Supporting attractiveness of health and social care professions in regions Erasmus Project

Project Title

Supporting attractiveness of health and social care professions in regions

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: Regional dimension and cooperation; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation

Project Summary

Project SHAKER (fully named as Supporting attractiveness of health and social care professions in regions) arose from the initiative of 3 European regions – the Moravian-Silesian Region (CZ), the Great Eastern Region (FR) and the Lubelskie Voivodeship (PL) – as the follow-up of the previously set, functional and long-lasting cooperation among them. Taking into consideration European population aging, not only in the above mentioned regions there are concerns about nursing and health professions development. For this reason, the 3 regions decided to focus on this subject as all of them remark shortages in health and social care professions and have difficulties in attracting people to this branch. A similar situation occurs in the Gelderland Province, so the Dutch region decided to join the project. The difficulties in attracting people to nursing, social care and health vocational training and education, as well as lack of the qualified and skilled workers in this sector seem to be due to the growing needs of the aging societies, low salaries and hard, time-consuming character of these professions. Therefore, the regional administrations and the vocational schools from these regions have decided to face this challenge together.
Project objectives are primarily aimed at the direct exchange of good practice; sharing the experience to identify solutions implemented in other EU regions, which could be experimented on local and regional levels and to get a know-how and knowledge about new initiatives, tools, instruments and strategies to promote health and social care trainings and professions. The main interest will be especially focused on: how to promote health and social care professions among youth and people looking for a career change; how to avoid schools’ drop outs; how to facilitate the transition from the school’s environment into labour market and how to encourage people to stay in this branch and support them, as well as the institutions employing them.
Project partners are the regional authorities represented by officers and executives responsible for/operating in the fields of health and social care, education and labour market. Other project partners involved are the vocational schools, aimed at the health and social care fields of study and their representatives from the school management and/or career advisors. Last, but not least, the project counts also with the participation of the representatives of the local institutions and organisations from the health and social care sector as associated partners.
The project activites consist of the short-term joint staff training events, which are planned to be held in each partner region, 4 in total. Participants of these events are supposed to be: the officers and executives from the regional authorities, and the schools representatives from the partners´s vocational schools. Plus, there will also be other representatives of local organisations and institutions from health and care sector involved. These events are supported by the transnational meetings of the regional coordinators, which ensure the continuity of the project progess on the sufficient level. And finally, the local meetings of regional coordinators with the other regional project participants will be held regularly during the project realisation, helping the participants to deal with all possible problematic issues and keeping all project activites run smoothly, thanks to the participants´ feedback and evaluation.
Planned results and impact of the project will be both, tangible and transferable. The tangible result will be the handbook of the good practices and recommendations, concerning the best tools or strategies possible for the implementation in the field of health and social care sector to make those more attractive. Moreover, the handbook will present digital tools that might be used in the medical and social training and in the work environment by the professionals. This tangible deliverable will be created and disseminated among all interested institutions and administrations from the mentioned sector in all 4 regions. The knowledge and experience gained during the project activities will be transferred to other local institutions, regional administrations and vocational schools during the local and dissemination meetings organized in each region. In addition, we will aim to promote/make accessible the handbook using digital tools such as a webinar or vlog, to stimulate its usage. All in all, this collaboration in an international environment will allow to deepen existing mutual cooperation among the participating European regions, and to create a new network of health and social care institutions, potential bearers of the future European projects.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 167970 Eur

Project Coordinator

Moravskoslezský kraj & Country: CZ

Project Partners

• Stredni zdravotnicka skola a Vyssi odborna skola zdravotnicka, Ostrava, prispevkova organizace
• Střední škola prof. Zdeňka Matějčka, Ostrava-Poruba, příspěvková organizace
• WOJEWODZTWO LUBELSKIE
• Stichting BVE Oost-Gelderland
• Stichting Regionaal Opleidingen Centrum Rivor
• Szkoła Policealna – Medyczne Studium Zawodowe im. Stanisława Liebharta
• Kolegium Pracowników Służb Społecznych w Lublinie