Research for all palliative care clinicians Erasmus Project

Project Title

Research for all palliative care clinicians

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills; Research and innovation

Project Summary

The rate of medical advance during 20th century was enormous, due to improvements of technology as well as new scientific discoveries. Modern palliative care, as part of the health system, has developed rapidly in western countries, then all over Europe in the last part of the twentieth century.
In the process of developing palliative care, an important role is to educate professionals and that is a concern included in all partners’ organization activity.
Although major steps in the process of integration and delivering palliative care trainings for graduated clinicians, designing competencies frames for PC professionals, introduce this clinical specialty in the university curricula, provide post university specialized programs, a SWOT analysis conducted by the consortium partners revealed low capacity to effectively read and understand research literature and few studies made in palliative care in an evidence-based clinical practice framework. As research skills are needed for lifelong learning and level of research in the formal education varies between countries and between different PC professionals/ educators the project RESPACC is aiming to include core research competences as part of the general education related to clinical practice of palliative care professionals.
The project will address the following objectives:
1: Designing effective education strategies for enhancing basic research competences across
members of multidisciplinary teams in palliative care.
2. Stimulating the development and use of innovative approaches to increase the effective uptake
evidence-based research in palliative care.
3. Increase the research capacity for a number of 48 practitioners in palliative care.
4. Raise awareness among PC clinicians regarding the importance research integration in clinical
practice
The project has an innovative approach in developing mixed intellectual outputs considering the wide access to internet, most of educational materials being available in digital format:
– research/ study report on specific palliative care competences to address the necessities of population cared- the analysis will be the main point for a whitepaper paper disseminated to stakeholders by EAPC
– developing a handbook for introducing palliative care clinicians to critical reading and academic writing mixed with webinars – the curriculum developed will be presented in a short term learning event attended by 26 palliative care professionals
– a toolkit for guidance the palliative care professionals in developing their own research proposal – this will include videos that will provide the mentoring process with real cases;
– handbook and guidance materials for understanding qualitative and quantitative research – the curriculum will be presented in a short term face to face event and eLearning material, attended by 22 palliative care professionals
Educational materials are in English and national languages, practice based and easy to connect with daily clinical experience.
– Education and project website- where all elearning materials will be uploaded will be promoted and disseminated.
– a whitepaper with recommendations of inclusion of core research competencies into the training of Palliative Care clinicians
Specifically, the project expects the following number of direct participants from the partner countries to be attracted in the project the various activities and short-term training events:
48 trainees attending the 2 Short-term joint staff training events (“Introducing palliative care clinicians to critical reading and academic writing” and ” Translating clinical issues into research projects”;
245 participants in 4 Multiplier events. Invitations to the multiplier events may be include interested practitioners from other countries listed under Participant and Partner countries in the Erasmus+.
The long-term cooperation between partners’ organizations and their experience covering the fields of palliative care services, education and research will ensure the quality of intellectual outputs produced within the project. Regarding impact on European and international levels, a strong asset on this matter is the presence of EAPC in the RESPACC partnership. All the results will be disseminated at national level and by EAPC to the 56 member associations out of 32 countries, being applicable and transferable to other countries (through European conference, website, taskforce).

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 187913 Eur

Project Coordinator

Hospice Casa Sperantei & Country: RO

Project Partners

• EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION OF PALLIATIVE CARE
• GALILEE PALLIATIVE CARE UNIT
• UNIVERSIDAD DE NAVARRA
• UNIVERSITATEA TRANSILVANIA DIN BRASOV