Health Care Clown Pathways Erasmus Project

Project Title

Health Care Clown Pathways

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 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Health and wellbeing; Recognition, transparency, certification; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

The “Health Care Clown Pathways” project is a Strategic Partnership supporting the innovation in the Educational and Vocational Training Sector (VET).
This project has been created for the importance of the professional role of the Healthcare Clown professional in the performing arts, aimed at assist and relieve the patients’ anxiety and fear, especially children and elders, in the healthcare institutions and social care services.
This awareness has origin from experiences at European level, which demonstrate that the Healthcare Clown fosters the humanization process in the healthcare environment. Meanwhile, in different European countries, with the only exception of the France thanks to Le Rire Médecin, project’s partner, the training for the Healthcare Clown is not regulated, as it does not exist as formal qualified profession.
This project has born to provide for this gap in the training sector. The partnership is composed of Soccorso Clown Onlus (Italy) as Applicant, Fondazione Spazio Reale (Italy), Le Rire Médecin (France), Dr. Klauns (Latvia), Sykehusklovnene (Norway) and Universidade do Minho (Portugal).
Its transnational dimension is represented by the fact that the organizations already work together in the EFCHO context, which is also a project’s supporter, to qualify and to regulate the professional role of the Healthcare Clown. Also the researchers’ role of the University of Minho will be fundamental, since for several years they carry out studies in this sector and they are members of H-CRIN+, Healthcare Clowning Research International Network, that is also a supporter of the project.
The project has the following objectives:
– Designing, realizing, testing and validating an innovative training proposal, aimed at defining the competences requested to work as Healthcare Clown in a sharing and transferable manner at European level;
– Proposing the European level training standards to obtain the qualified profession as Healthcare Clown, referring to ECVET and EQF Systems.
These objectives will be achieved through the following results:
– European guidelines that include the definition of the profession of the Healthcare Clown, in terms of key competences and profession qualification according to the standard of the ECVET system (European Credit System for Vocational Education and Training) and EQF system (European Qualifications Framework).
– Methodological Framework for design and implementation of the training formal pathway, transferable at European level to achieve the Professional Qualification of Healthcare Clown, professional in the performing arts, on the basis on the EQF and ECVET Systems.
– Experimentation of some formal pathways in Italy, Latvia, Norway. The objective of this pilot courses consists in testing the course’s structure, the training objectives, the organization facilities, the training methods, the didactic materials with the aim of a final validation.
– Digital Resources Centre. It will be a web platform that will make available and accessible the results of the intellectual output, the pilot courses realized, studies and researches, tools and methods, didactic materials, audio recording and video (videos, interviews, multimedia resources) of the activities carried out, on the basis of OER (Open Educational Resources).
The beneficiaries will be adults, with marked comic talent, eclectic actors coming from different theatrical backgrounds, who have experience in working with children and adults.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 299743 Eur

Project Coordinator

Soccorso Clown Societa Cooperativa Sociale Impresa Sociale E.T.S. & Country: IT

Project Partners

• Association “Dr.Klauns”
• SPAZIO REALE GROUP Impresa Sociale ETS
• Sykehusklovnene
• Le rire médecin
• Iscte – Instituto Universitario de Lisboa
• SPAZIO REALE FORMAZIONE Impresa Sociale SRL – ETS