FİRST TOUCH Erasmus Project

Project Title

FİRST TOUCH

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 vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Cooperation between educational institutions and business; Health and wellbeing; Research and innovation

Project Summary

Childbirth is an event of nature and is an important indicator of health. It can be seen that data such as maternal and infant health, cesarean section rates, midwives’ education, medical personnel per capita, place of birth are different between countries. A project has been implemented in order to make an assessment of midwifery competencies and to examine the differences affecting the way women are born. With the project, it was to bring together maternity teams from 3 countries showing different data on maternal and infant health. Our project continued for 36 months. It is planned to prepare 1 opening meeting, 6 transnational meetings, 1 project closing and dissemination symposium program, 3 transnational workshops, 6 articles and 1 birth preparation training module program.The opening meeting, 3 transnational meetings and 2 workshop program mobility meetings were held face-to-face. However, as of March 2020, due to the cancellation of international flights due to the increasing Covid-19, 6 transnational meetings could not be held, 1 workshop program was held online, and the closing meeting was organized online.
“A study Of Professional self-assessment Within the framework of an EU project of Midwives”, “comparative information, and Attitute Behaivor: assessment of midwifery and midwifery students assistantship”, “A Comparision of traditional Midwifery Practices across the Country”,”the effect of Childbirth preparation training Online Pre-fear of childbirth and childbirth”, “basic health indicators and Midwifery In Turkey, Germany and Greece”, “international confederation of Midwifery Comparison (ICM) Current qualifications and Midwifery Education in Turkey, 6 Articles with the titles “Germany and Greece” and a birth preparation training module called “Training Module For Birth Preparation” have been completed.
In total, 40 people working in the field of maternity and pregnant health took an active part in the project activities.Together with the closing meeting, 364 people working for obstetrics and gynecology and obstetrician (midwife, nurse, obstetrician, psychologist, doula) directly benefited from the project activities (workshops, closing meeting).
In the medium and long term is expected to be the team, which increase the number of birth; providing active training on the care of healthy mothers and babies before, during and after childbirth, who plays a more effective role in the field of preparation for childbirth with current and modern educational methods, developing a perspective on the psychological effects of childbirth, who acquires profession-specific, up-to-date accurate and new information, giving birth preparation training designed with a holistic point of view and respecting women’s rights at birth.
The intellectual outputs produced by the project have been presented to the literature as an academic study for all institutions providing formal and widespread midwifery education in the world to use.

Project Website

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EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 113044 Eur

Project Coordinator

Kayseri Il Saglik Mudurlugu & Country: TR

Project Partners

• International Society for Pre- and Perinatal Psychology and Medicine
• ISTANBUL DOGUMA HAZIRLIK VE DANISMANLIK HIZM.LTD.STI.
• Greek Doula Association