4 organizations from 4 different countries will work together in behalf of the project; Croatia: Skola za medicinske sestre Vrapce Slovenia: Srednja zdravstvena sola Ljubljana Turkey: Gumushacikoy Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi Germany: Seniorenzentrum St. Marien. Rationale: It was written in order to solve the problems of healthworkers in dressing the wounds (especially bedsores). The decubitus is one of the worst problems from which the bedridden patients suffer and affecting the healthworkers, patients, their relatives and the caregivers. Our current situation analysis shows that chronic wound problems are chronic health problems. The extent to which patients are influenced psychologically is quite high. Our project, which is prepared due to the problems experienced by our vocational and hospital administrators during the training of students, aims minimizing the troubles stemming from a social problem. Under Key Action 2, our project aims creating a more modern, dynamic and professional treatment area. The institutions in the project will be able to integrate good practices and new techniques into their daily activities. Institutions operating in different fields or in other socio-economic (health, economics, education, social) sectors will cooperate, create an awareness about projects, and present sustainable outputs that respond to individual needs. In summary, our planned activities for these outputs are; 1. To cooperate with foreign institutions in order to share experiences, 2. To develop an innovative approach to wound care, dressing techniques and prevention of infections, 3. To provide formal education for school learners and non-formal education for other participants, 4. To certify studies with the Europass certificates, 5. To provide multilingualism through cultural activities 6. To encourage social entrepreneurship for learners 7. To develop European Citizenship awareness There are 2 types of mobilities; Transnational meetings: Each partner will be visited by 2 participants from each institution. Not only the dressing techniques but also the cultures of the partners will be observed in thes meetings. The intellectual outputs will be discussed and the distribution of duties will be done. Learning/Teaching/Training Activities: 5 students from our school and 5 students from Slovenian partner will participate into this activity in a hospital that our Turkish partner arrange for 5 days. Cultural visits will be also planned in this activity. The objectives of our project are: 1. Within the scope of our project, it will be ensured that 10 learners gain new skills directly by acquiring education and training in this area, 2. Nearly 50 participants will see different approaches in different countries on wound care ,3. Nearly 300 patients will be treated on the whole project process, 4. 5 different country cultures will be introduced, 5. Cultural visits will be held, 6. Nearly 50 people will have a chance to recognize a different foreign language, 7. Career guidance for 10 learners will be made, 8. 5 separate institutions will gain experience in strategic development, corporate governance, leadership, quality of learning and internationalization, 9. Entrepreneurship will be provided by innovation and new approaches 10. One project manual (with a printing adjective minimum of 300) will be prepared, 11. A web page will be created 12. A YouTube channel will be created 13. The manual will be sent 200 different institutions. The students participants will be selected according to the criteria determined by project board of management among 3rd or 4th grade , succesfull, socaible, having language skills students from relevant areas of schools. The participants for transnational meetings will be selected among the vocational teachers, English speaking teachers or medical staff of partners having bachelors degree. Multipliear events will be held in each partner country to introduce the project outputs. While managing the project, project management team, monitoring evaluation team, financial audit team will be established. All partners will have one member in these teams.A collaborative and taskbased methodology will be followed. The utmost importance will be given to the work and especially to ensure access by all. All research and statistics will be carried out under the control of our Assessment Specialistç In the long term, our project will create a new application for wound care and will relieve suffering. A scientific resource will be provided, which will be used in the next academic work of the participants. However, since employees and learners will receive training and gain new welfare, they will also expand the number of unemployed persons during service. Psychological, economic and social benefits, which are the main objective of our project, will enable us to benefit for many years because it is a human investment, especially showing that the impact rate of our project is high.
Strengthening vocational competences in vocational education and training, developing institutional partnerships for creating effective learning through challenges in teaching and promoting learning in the workplace were relevant priorities of this project, with the topics - Health and Welfare, Learning and teaching, Cooperation between educational institutions and employers and EU Citizenship. Four international partners who worked within the project were gathered: School for Nurses Vrapče, Zagreb,Croatia (coordinator) and partners Secondary Medical School Ljubljana, Slovenia, Seniorenzentrum St. Marien, Dorsten, Germany and Gumushacikoy Mesleki ve Teknik Anadolu Lisesi, Turkey. The aim of our project was transfer of new knowledge and skills in the chronic wound dressing techniques to tackle this major health and social problem. Focus of project was treatment and care of chronic wounds for the purpose in an attempt to help to patients in preventing the onset, exacerbation of existing chronic wounds and shortening recovery time by modernizing learning and teaching about chronic wounds and transferring the knowledge in practice. Goal were achieved through the cooperation with health experts such as doctors, nurses, nutritionists, physiotherapists and pharmacists. The results we have achieved can be classified as: - Concrete and main intellectual output of project activities and cooperation is the Manual on Modern Care of Chronic Wounds in five languages. It is intended to medical school students, carers, staff being trained in care of chronic wounds and patients and their family members as a counsel in the disease. The Manual for modern wound care is the first such manual in the field to be designed as an interactive e-Manual and is available free of charge, to download or read, on the website https://idtwound.com/ and learning platforms. Its innovative is reflected in the possibility of acquiring knowledge and skills in a parallel way. In the same time about described treating and dressing techniques a video film made in a real situation with all the procedures and explanations of the expert can be seen. By links who leading to pages where the information is updated regularly can be find latest achievements on care of chronic wounds. The user can immediately test his knowledge. Its electronic design allows additions to new materials without significant additional costs. -Learning and training for the purpose of professional development by seeing current ways of care of chronic wounds on-site in different countries. At the same time by transferring the new practice into their own work environment, they added a distinctive innovation to their institution. -Improving personal and pedagogical competencies through the improvement of language, communication, presentation and IT skills, through new forms and methods of learning and teaching, through the development of social skills and teamwork skills, through learning about different cultures and customs and through strengthening self-confidence for new challenges - Willingness of experts who facing challenges in the treatment of chronic wounds to participate in project resulted in closer connection between employers and education. Their involving and our students involving, a threefold goal was achieved: a) we ensured contemporary practice for professional development of participants b) the basis of the Manual are the latest knowledge in treatment and care of chronic wound c) we ensured effective education for future nurses - A project website has been created in five languages https://idtwound.com/ where visitors can be informed about the activities and results of the project. - Through various project activities, approximately 1200 stakeholders from students, their parents and teachers of medical schools, staff and patients of health care institutions, staff and users of nursing homes, health care workers' associations, adult education institutions, pharmaceutical companies were involved and policy makers in education and health. The quality of the partnership and the activities we carried out during the project enabled us to achieve results. Four transnational meetings were held, one in each country, to observe and learn about chronic wound care on site and to analyse progress, discuss results, plan further activities, resolve of outstanding issues and develop a quality partnership with partners in "live". A one short-term mobility of learning, teaching and training was held in which 5 students from Croatia and 5 students from Slovenia participated in order to adopt new and improve existing knowledge and skills in the field of treatment and care of chronic wounds. The strongest messages in each state were sent with four Multiplier events. The gathered guests from the region were presented with the Manual, implemented activities and results, a modern approach to the treatment of chronic wounds and effective ways of learning and teaching.