PULSE project concept is built upon the understanding that with demographic changes and a Europe-wide shortage of trained nurses, the ability to move within the EU is a vital prerequisite for nurses, employers, training institutions, national organizations and businesses. PULSE aims at improvement of language, communicative and cultural competences of nurses who work or plan to work in a foreign country by using innovative methods based on digital tools for self- organized autonomous learning. Project gives solutions for quality performance of nurses’ work by giving them with tools to opening their abilities for practical language skills application and improving the attitudes, sensitivity and cultural awareness needed for successful work in a foreign country health care environment.The core issue in the project approach is to comprise both sides of the processes of migration of nurses by connecting regions and countries, both hosting foreign nurses and sending nurses abroad, not randomly but with interest to each other. Project partners’ consortium represents different stakeholders’ organisations from EU countries facing challenges in the topic of migration of nurses and comprising both sides of the processes: France, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Bulgaria, and Romania.The project activities include:- Establishing network of relevant key stakeholders and their active involvement in working meeting, consultation and exploitation events;- European survey on language, communication and intercultural competencies, needed by foreign nurses;- Descriptors of communication and language competences for nurses (following the EQF, in accordance with CEFR levels B1 and B2);- Methodological-didactic concept of e-learning course based on a new digital pedagogy and curriculum for workplace language and communication for nurses ;- E-learning course for workplace language and communication for nurses in French, Italian and Dutch, supported in Bulgarian, Romanian and Spanish, with learning content based on the real working situations of nurses; - Assessment tool for language and cultural competences;- Approbate and fine tuned training system "PULSE - Workplace language and communication for nurses".Through the variety of activities planned within the project frame, direct target groups representatives - nurses involved in, or planning mobility, VET and language learning providers, employers in the Health care sector, will be given with opportunities to increase the relevance of competences, skills and attitudes to the work place specifics. In this way project will ensure the correspondence of vocational and transversal skills to the requirements of labour market.The expected final results, both during the project lifetime and after its end, are: - Improved linguistic, communication and intercultural skills of foreign nurses relevant to the medical workplace, and thus improved employability and enhanced European competitiveness in the sector. - Improved transversal competences of nurses like: learning to learn skills and digital competences, competences for developing and strengthen own learning style, and skills for autonomous managing of learning. - Increased motivation of nurses to get involved in learning providing to them an autonomous access to innovative language learning resources and instruments for language skills testing. - Implemented innovative language learning practice in the field of vocational education and training- Improved capacities of universities, VET and language providers by delivering to them tailored products: workplace language learning didactic and materials, relevant to nurses.- Raised awareness of needs of inclusion, need to combat racism, prejudice and xenophobia, and of cultural and linguistic diversity in a professional context;- Created network of interaction between countries in the work mobility processesPULSE products will be designed and available as free on line resources so that, in practical terms, they are open for use at any level - local, regional, national, European and international, which is prerequisite for sustainability.
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