and program.This concept - another result - is implemented in exemplary TTT training activities with trainers in adult education, e.g. in the form of workshops or seminars. In this way, full-time specialists, freelance workers and other actors are reached in the project regions and (basic) qualified for health-related educational processes with men.These key persons are supported in the design of their own pilot events, these are educational activities aimed at men who are disadvantaged in terms of education and access. These activities are part of the qualification and are also used for participatory testing and evaluation of the training concept.The developed content, methods, materials and the evaluated experiences flow into two products of the HelpMenTTT project: On the one hand, the online learning platform on men's health for disadvantaged men, but also for trainers and responsible persons. On the other hand, a print manual for those who prefer haptic materials. Both products for basic qualification on health education of men are made widely available to responsible persons, trainers and specialists.""Modular Training Manual"". This manual for specialists and responsible persons in institutions contains TTT-relevant basic information, didactic materials, tried out and tested methodological approaches as well as presentations, work materials, learning controls, etc.The manual is printed in extracts and made available as an online platform. In addition, the project organizes multiplier events in which those responsible for training are informed and motivated in order to spread the manual and didactic concept and to reach men (better) with health-related educational processes.HelpMenTTT creates a conceptual basis for professionals and educational organizations by implementing basic training approaches for men's health education at an institutional level. This indirectly enables health skills to be sustainably strengthened, especially in disadvantaged groups of men. The online learning platform enables men's health education to be self-directed and independent of time or space.The jointly developed training manual and the published practice materials are freely available to other institutions for adaptation and further development. The project will ultimately also promote and consolidate Europe-wide networking in the field of health education for disadvantaged men."

"The project ""Health Literacy Progress for Men in Europe"" ( HelpMen) addressed the question how men can be better achieved by health literacy and actively improve it. In the whole field of health education and promotion, men are strongly underrepresented. In addition, there is hardly any differentiation between offers for men with lower educational chances, so that disadvantaged or migrant men are not explicitly in sight. This entails the risk that health and social disadvantages will solidify, as people with a high need for basic education often also have health problems and are less well informed of their health. Health is therefore an essential equality issue for men. Objectives of the projectThe guiding principle of the HelpMen project was to reach men better with basic health education and by taking part in a participatory context so that access disadvantages are eliminated. This was intended to enable them to reflect their health situation and, if possible, to improve it and to adopt basic health competences. In order to achieve this, 20 pilot projects were carried out and also multipliers were sensitized, qualified and equipped with a curriculum that can be transferred into their own practice. The HelpMen pilot projects covered a wide range of educational areas and settings, six of them were explicitly related to migration and flight. HelpMen created a broad knowledge for specialists and educational organizations on the health-related basic education of men. This will enable to sustainably strengthen men's health competencies. A central result was the jointly developed curriculum and the publication of the entire project results in book and brochure form. Through the project, a crystallization core was created for European networking in men's health (basic) education. Potential long-term benefitsThe project provided an impetus to include health as a subject of basic education, to discuss this in a gender-differentiated way, and to develop it in a ""masculine"" manner. The integration of health aspects into the canon of basic education will improve the health prerequisites for social participation, particularly for educationally disadvantaged people and for the benefit of health competences."