First Aid, Civic Engagement, Training Erasmus Project

Project Title

First Aid, Civic Engagement, Training

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Health and wellbeing; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship

Project Summary

First Aid, Civic Engagement, Training (FACET) was a project focusing on the improvement of first aid education in partner countries. In particular, the civic value of volunteers, as first aid trainers and as first aiders, was considered.
This was be achieved through a series of international meetings on the exchange of best practices in first aid training and, particularly, matters of volunteer management and training connected to first aid and how first aid can be an entry into voluntary civic commitment. These best practices were collected in a best practice brochure and, informed by this collection of practices, a practical international training of (volunteer) trainers was created and implemented in a pilot action, a train-the-trainer course. The course further helped to make the results tangible for the participating practitioners and provided support to the partner countries most in need of improving their volunteer based first aid education opportunities.

The partners participating in these exchanges came from a spectrum of backgrounds with regard to the status of civil society organisations and first aid education offered by CSOs in their countries. Most partners are established providers of qualified and certified first aid in their countries. A first group of partners have enjoyed this status for many decades, a second group, particularly from Eastern Europe, have only established their position as a first aid provider within the last 25 years, as civil society and volunteering activities weren’t possible before.
Thirdly, we have a partner organisation from North Macedonia. While active in volunteering for many years, they are still at the beginning of sustainably offering first aid training as part of their volunteer structures. In addition, certification systems for qualified first aid education aren’t as clearly defined and/or enforced in this region of the EU’s neighbourhood, thereby posing an obstacle for purely national establishment of volunteer-CSO-based first aid education.

As a result of this exchange of organisations with diverse national volunteering cultures, all participating partners gained new insights into volunteer management and training in the area of first aid, enabling them to make their methods and practices more universal than just geared toward their national target group. We consider this a strong added value in an ever more united Europe and as a contribution to work mobility for first aid professionals. Our partner from the third group benefited in particular, as the project enabled them to establish or first aid education in their volunteering portfolio.
The newly established course in North Macedonia, as well as the improvements expected in the other countries, where volunteer-based first aid education is already widely available, will advance the opportunities of quality first aid education for the general populace in the partner countries.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 98878,13 Eur

Project Coordinator

SAMARITAN INTERNATIONAL EV & Country: DE

Project Partners

• ZDRUZENIE INSTITUT ZA RAZVOJ NA ZAEDNICATA
• Latvijas Samariesu Apvieniba
• ASSOCIAZIONE PROVINCIALE DI SOCCORSO CROCE BIANCA-ONLUS
• LIETUVOS SAMARIECIU BENDRIJA
• Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund Österreichs
• Asociácia samaritánov Slovenskej republiky
• ARBEITER-SAMARITER-BUND DEUTSCHLAND EV