This project aims to identify the barriers and facilitators for healthcare professionals' participation in work life and to develop a guideline and digital educational materials for HCPs who would like to work abroad. This helps both target groups as HCPs for equal access and transition to the labor market and the healthcare institutions directly providing the health care services and vocational educational centers in this field via the career guidance. The sustainability of the project will be ensured through the digital educational platform developed under this project and through the new cooperation to be formed for the future projects during and after the project. These outputs would create upskilling pathways and improve the accessibility and increase the take- up of adult education. All these would be a great influence on integration of migrants and immigrants in the healthcare professional sector. In addition, this project contributed to the creation and development of transnational networks and to foster synergies between partners at local, regional, national and international level for improving the policies.
The shortage of healthcare workers and professionals (HCP) is a common problem seen worldwide. In this aspect, the HCP needs to migrate from one country to another country to meet the needs in such a shortage in this field. At that point, the qualification of healthcare professionals at both technical and social level is very crucial to provide the high-qualified service to labor market needs. Moreover, the entry and equal access of such a labor market is the first step to foster the HCP. Taking into account the research, it is seen that there is a deficiency in the knowledge on the solutions for the problems encountered during the entry of professional work life abroad. Therefore, there is a need to develop a guideline for helping the HCPs who are planning to work abroad at European Union (EU) level and international level.