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ISEP leads European consortium e-Hospital4Future

Abr 6, 2023

Briefing

The European Union is supporting the project e-Hospital4Future with a total investment of €2.95 million to create, disseminate and implement training modules for clinical and non-clinical health professionals in a hospital environment. Led by Professor Ana Madureira from the Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, the project is expected to run for 24 months with a multidisciplinary consortium of 10 institutions from eight European countries. The project aims to elevate the education process of health professionals by combining modules of social, technical and digital skills, and intends to boost the implementation of such training programs across Europe. The project started in March 2023.


The project e-Hospital4Future - Building future through an innovated and digital skilled hospital, which aims at the creation, dissemination and implementation of training modules for clinical and non-clinical health professionals in hospital environment, is being led by Professor Ana Madureira from the Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP).

The proposal will run for 24 months and has a total investment of €2 950 491.60 (80% funded), supported by the European Union under the EU4Health programme.


The work will be carried out by a multidisciplinary consortium of 10 institutions from eight
European countries:

  • 6 universities and technology centres - ISEP (Coordination, Portugal), Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal), Hogeschool PXL (Belgium), Fundacio EURECAT (Spain), University of Naples Federico II (Italy) and Molde University College (Norway) - in charge of the methodologies and development of the training programmes.
  • 1 public health institution - Institute for Public Health of Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina - contribution to the definition of teaching needs, programme contents and implementation.
  • 3 hospitals - Centro Hospitalar Universitário de Santo António, E.P.E. (Portugal), Paula Stradina Kliniska Universitates Slimnica (Latvia) and Viesoji Istaiga Vilniaus Universiteto Ligonine Santaros Klinikos (Lithuania) - mainly responsible for implementing the courses.

E-Hospital4Future intends to elevate the education process of health professionals, combining
modules of social (soft skills), technical (hard skills) and digital skills. To this end, its
implementation was divided into 3 main phases:

  1. Assessment of learning needs - elaboration of working groups per participating country.
  2. Development of training programmes - the proposal includes around 19 courses covering social skills (e.g. leadership, stress handling, teamwork), digital (e.g. digital health, digital governance, internet of medical things) and technical (e.g. use of artificial intelligence/mixed reality in surgical context, use of pacemakers, ECMO), which will be adapted to the reality of each country/hospital.
  3. Implementation and evaluation of the courses - it is intended to implement these courses in the 3 hospitals involved and, additionally, in hospitals in Norway, Italy and Bosnia and Herzegovina.


The ambition of the project is to go beyond the status quo in the capabilities of health professionals, innovating the contents and methodologies of training programmes for the target audience. The final goal of e-Hospital4Future is to boost the implementation of this kind of training programmes all over Europe, including not only hospitals and other healthcare institutions, but also schools and universities.

The work has already started in March and theofficial kick-off meeting of the project took place on March 28th at ISEP, with the participation of elements from all partners.

 

Some pictures taken during the event can be found below.