Austausch und gemeinsames Lernen zur Entwicklung eines praxisorientierten, multitkulturellen Leitfadens zur Neugründung von Palliativdiensten Erasmus Project

Project Title

Austausch und gemeinsames Lernen zur Entwicklung eines praxisorientierten, multitkulturellen Leitfadens zur Neugründung von Palliativdiensten

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 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

Context
The second most common cause of death within the EU is the cancer disease (2 of 10). It is a number that will clearly increase with the aging process. Concerning disparities in care structures for cancer patients can be identified among the EU-members, whereas on EU-level altogether existing nursing services cannot adequately respond to this specific care-need (European Commission, DG Health & Consumers).
The demand for hospice care is constantly increasing! One possible solution for this is the establishment of hospice units.
However, this is complicated as within the training of health- and social-professionals this topic is poorly taught, if taught at all. On top of that in many cultures Dying and Death are still considered to be taboo issues. Moreover, palliative care per definition calls for the collaboration of multidisciplinary health-care teams but also for inter-institutional cooperation of organisations with different professional background. Consequently for the establishment of palliative care services a multi-modal and comprehensive approach is needed: a learning process that is independent from a specific field of work or profession.
Through this project and guidelines for establishing palliative care units, we offer a practice-oriented learning tool which transmits basic know-how and core competencies independently from professional background. In the future the guide will be used by the project partners, so that the developed materials, products represent a significant added value for the organisations, and thus significantly improving the starting position.
Objectives
Improving palliative care within the EU through a practice-oriented education regarding the establishment of hospice-care units for different groups of people in connection with the issue, in short: to spread the idea of palliative care in Europe and to facilitate the establishment of hospice units in particular.
Partner
The main criterion for the selection of partners was the expertise required in a particular field of work: inpatient hospice care (DE), ambulatory hospice care (PL) elderly care service (RO) as well as church communities which have a social mandate (PT) and an educational institution (ES ).
Main activities, methodology
Within the Kick-off event in March 2014, the projects procedures were clearly. Four learning and teaching events were held by the experts from the five partner countries from May 2015 to February 2016 on following topics “Forms of hospice services”, “Employee management”, “Communication with stakeholders” and “Dying in a cultural context”. In order to make the process as smooth as possible, further 2 international projectteam meetings took place along the two learning and teaching events.
Between these one-week events of knowledge-transfer, each of the partners wrote parts of the guide, which were subsequently didactically revised by the Spanish project partner. After completion, the dissemination of the contents was ensured by local multiplier events in Germany, Spain, Poland and Portugal, as well as a European conference in Romania.
The overall focus was on the development of network structures in order to deepen European contacts and to enable the intercultural exchange of knowledge on an equal footing.
Results
The five partner institutions have identified as a common result a multicultural and practice-oriented guide to the establishing palliative care units. The guide is a collection of all the project results and a first handbook on the establishment and improvement of palliative services as well as the sign of all advertising events for the project. The guide: “Pro Hospice: Multicultural and practice-oriented guide for the establishment of palliative services” was drafted by specialists from all project partner countries. The content is divided into four chapters and describes the respective situation in the countries of Germany, Romania, Poland and Portugal.
The results of the project were published on the website www.pro-hospiz.eu, the website itself being a result of the project as it offer freely accessible knowledge, the guideline in 6 languages and the possibility to speak to contact project partners.
Impact
The project “Pro Hospiz” contributes to the European integration through the promotion of the topic “hospice” and the creation of sustainable structures supporting for the terminally ill.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 119785,56 Eur

Project Coordinator

Diakoniezentrum-Pirmasens & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Fundatia Crestina Diakonia Filiala Sfantu Gheorghe
• Fundacja Podlaskie Hospicjum Onkologiczne
• UNIVERSIDADE DA CORUNA
• Deutsche Evangelische Kirchengemeinde zu Porto