Triskelion staff visited primary-, secondary- and vocational schools in Esenler suburb in Istanbul to see how they have worked towards integrating Syrian refugees into schools and everyday life. We were also granted a welcome at the mayor’s office where he was interested in starting cooperation in the education sector for his team of schools. We emphasised our historical connections back to viking times around 900 when a norseman/viking called Halvdan wrote his name on the balcony of the second floor in Hagia Sofia church probably serving as a guard to the royalty.
Dr Martin Persson was invited to speak to the European Parliament on 27 February 2018. The breakfast event, hosted by MEP Sean Kelly and attended by a diverse audience of other MEPs and policy makers, was an opportunity to get clefts and craniofacial anomalies on the Parliament’s agenda. The aim is to start pressing the European Commission for specific resources for cleft and craniofacial care in order to reduce the huge inequalities across Europe, enabling equal access to good quality lifelong cleft care. Also with a speech at the event, ECO Executive Director Gareth Davies, stated ‘access to good cleft care is a basic human right and everyone born with a cleft and craniofacial anomaly should have the opportunity of realizing their full potential. There are a million people in Europe with clefts – equivalent to a city the size of Brussels. This in not a marginal concern and needs addressing urgently”
Early care training project discussed family’s needs of provision of care
The project team met in Vilnius, Lithuania in late February to discuss parent/patient information needs in each country. From our initial findings in each country, it was clear that both groups – patients and health care professionals – needed further information and education about how to care for children with clefts and craniofacial anomalies. The pedagogical report was presented. The importance of course structure and design were emphasised with the key message being that the overall impact of our training was the measure of success. Change in clinical practice was the aim of the learning process and course design should have this as the ultimate goal. A summary of the EQF framework was presented; this course was pitched at level EQF 4 which would be sufficient to fill all the gaps highlighted in the national reports and patient needs.
Next meetings were set to
- 28 -29 September, Bucharest
- 15 February 2018, Plovdiv
CUTTING EDGE TRAINING project meeting in Bergen, Norway
The Cutting Edge Training project had the second project meeting in Bergen, Norway at Haukeland University Hospital on the 16th of February 2018. The purpose of the meeting was to agree upon the training materials and content of training which will take place in October in Bucharest. The pedagogical report done by HKR and Triskelion is the foundation for the EQF level 4 training materials that will be developed. Nichola Rhumsey from Triskelion presented the suggested framework of the training modules.
Cost Action gathering in Zagreb
The 20 countries that participate in the Cost Action “European Cleft and Craniofacial Initiative for Equality in Care” met in Croatia on Thursday 25th – Friday 26th January 2018 at The University of Zagreb School of Dental Medicine. The main aim of the action is to ensure that every child born with a cleft or craniofacial condition in Europe must have the opportunity of realising their full potential. It is acknowledged at European level that health professional does not have enough resources and/or training to deliver the same provision of care. Thomas Nilsen from Triskelion was representative from Norway and is heading Work Group 5, dealing with dissemination. The different work groups started their assessment of the work that needs to be done and will meet next time for a big conference in Niš, Serbia – September 2018.
Correct IT Kickoff in Stavanger
The Correct IT project had kickoff in Stavanger on the 23 of September 2017. The project timeline and structure was discussed and a detailed work plan agreed upon. Each team presented how they have organised for the project implementation internally. The kickoff ended with a transnational team building dinner. Next steps of the intellectual outputs was agreed upon.
Cutting edge training kickoff in Kristianstad
The Cutting Edge Training project had kickoff in Kristianstad early November 2017. The project team consist of Haukeland Sykehus in Bergen, ALA association from Bulgaria, Clinica Cittàgiardino from Italy, Høgskolan Kristanstad from Sweden and European Cleft Association from Netherlands. The focus will be to develop training and train healthcare professionals working with patients undergoing appearance altering performances.
Article in Swedish newspaper: News article1 News article 2
Correct it Facebook and web page up and running
The Correct it project has launched a Facebook site and a web page.
They can be found here:
WEB SITE
World food day 16th October and Correct it Project
Today on the 16th of October is the world food day. Food and Agriculture organization of the united nations organize this event in 150 countries around the world, making it one of the most celebrated days of the UN calendar. These events promote worldwide awareness and action for those who suffer from hunger and for the need to ensure food security and nutritious diets for all. See link to website about the day;
Cost action CA16234 kicks off in Brussels
The Cost action CA16234 had kickoff in Brussels 5th of October 2017, and with 20 countries involved and several more on the way in, it will be a major force to recon with in the harmonisation of European cleft care. Gareth Davies of European Cleft Organisation was voted in as chairman of the action, while Triskelion’s Thomas Nilsen will be responsible for dissemination together with work group 5.
Article in Swedish newspaper: News article
First meeting today of new EU Erasmus+ funded project, developing a training programme for the early care of babies born with clefts. Partners from Latvia, Norway, Bulgaria, Greece, Netherlands and Romania meet in Rijswijk, The Hague. This is an exciting time for European Cleft Organisation and Triskelion!
Project number : 2017-1-NL01-KA202-035195
Correct IT project kickoff set
The Correct IT project kickoff has been set til 23.rd October in Stavanger, Norway.
Our project identification: 2017-1-RO01-KA202-037373
NEW Obesity prevention project approved!
The Erasmus + Strategic partnerships for vocational training project “Corrective VET – international training for obesity prevention and healthy life style promotion” has been approved by the Romanian national EU agency. This is a 36 month project and the objective of the “CORRECT IT!“ project is to gather a healthy lifestyle good practices collection and develop an innovative VET training curricula, methods and contents on obesity prevention and healthy lifestyle skills for nurses, teachers, social workers in order to improve their knowledge and skills and capacitate them to positively act upon their end-users.
Project number: 2017-1-RO01-KA202-037373
Triskelion involved in new COST action
Triskelion staff is now involved in the new COST action network-
CA16234 – EUROPEAN CLEFT AND CRANIOFACIAL INITIATIVE FOR EQUALITY IN CARE.
http://www.cost.eu/COST_Actions/ca/CA16234
The main aim of the Action is to ensure that children born with orofacial clefts and other craniofacial conditions receive optimum multidisciplinary care enabling them to grow up like any other child and attain equal status within their societies. Estimates indicate that there are over 1,000 000 individuals with clefts in Europe – a significant figure, especially when one considers that not only the patients but also their families are affected in terms of psychosocial adjustment and having to endure the burden of a long treatment pathway.
The Action, in particular, will work with Target Inclusiveness Countries where limited or no national protocols exist in cleft and craniofacial care and will, via healthcare research, develop health-integrated networks which will manage and oversee the development of cleft and craniofacial services. Europe currently lacks a harmonised approach to evaluate the current provision of care, the impacts on key areas of the affected families and society at large. This Action will co-ordinate and increase research across Europe and will forge crucial links between researchers, practitioners and policy-makers, offering the potential for significant benefits to the families affected by orofacial clefts and other craniofacial conditions in Europe.
Cutting Edge Training project approved
Kristianstad University, working together with Triskelion, has just received approval of the Erasmus+ financing of the CET – Cutting Edge Training project: “Optimising medical outcomes for patients undergoing appearance altering procedures via innovative training of health care professionals”. The project will be starting in September 2017.
A brand new film about the nature of Norway is out! Have a look and be amazed by our fantastic serene and beautiful nature;
Podcasts about beauty and appearance
Follow Centre of appearance research’s brilliant podcasts on beauty and appearance on soundcloud;
https://soundcloud.com/appearance-matters
Cooperation with community of PICO, Azores Island established
Triskelion has just signed a cooperation agreement with the town hall/community of PICO island, Azores, Portugal regarding development of inclusion activities within YOUTH and VET field. The Madalena City Council has made great efforts to internationalize and diversify the financing of this building, its organizations and local citizens, through the use of strategic European and international partnerships. Steven Barbosa has been the key liaison to facilitate this.
During the COST action IS1210 final conference Anna Faustova from the Ryazan State medical university gave an interesting walkthrough of the appearance research situation in Russia. Almost 200 000 000 euro was spent on plastic surgery in 2016 alone!