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Digital Upskilling for healthcare professionals in Brussels

Join the DDS Map Closing conference event in Brussels or online!

DDS Map project is hosting its closing conference in Brussels next month! Making healthcare more digitally accessible, this project focusses on upskilling healthcare professionals like nurses, administrative officers and other allied professionals. Through an online course developed during the project, healthcare professionals will master the skills of using technology in their day-today life. Navigating through new software, websites and learning tools that can support them in their work.

26 June, Thursday, 09:30-16:00 CEST. The event can be attended online and in-person. 

Building on the last two years of DDS-MAP Project, this event will: 

  • Present individual and organisational self-assessments of digital literacy, resilience, service delivery, and sustainability targeting healthcare workers and allied professionals.
  • Share key resources developed that can be used by professionals working in the healthcare and allied sectors to tackle various challenges.
  • Demonstrate the usability of Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) technologies in very specific identified digital skills.
  • Explore the skills recognition pathways, such as micro-credential in different EU countries. 

Register 

Agenda

08:45

Registrations

9:30-9:45

Welcoming Remarks

Professor John Wells, South East Technological University, Waterford 

Thomas Bignal, EASPD

9:45-10:15

Policy Keynote: 

Dr. Petronille Bogaert, Policy Officer, Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety, Unit C3 – State of Health, European Commission.

10:15-11:30

Panel Discussion:Future of Digital Skills in European healthcare

Moderator: Professor John Wells, South East Technological University, Waterford 

  • Federica Margheri, Executive Director European Health Management Association (EHMA)
  • Andreas Dalluege, Project lead, DDS-MAP, IBK Management Solutions
  • Professor Dominika Vrbnjak, University of Maribor, Faculty of Health Sciences
 

11:30 – 12:00

Question and Answer Session

12:00-13:30

VR Demonstration booth opens with Buffet Lunch

Location: Ground floor foyer

13:00 – 14:00

Lunch Break

14:00-15:00

Workshop: Pan-European micro credentials framework - skill recognition pathways for medical and allied professionals

Moderator: Professor Beata Dobrowolska, Head of the Chair of Integrated Nursing Care, Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical University of Lubli.

  • Dr. Helen Murphy, Head Faculty of Education & Lifelong Learning, South East Technological University, Waterford 

  • Dr Adriano Friganovic, President European Specialist Nurses Organisation (ENSO) 

  • Fiorna Timmins, Head of School at the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems, University College Dublin

  • Professor Dr. Martina Smolic, Vice Dean, Science and post graduate studies, University of Osijek.

 

15:00-16:00

Lesson learned and What’s Next!

Open Mic moderated by Dr. John Wells 

16:00

End of conference

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