Strategic Partnership in Innovation and Development of Evidence-Based Healthcare Erasmus Project

Project Title

Strategic Partnership in Innovation and Development of Evidence-Based Healthcare

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: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Health and wellbeing; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

This project (SPIDER) consists of 5 members, from the Czech Republic (Applicant organisation), Portugal, the United Kingdom, Romania, and Spain, who are key European stakeholders in Evidence-Based Healthcare (EBHC) in these countries. It is a combination of partners from universities, healthcare centres and hospitals, who are focused on EBHC. The project members made initial contact thanks to the Joanna Briggs Collaboration, which is a not-for-profit organization and some project partners are members of this collaboration.

The SPIDER project was developed to address the needs of improving skills and qualifications of European project partners in EBHC and critical thinking, especially in the translation/implementation and utilization of evidence in healthcare clinical practice. The core idea of the project is to support cooperation and exchange of know-how within the unique Evidence-Based Clinical Fellowship Program (EBCFP) context. Based on the current situation, there is not a completely established educational programme which is focused on evidence translation/ implementation into practice in Europe. This means that professionals in healthcare across Europe need to improve their experience and skills with the implementation of the research evidence into their practice. It is especially important in this era when praxis in some healthcare fields lags more than 15-years behind the science. Critical thinking is a crucially important part of EHBC in our information era where is every year published in the PubMed, which is one of the relevant healthcare databases with more than million new publications yearly.

The coordinator of this project from the Czech Republic is one of few institutions in Europe who has trainers qualified to deliver the unique EBCFP, which was developed by experts from the Joanna Briggs Institute (JBI), Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Adelaide, Australia. JBI is a world leader in the field of EBHC, having developed unique EBCFP.

The key objective of this project is to decrease the gap between research and practice in healthcare and support international cooperation of professionals in healthcare. The project aims to support the development, transfer and implementation of innovative practice.

The main direct impact of the project will be on the project participants enhancement of professional skills, enhancement of academics, social and economic benefits, and networking. The indirect impact will be provided by the BPIPs, which have a significant potential to innovate current healthcare practice and thus to maintain more effective and cost-effective practice, which will benefit patients/clients and reduce the redundant economic burden of healthcare. To disseminate the project outcomes, a dissemination plan will be implemented. The plan will comprise four different lines of actions: educational dissemination, clinical dissemination, online dissemination /internet/, and press and it will give clear measures and priorities of how to spread the findings and results elaborated by the project to the target public (local, regional, national, European and international).

One of the important outcomes of the project will be to develop closer cooperation among European EBHC into strong European
consortia, to disseminate and implement EBHC in terms of evidence translation into practice.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 182764 Eur

Project Coordinator

Masarykova univerzita & Country: CZ

Project Partners

• ORDINUL ASISTENTILOR MEDICALI GENERALISTI, MOASELOR SI ASISTENTILOR MEDICALI DIN ROMANIA- FILIALA BUCURESTI
• ESCOLA SUPERIOR DE ENFERMAGEM DE COIMBRA
• CARDIFF UNIVERSITY
• INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III