The aim of the Project “Medical Information Literacy ” is to develop innovative international, professional continuing education programme based on the methods used by andragogy and to develop methodological materials (e-book) addressed to lecturers. The overriding goal of the Project is to increase the level of skills and abilities of the professionals working in libraries and information centre, to enhance their ability to fulfill the public international needs thus promoting the development of educated and knowledgeable society. Results expected during the project and on its completion:1) Innovative international, professional continuing education programme based on the methods used by Andragogy. The programme will be consisted of three parts: the basics of medical and health information searching; special health and medical information resources and evidence-based medicine. The programme will be approbate and evaluated by all partner organizations. The programme, thematic and lessons plans will be available online. 2) Methodological materials addressed to lecturers - e-book will be available online. The Project results would address the following parties: - Various types of library specialists from public, school, college, university and hospital libraries;- Healthcare sector professionals who are interested in reliable information for work purposes;- Health science lecturers who are interested in information for ensuring the study process;- European medical information specialists who plan to develop and/or to teach similar training programmes.Project participants are:1. Rīga Stradiņš University - a coordinator2. National Library of Latvia - a partner organization3. Lithuanian University of Health Science - a partner organization4. Tartu University Hospital - a partner organization5. Tallinn University - a partner organizationDuring the project, the achievements of the MIL project will be reinforced at local, regional, national and European levels through the on-going activities and communication about them ( social media, articles, involvement of experts and industry specialists, professional associations, etc.). Publicly accessible online materials and tools will be available not only in national languages of the participating countries but also in English, which will enable any user on European or international level to apply them. Furthermore, the developed materials could also be adapted to the needs of any other country or region.Project duration: 26 months (October, 2019 - November 2021)Project Total Grant: 141,815.00 EUR

Using advanced experience, medical research progress, and international know-how, the TeamPerMed project empowers the University of Tartu together with Tartu University Hospital to form the independent Centre for Personalised Medicine - TeamPerMed. This Center of Excellence (CoE) will become a multi-disciplinary unit integrating expertise in Genomics, IT, Clinical Medicine, and Socio-Economic Analysis. It will create a scalable framework for developing clinical guidelines and clinical decision support (CDS) tools that can be effectively integrated into EU healthcare systems. With the guidance from the leading expert partners, Erasmus Medical Centre and the University of Helsinki, a vibrant network of associated stakeholders, and the support of EC and the Republic of Estonia, TeamPerMed will become a recognized regional/EU leader in translating genomic and electronic health data to prevent the development of chronic or hereditary disease and offering high-quality personalized medical care. TeamPerMed will stimulate digital transformation in healthcare by using available databases and electronic health records to develop AI tools and protocols effective for prevention/early identification of individual health risks and their consecutive treatment. TeamPerMed CoE intellectual outputs including technology, tools, knowledge, and innovative healthcare practices, will boost Estonia’s and Europe’s competitiveness in the emerging personalised medicine sector, improving the quality of healthcare, prolonging longevity and maximizing health of European citizens, and bringing the advantages of future digital medicine to our citizens already today. The TeamPerMed Center will become an internationally recognized leader in the areas of personalized medicine and customized healthcare contributing directly to a better physical and mental wellbeing and indirectly to social and spiritual wellness, opening the door to a more harmonious society and paving the way for the ‘next generation

Background: Breast cancer treatment is complex, incorporating all modern day treatment options which means that many different professions are involved in this pathway. However it is widely known that the patients’ care and service pathway associated with breast cancer through early detection, diagnostic procedures and treatments to the follow- up phase is still discontinuous. Cancer detection, diagnosis and care coordination comprise timely and appropriate care, provided by interprofessional team including medical, nursing and allied health professionals. There is a need for this kind of education both at the basic education level of these health care professionals, in-house training of cancer clinics and learning materials for independent continuous professional development (CPD). An online learning package is a great resource to resolve the issue at some level.Objectives, methods to achieve them and outcomes of the project:Objective 1. (IO1) To review and create evidence based knowledge about interprofessional breast cancer care and treatments. For this purpose, methodology of integrative literature review, observational study and qualitative questionnaire study are used. As a result, the project will produce new research knowledge to develop healthcare teachers’ and staff understanding about breast cancer care and therapies.Objective 2: Improving the quality of breast cancer care and therapies and health care staff education related to this.To fulfill this objective, three e-learning modules comprising of 13 ECTS credits are developed by using evidence-based approach. The pedagogical principle with the interprofessional orientation to be used in the e-learning course will also follow the same evidence based approach. Module 1/IO2 focuses on interprofessional aspects of cancer care and treatment (3 ects). Module 2/IO3 focuses on breast cancer treatments and therapies (5 ects) Module 3/IO4 focuses on ensuring patient safety in breast cancer care and therapies (5 ects). Using evidence-based approach in the development and implementation of the e-learningpackages will facilitate the development of life-long learning competences among the students and health care professionals who are taking part of the courses.Objective 3: Testing and implementing the e-learning package at the European level. For this purpose, e-learning modules created in the process will be developed, tested within the partnership, improved based on the feedback obtained from the participants, experts and the steering committee members, and made available as open access resources. This will lead to the most obvious results of the project, which is better competences related to interprofessional co-operation in breast cancer therapeutic phase among the teachers, students and health professionals who take part in the preparation and testing of the educational packages. Also, teaching and training activity C1- an intensive week will be carried out (on site + online) to introduce the course content and usage to potential users of the online course Target groups of project for IO1 to IO4. Inside the partnership: two cancer clinic nurses, biomedical laboratory scientists (n=about 30), higher education institutions staff (n=20) and students (n=about 80 annually) who will be participating, teaching and studying the topics. Outside the partnership, target groups are European (+wider globally) cancer clinics’ staff and higher education institutions teachers and students (n= several thousand in Europe only). At intensive course activity C1, there will be 15 participants who`s expenses are covered by project grant taking part on site + at least 15 participating with their own cost on site and about 10 online. In addition, HESAV (Swiss associate partner) will apply for funding from Swiss national agency Movetia to send 4 to 5 teachers for the Intensive course.Impacts: The most important impact on the participating organizations as well as on other organizations that take the e-learning package in their educational use will be the harmonization of quality and contents of education in the field of interprofessional breast cancer treatment and its safety. The e-learning package linked also to EU EPALE dissemination platform gives open access resources for education also for such educational and health care institutions who otherwise could not afford or for some other reason are not able to have that kind of learning resources. At participant level this means equal possibility for health care professionals like radiation therapists, radiographers, biomedical laboratory scientists and nurses and their educators to acquire competences on e-learning in general, interprofessional breast cancer treatment and how to ensure its safety. In addition, studying from such of e-learning materials increases health care staff and ordering clinical units’ understanding about different phases, procedures, actors and safety issues associated with breast cancer therapeutic phase.

Project Goal: The project responded to the current situation in nursing staff training, specifically the situation in the field of Moving & Handling. Although there are many VET programs in this area, their impact on the incidence of musculoskeletal injuries / disorders in nursing staff is relatively low. There is a gap in the educational and training approaches, which would bring a shift in the training and change the moving and handling stereotypes brought by the old training methodologies. The aim of the project was therefore to transfer the innovative M&H training program developed by Birmingham City University from Great Britain to 4 European countries (to the Czech Republic, Poland, Estonia and Lithuania).Partnership: The main coordinator of the project was LINET, the leading European manufacturer of hospital and nursing beds, which is also very active in the VET of nurses worldwide. Other partners were Birmingham City University as a university that developed an innovative M&H programme, two nursing associations (Czech Association of Nurses, Polskie Towarzystwo Pielegniarskie), 1 nurse education centre (Osrodek Ksztalcenia Podyplomowego Pielegniarek i Poloznych) and 2 hospitals (Hospital of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas Clinics, SIHTASUTUS TARTU ULIKOOLI KLIINIKUM).Project activities: The project analysed the current state of education in the above mentioned areas and transferred an innovative VET program to 4 countries. Seminars for trainers were carried out and the innovative M&H educational program was then pilot tested. Afterwards, dissemination events took place mainly through the implementation of local workshops and small scale meetings. Within the project, several transnational project meetings were held. At the end of the project the impacts of the program on the target group were evaluated. In general, the target group stated that the use of these new manipulation techniques with patients greatly facilitates their current work, and the transfer and enforcement of these techniques in the educational processes are seen as entirely breakthrough. The nurses evaluated the training course as very beneficial and the target group agreed that the implementation of the project will increase the effectiveness of the education, the education process will be significantly upgraded and the implementation of these techniques among the medical personnel will reduce the number of injuries of the musculoskeletal system at the nursing staff. Outputs of the project: As a result of the implementation of the project a detailed analysis of the state of the art of the above-mentioned issues was carried out in individual countries. There was also carried out a research of the impact of the educational program, which served as input for the final creation of 4 local versions of the training course.The project ran in line with the scheduled timetable and was successfully completed in September 2017.