Academy for European Neurosurgical Excellence through Innovation and Diversity Erasmus Project

Project Title

Academy for European Neurosurgical Excellence through Innovation and Diversity

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 : Knowledge Alliances for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

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Project Summary

AENEID is a new educational paradigm that will revolutionize the field of Neurosurgery. It is a pilot project that will improve the way of selecting, training and assessing European Neurosurgery residents, creating a new generation of excellent physicians who can operate as talented and compassionate neurosurgeons, utilizing the most innovative technologies to serve patients better.AENEID will build a European network among neurosurgery residents and staff from European Centres of Excellence (under EANS guidance), leading simulation companies and university experts in psychology, ethics, clinical empathy and communication.Thanks to this unprecedented path (composed of teaching from the leading EU university masters combined with top-notch simulation and cadaver lab training), European neurosurgeons will excel in terms of performance, clinical empathy and self-confidence, to foster the “patients’ safety first” concept. Ten junior residents (from ten different Neurosurgery Centers of Excellence) will enter AENEID to obtain a licence to operate on humans after completing a patient-free training; afterwards they will enter a defined rotation schedule across the European subspecialty centers of excellence. Trainees will also receive specific education to improve their humanistic/soft skills to become better doctors. Progress will be tracked through innovative methods (learning curves at simulators and cadaver workstations). Simulation companies will refine their prototypes, to make more realistic simulators.This holistic approach will let us unravel the personality traits of the candidates with the highest chances to excel in this profession as well as find the best ways to allow all candidates to develop their potential.This project aims to promote a new educational approach that may be implemented in a full-time residency program to standardise neurosurgical training across Europe. AENEID could also be replicated and applied to other healthcare fields in the future

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 973267 Eur

Project Coordinator

FONDAZIONE IRCCS ISTITUTO NEUROLOGICO CARLO BESTA & Country: IT

Project Partners

• UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN
• LES HOPITAUX UNIVERSITAIRES DE GENEVE
• CAE HEALTHCARE GMBH
• AEGIS SRL
• ALDER HEY CHILDRENS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST
• PECSI TUDOMANYEGYETEM – UNIVERSITY OF PECS
• MEDIZINISCHE UNIVERSITAT INNSBRUCK