Open and Distance Education for Palliative Care at Home Erasmus Project

Project Title

Open and Distance Education for Palliative Care at Home

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Open and distance learning; Health and wellbeing; Recognition, transparency, certification

Project Summary

Most older people in the European Region prefer to have cared at home towards the end of life (Journal of Palliative Medicine, 2000, 3: 287–300). This preference, however, remains still largely unmet. Despite efforts in some countries to improve opportunities for people to die at home, the historical trend toward the hospitalization of death continues, and most older people in Europe die in hospitals or in long-term care facilities (http://www.euro.who.int/InformationSources/Publications/Catalogue/20050118_1, accessed 1 December 2010)

The European Association for Palliative Care and the International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care joined forces with other regional and academic organizations to initiate a global palliative care research initiative with a special focus on low- and medium-income countries. Many organizations have signed the Declaration of Venice: Palliative Care Research in Developing Countries to support this initiative, and the EU has funded major programmes to foster research collaboration across Europe (http://www.compasscollaborative.com).

Promote and invest in developing palliative care skills among staff working across all settings. Ensure that the training of health care professionals includes sufficient time devoted to palliative medicine, geriatric medicine, geriatric nursing and mental health services for older people and that professionals are supported in keeping up to date.

Main objectives of the project:
-Training of adults who serve palliative care,
– Education of patients’ relatives who have to look after their patients,
-Renewing their knowledge in the context of lifelong learning principles of those who do this work in hospices.
-To facilitate the business life of people who want to do this job,

Methodology:
-The kick-off and final transnational meetings of the project will be held in Turkey. Each partner will hold one transnational meeting at their countries. In addition to those meetings, skype meetings will be held among partners periodically.
-Intellectual outputs will be reviewed at each meeting.
-All documents will be uploaded to the cloud system. Each partner will upload their own documents to the cloud and will be able to access any document.
-Each intellectual output will have a lead partner. Output leaders will be chosen according to their expertise in the subject of the output.
-All partners will contribute to each intellectual output. During the preparation of the outputs, the target group will always be considered. The language of educational materials will be clear and understandable. Therefore, medical terms will be avoided. Videos will not be too long and boring.
-For communication tools, E-mail, WhatsApp, Skype, the phone will be used.

A digital platform will be established for open and distance education to be provided at the KLU Continuing Education Center. This platform will serve as a new generation online virtual meeting and distance learning tool. Trainers and the target group will be able to connect to the platform from any location where the Internet is available. They will be able to connect from their smartphones as well.
In this platform, virtual meetings can be held, perform open and distance education in virtual classrooms, share the educational contents or presentations. They will be able to focus on the main content and work. Developed educational materials for the virtual classes will make the training for low skill-adults more fun. The educators will be able to create virtual meeting rooms on the digital platform and help trainees individually.

Through the internet via the digital platform;
– Communicate with the participants in voice, text and video.
– Share documents,
– Give open and distance education,
– Quickly share presentations,
– Contact with adult trainees in a short time,
– Make presentations more functional more effective,
– Trainees will be able to record the provided lesson for re-use,
– Can share the computer screen or draw it for explanations,
– Form a questionnaire or participate in the survey,
– Organize activities such as meetings, seminars and conferences with trainees.
– Training contents can be easily published, created virtual classes, and trainees’ performances can be monitored continuously regardless of time and place.

Number and Profile of Participants:
The number of participants in the pilot course will be determined. The virtual class size will be maximum 15 in the pilot program. Multiplier events will be determined by the number of participants. 50 people will be surveyed in each country. The target group of the questionnaires will be adults, palliative patients, patient relatives and the elderly people. A total of 250 people will be surveyed. The analysis of these surveys will be carried out by APEC.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 254615 Eur

Project Coordinator

KIRKLARELI UNIVERSITESI & Country: TR

Project Partners

• Sinergia Società Cooperativa Sociale
• APEC Egitim Danismanlik Ltd.
• “MARIE CURIE ASSOCIATION – MCA” BRANCH SMOLYAN
• MUNICIPIUL FAGARAS
• ANKARA AILE ve SOSYAL HIZMETLER IL MUDURLUGU
• WYZSZA SZKOLA EKONOMII I INNOWACJI W LUBLINIE
• Millî Egitim Bakanligi Hayat Boyu Ogrenme Genel Mudurlugu