Kickoff Meeting of nEUROcare Project
The first European Kickoff in the EU Capacity building project nEUROcare- “A European initiative for capacity building to meet the challenges of caring for people with neurodegenerative disorders in Sri Lanka”, was held in Tallinn, Estonia October 2021.
This is a Joint Project through the main coordination of Kristianstad University (Sweden) with partner Universities in Europe and Sri Lanka namely Triskelion (Norway), University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), University of Tartu (Estonia), University of Ruhuna (Sri Lanka), University of Colombo (Sri Lanka), University of Peradeniya and Kotelawala Defense University (Sri Lanka).
The project addresses the essential priorities set by the CBHE which curriculum development in “health” is of a priority in Asia. The four universities of Sri Lanka are covering the area of the highest population density in the country and there is a significant need to increase the capacity to train healthcare students and healthcare professionals about neurodegenerative diseases (NDD). By doing so, the project adheres to the CBHE Joint projects focus by developing a new curriculum and continuous training. This project will develop courses; each course will have two European partners and one Sri Lanka partner that will work together to generate the course material. This will ensure that the developed course material has input from various experts from the consortium as well as ensuring that the content is appropriate for the Sri Lankan circumstances. Finally, accreditation for the designed programs will be implemented continuously for the Sri Lankan partner universities on either a postgraduate certificate, postgraduate diploma and Masters by coursework before the end of the project time life.
Will you still feel beautiful?
Will You Still Feel Beautiful When You Find Out You Are Different?”: Parents’ Experiences, Reflections, and Appearance-Focused Conversations About Their Child’s Visible Difference.
Read the paper here:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/10497323211039205
Euroteq in Thessaloniki
The EUROTEQ team gathered in Greece late November to look at details of the course curriculum that is under development. The national analysis and surveys were presented-Program implementation: views from healthcare professionals and patient organisations. We also looked at the reports covering Clinical research and measurement literacy for improved transparency and equality in health across Europe.
ECCE Cost Action meeting in Tallinn
ECCE-EUROPEAN CLEFT AND CRANIOFACIAL INITIATIVE FOR EQUALITY IN CARE, had the first physical meeting since COVID shut down most of Europe. We worked in smaller focus groups to discuss the work packages and the outputs of the action and listened to Early career researchers presentations.
Body Confident Mum project meeting
For the first time since the impact of Covid-19 the project team had the pleasure of a physical meeting at Bäckaskog Castle just outside Kirstianstad in Sweden in early November 2021. The aim of the project was to assess the proposed training materials/lectures and develop the details of the curriculum.
European Autism Conference 2022
Autism Europe has just announced the European Autism Conference for 2022 in Krakow, Poland. follow the conference link:
https://www.autismeurope.org/what-we-do/international-congresses/next-congress/
Training materials for Body Confident Mums project now online
The preliminary training course lectures of Dr Zali Yager and Dr. Martin Persson is now posted online directly on the project’s website:
http://bcmeurope.eu/resources
The course consists of 4 modules with around 3 hours of recorded lectures.
During the next months the course materials will be updated after the last feedback and made available to partners for pilot testing and translations
Health at a Glance: Europe 2020
The 2020 edition of Health at a Glance: Europe focuses on the impact of the COVID‑19 crisis. Chapter 1 provides an initial assessment of the resilience of European health systems to the COVID-19 pandemic and their ability to contain and respond to the worst pandemic in the past century.
ECO- European Cleft with online training
European cleft Organisation is now training healthcare workers online in response to current restrictions on travel and face to face meetings as a result of the global pandemic. They have a five-session course over seven weeks for front line health professionals in Barcelona, Spain, and focusing on early cleft care with an emphasis on feeding. The training is based around our Early Care Training Programme developed with a grant from the EU Erasmus programme in 2017