UdZ 01.21

UdZ 2-2021 / 53 GALA: Innovative Learning andWorking in the Aachen Health Region In April 2021, an interdisciplinary collaborative project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) called ‘GALA – Gesundheitsregion Aachen: innovativ lernen und arbeiten’ (GALA – Health Region Aachen: Innovative Learning and Working) started as a project of the REGION.innovativ alliance and a duration of 3 years. The funding program REGION.innovativ supports regional alliances to address new research and innovation topics and to collaborate with new partners. Several funding rounds focus on different cross-cutting topics. Specifically, the ‘GALA’ project aims to develop sector-specific tools and models for work design and competence management, especially for companies and institutions in the health economics in the Aachen region, and to disseminate these on a sustainable basis. The focus is on four defined key topics: Human-Machine-interaction , healthy working , digital collaboration , and agility and innovation . In order to sustainably anchor the results and make them available, a “Region Aachen Living Lab Initiative” is being set up to offer visionary concepts for work design and competence management. >