The project focuses on higher education for human services professionals by developing a multilingual Nordic digital curriculum to enhance LGBTQIA+ competencies within social work and healthcare. Research has highlighted the limited and inadequate coverage of these topics in existing social and healthcare education programs.

There are challenges that include inadequate training about encountering LGBTQIA+ populations, professional’s possible biases to encounter LGBTQIA+ people and heteronormativity in social work practice. These issues negatively impact LGBTQIA+ individuals  and increase their unequal position in social and healthcare settings.

The project uses a co-creation approach involving students, NGOs, and experts to create a digital curriculum accessible in Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, and English. The curriculum includes modules covering sexual and gender diversity, life course perspectives, and LGBTQIA+ issues in social work and healthcare. The curriculum will be hosted on a digital platform and made openly available for students, professionals, and educators.