Preparing health and social care students for the new realities of work in health and social care services
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The healthcare and social care sectors are undergoing significant transformations, driven by evolving societal needs, technological advancements, and policy changes. As the demand for inclusive and equitable healthcare services grows, there is a pressing need to prepare students with the skills required to meet these new challenges. Traditional curricula often fall short of addressing the dynamic nature of modern health and social care environments.
Within this context, the EURECO Platform and EHECADI project have come together to host this joint forum to identify how Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), healthcare providers and support and social care services can best prepare health and social care students for the evolving needs of the sector.
Designed for:
- HEIs, lecturers, and teachers;
- Students and research groups in long-term care and healthcare;
- Support service and healthcare providers.
The event aims to address the following questions:
- How can HEI for long-term care, health care and social work better prepare students for the transition to the labour market through their curriculum and final undergraduate dissertations?
- How can HEIs contribute to the inclusive transformation of local support services for people with disabilities?
- How can support service providers collaborate with HEI to further develop curricula that reflect the requirements of contemporary workplaces in transformation?
- How can healthcare and support service providers work with HEI to facilitate the recruitment and continuous in-service training of staff?
Forum venue: BluePoint Brussels, Blvd Auguste Reyers 80, 1030 Brussels
A number of grants of up to €600 are available to support the participation of those from outside Belgium. If you would like to apply to receive a grant, please indicate your interest in the application form. Please note that the receipt of a grant is not automatic and will be confirmed by a member of the EASPD team. Deadline for grant applications: 27 September. .
Programme
Day 1: 21st November 2024
08h45 | Registration and Coffee |
09h15 | Welcome
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09h20 | Keynote 1: EU Skills agenda: what does it mean for long-term care and health sectors?
Keynote 2: Addressing current societal challenges through Final International Healthcare Dissertations: EHECADI's approach
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09h50 | Panel 1: Identifying skill needs for the inclusive transformation of health and Long-Term Care Moderation: Renaud Scheuer, EASPD Speakers:
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11h00 | Coffee Break |
11h30 | Panel 2: Designing curricula and dissertations to prepare students for the labour market Moderation: EHECADI Speakers:
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12h30 | Lunch |
13h45 | Parallel workshops
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15h00 | Coffee Break |
15h30 | Panel 3: Next Steps: Boosting upskilling and reskilling of health and long-term care workers Moderation: Konstantina Leventi, EASPD Speakers:
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16h45 | Conclusions
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Day 2: 22nd November 2024
9h45 | EURECO Project Development Workshop |
12h45 | Conclusions |
About EURECO
EURECOis a European collaboration platform of academic researchers and service providers working on inclusive community planning and development of in the perspective of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). The platform originated from a joint initiative of the European Association of Services Providers for Persons with Disabilities (EASPD) and the Centre for Planning and Evaluation of Social Services (ZPE), University of Siegen, Germany to foster European theory-practice cooperation in the disability services’ sector. It was intended to develop a network of academic researchers and research affined service providers specifically interested in developing inclusive communities. Furthermore, regular meetings for platform members in a format mixing element of academic conferences and project development workshops were to be organized. In the following years, the partnership grew to include the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IASSIDD) and ZonMW.
About EHECADI
EHECADI is a European project designed to support healthcare students from different disciplines (nursing, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, and nutrition and dietetics) to address broad societal health issues such as healthcare equity, epidemic preparedness, underinvestment in healthcare workers, health needs of migrant populations.
To do this the project has developed the following materials: An online Knowledge hub which will host all of the final materials of the EHECADI project; a co-designed Virtual Community of Practice that will share knowledge between academia and other stakeholders as well as detect societal needs and steer the international final graduate dissertations towards them; a co-designed digital open course for students that will enhance responsible research, the acquisition of digital and transversal skills through the length of the degree length. The course will follow the principles of universal design and it will empower students to be global-minded citizens, more sensitized towards societal needs, and with easier access to employment; a set of guidelines for students, teachers, and institutions to support the use of the International Final Graduate Dissertation.