Arbeitswelt 2020 – psychosoziale Folgen des Strukturwandels der Arbeit im europäischen Vergleich – effiziente Instrumente für eine Salutogenese in Unternehmen und Organisationen, die im Bereich der Alten- und Krankenpflege tätig sind Erasmus Project

Project Title

Arbeitswelt 2020 – psychosoziale Folgen des Strukturwandels der Arbeit im europäischen Vergleich – effiziente Instrumente für eine Salutogenese in Unternehmen und Organisationen, die im Bereich der Alten- und Krankenpflege tätig sind

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 addressing more than one field

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Social dialogue; Health and wellbeing; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

Far-sighted strategies support jobs in the health sector, was the guiding principle of the project. With this in mind, thanks to cooperation between education experts, specialists in psychological preventive measures, social scientists, workforces and managements of enterprises and organizations engaged in health care and care for the elderly, educational building blocks should be established which can then be applied to the training and further training of personnel engaged in care for the sick and elderly.
To ensure that these building blocks conform exactly to the project concept, surveys should first be conducted among the managements and employees of companies and organizations engaged in care for the sick and elderly.
The results of these surveys have been evaluated and, on the one hand, transposed to training modules for the above purposes and tested with the project partners, and on the other hand recommendations for the political and legislative sphere was generated. The project was accompanied by Barbara Steffens, minister of health NRW and Sabine Verheyen MdeP and first dialogues already took place. www.arbeitswelt2020.de
What is new here is that employment conditions in various European countries are taken into account, ensuring a broad satisfaction of the actual needs of persons specifically affected.
The desired cooperation between employees and their managements led to the result in a model procedure for start finding solutions to the question of healthy working conditions in a sector where the health quality of jobs requires improvement.
Such a procedure can be applied to other sectors and can indicate to the social partners ways and means of creating jobs with healthy working conditions.
First of all, the needs of employees have been surveyed and evaluated by regional partners in collaboration with three KMU’s in each area and during international workshops, which collated the results.
The evaluation provided recommendations for the enterprises involved, which will then offer additional vocational training to employees in the health sector.
Consequently, training measures for employees in the health sector were implemented during the project and, in a subsequent test phase, their results were assessed and it was decided which of these results can serve as a European recommendation and which regional characteristics must be taken into account in the future in the partner countries.
We assumed that these results, already been evaluated and tested under the project as a curricular recommendation in cooperation with the school of nursing at the workers charitable institution in Heinsberg, will provide recommendations for initial training in the health and care for the elderly sectors.
Apart from personal-rated outputs suggestions for structural improvements for enterprises in the health sector were considered as suggestions for starting talks with the political sphere and for social dialogue with partners.
Here too, the specific characteristics of each country were identified and considered separately.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 211972 Eur

Project Coordinator

Bildungs- und Begegnungsstätte der KAB und CAJ im Bistum Aachen e.V. & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Europäisches Zentrum für Arbeitnehmerfragen
• Pactul Regional Nord-Vest pentru Ocupare si Incluziune Sociala
• Arbeiter-, Freizeit- und Bildungsverein
• CSC Verviers
• Europejski Dom Spotkan – Fundacja Nowy Staw
• MTU EESTI TOOKUSIMUSTE KESKUS
• AWO Pflege gGmbH