{"id":617,"date":"2019-04-11T08:22:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T08:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bbe-toolbox.eu\/?post_type=project&#038;p=617"},"modified":"2019-07-04T09:09:42","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T09:09:42","slug":"ellan-european-later-life-active-network","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/bbe-toolbox.eu\/project\/ellan-european-later-life-active-network\/","title":{"rendered":"ELLAN \u2013 European Later Life Active Network"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This project promoted European cooperation and exchange of innovation\nand good practice related to the ageing population and to the educational\npreparation of those that work with older people. The project reconstructed the\ndiverse educational approach by developing a European Competences Framework for\nworking with the older people, sharing innovation in teaching and identifying\nfactors that influence students in choosing to work with older people thus\nstrengthening the quality of higher education for professions providing care\nfor older people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project is to share and distribute good practice and innovation related to Ageing. The outcome of the project is better quality of higher education related to the care of people in later life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The main aim was achieved by<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>discovering older people&#8217;s thoughts on the knowledge,\nattitudes and behaviours of health and social care professionals when working\nwith older people,<\/li><li>analysing research and literature on competences\nrequired in older people&#8217;s care,<\/li><li>exploring professionals&#8217; views of desired competences\nfor all working with older people<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, the project aims\nto positively influence health and social care professionals&#8217; interest in\nworking with older people, this were achieved by<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>exploring with students of social and health care, the\nfactors that inhibit or facilitate working with older people<\/li><li>identifying and sharing innovative learning approaches\nto working with older people \u2013 exemplars of good practices across Europe.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The project directly targets educators and management staff at the\npartners and other higher education institutions in Europe. The indirect target\ngroups are the students, professional communities and older people themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The consortium conducted analyses of competencies required of personnel\nworking with older people from the viewpoint of literature, research,\nprofessionals, students and older people themselves. The results were exploited\nin the development of higher educational curricula, as well as the promotion of\na more positive vision of working with older people through national and\nEuropean networks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The European Competences Framework, along with best practice in teaching\nwill improve the quality of education for health and social care professionals\nand positively influence their motivation to work with older people. Thus, the\nimpact of ELLAN consists of better education, enhanced mobility of personnel\nand improved older people&#8217;s care in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This project has been funded with the support of the Lifelong Learning Programme of the European Union<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Project partners:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Savonia University of Applied Sciences, Finland \u2013 Project coordination<\/li><li>Karelia University of Applied Sciences, Finland<\/li><li>Liverpool John Moores University, UK<\/li><li>Medical University &#8220;Prof. Dr. Paraskev Stoyanov&#8221; &#8211; Varna, Bulgaria<\/li><li>Universidad de Granada, Spain<\/li><li>University College Cork, Ireland<\/li><li>National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece<\/li><li>Public Open University Zagreb, Croatia<\/li><li>R\u012aGA STRADI\u0145\u0160 UNIVERSITY Liep\u0101ja branch, Latvia<\/li><li>University of Maribor, Slovenia<\/li><li>Hanzehogeschool Groningen HanzeUniversity of Applied Sciences, Netherlands<\/li><li>Kauno Kolegija \/ Kaunas University of Applied Sciences, Lithuania<\/li><li>Uniwersytet Mikolaja Kopernika, Poland<\/li><li>Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey<\/li><li>University Stefan cel Mare of Suceava, Romania<\/li><li>Tartu Health Care College, Estonia<\/li><li>Instituto Polit\u00e9cnico de Set\u00fabal, Portugal<\/li><li>Scuola Universitaria Professionale della<\/li><li>Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland<\/li><li>University of Applied Sciences Hamburg, Germany<\/li><li>University College of Northern Denmark, Denmark<\/li><li>Sapienza University of Rome, Italy<\/li><li>Universita&#8217; ta&#8217; Malta\/University of Malta, Malta<\/li><li>Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus<\/li><li>Semmelweis University Faculty of Health Sciences, Hungary<\/li><li>Katholieke Hogeschool Leuven, Belgium<\/li><li>Carinthia University of Applied Sciences, Austria<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-617","project","type-project","status-publish","hentry","keyword-age-based","keyword-teaching"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbe-toolbox.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbe-toolbox.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbe-toolbox.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/project"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbe-toolbox.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/bbe-toolbox.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2265,"href":"https:\/\/bbe-toolbox.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/617\/revisions\/2265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbe-toolbox.eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}