Our team was last week a part of three submited Horizon 2024 projects.

First is the CACE-EU Co-creating Accessible Care in Europe – Enabling Underserved Families with aim to improve access to health and care services – including preventive, primary and secondary care – for families in vulnerable situations by implementing a family navigation program to facilitate and optimize health and social care accessibility and usage and with that to improve health outcomes for these populations.

Call: HORIZON-HLTH-2024-CARE-04-04-two-stage
(Access to health and care services for people in vulnerable situations (Two stage – 2024))

Second, People@Heart: Personalised, Predictive, and Participatory Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in a Learning Healthcare System has the main goal to implement a dynamic, Personalised, Predictive, and Participatory Prevention strategy to CVD and design a sustainable and scalable Learning Healthcare System, the spearhead being real-world evidence-based strategies for individualised primary prevention of CVD in both primary and secondary care settings, contextualised to diverse European healthcare systems.

Call: HORIZON-HLTH-2024-STAYHLTH-01-two-stage
(Staying Healthy (Two stage – 2024))

Third, BridgeToFertility New therapeutic tools for non-receptive endometrium aim to provide a personalized approach to studying unexplained infertility and develop an artificial intelligence (AI) tool for predicting fertility status and treatment potential.

Call: HORIZON-HLTH-2024-TOOL-05-two-stage
(Tools and technologies for a healthy society (Two stage – 2024))

We keep our fingers crossed for positive feedback!

The meeting of the international network DIPEx international, 18 – 21 September in Hluboka nad Vltavou, Czech Republic, is over and we are glad that today we could present our first impressions from doing interviews about the system of care for adolescents with emotional and behavioral problems and about narcolepsy.

Thank you for the great feedback and we look forward to further interviews!

The 3rd edition of the Training School take place in Wiesbaden, Germany in September 18-21, 2023 hosting 24 participants from 14 countries (Moldova, Serbia, Austria, Malta, Germany, Iceland, Estonia, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Bulgaria, Turkey, Poland, Azerbaiyan) as an outcome of our collaboration within cost action ERNST #CA19113 (https://cost-ernst.eu/). This enriching event is tailored for healthcare professionals and students, providing a unique opportunity to learn from top trainers from across Europe. Prof. Reinhard Strametz (Wiesbaden, Germany) introduce participant to the second victim phenomenon and prof. Jose Joaquin Mira (FISABIO Alicante, Spain) present various approaches to support second victims. Participants could discuss with frontliners providing support to second victims like Eva Potura from Austria (https://www.secondvictim.at/), Stephan Bushuven (NOTIS e.V.) and Susanne Heininger (PSU-Akut e. V., https://www.psu-akut.de/#about) from Germany.  Thanks to Sofia Guerra Paiva (NOVA, Lisabon Portugal) training manual is available online (https://trainingmanual.cost-ernst.eu/) and thanks to Joana Raquel Chaves Fernandes anybody could pass a training online (https://course.cost-ernst.eu/). Our team participated on preparation of these trainings and serve as trainers.

Today in Bratislava, the Slovak HBSC team presented the key findings from the latest national report of the HBSC study at a press conference in the presence of experts and journalists.

If you want to learn more, the national report is available online at hbscslovakia.com

On September 6th, 2023, Physical activity-related injuries prevention in adolescents (PARIPRE) workshop and PARIPRE Project Final Meeting took place in Prešov, Slovakia.

The goal of the meetings were to discuss the current state of the project and further steps needed to ensure successful project completion.

We are glad that we could be there!

https://www.paripre.eu/
https://www.pulib.sk/web/kniznica/elpub/dokument/Bakalar2

The publication entitled Competencies for Clinical Practice in the field of Patient Communication serves as background and teaching material for future medical professionals. The text is structured to bring theoretical knowledge about the topic, current research findings, and practical tips for training skills in practice. It provides clear information on the individual parts of the training, which can be completed at the UPJŠ Medical Faculty. It is intended for general medicine and dental medicine students to deepen their knowledge and acquire missing skills in medical communication, which are evidence-based and research-validated skills that have a demonstrable positive impact on patient communication. 

The publication is in Slovak language.

You can download it here.

On 27-28 June 2023, another meeting took place in Lisbon, Portugal, in a project that addresses the issue of secondary victims in healthcare, i.e. healthcare professionals who have been involved in an adverse event or harm to a patient’s health and have themselves suffered harm as a result. Representatives from 13 European countries, including Slovakia, participated in the working group on training existing and future health professionals and developing support programs for second victims. The meeting focused on assessing the progress of the working group in its activities, planning the next training school, and developing metrics for evaluating support programs for health professionals who have been involved in an incident where a patient’s health has been or may have been compromised.

Learn more about the project here: www.cost-ernst.eu.

The RIVER-EU project has undertaken communication workshops in all target countries to better evaluate and understand the local context and current project situations in each area; most recently in Slovakia working with marginalized Roma communities.

Read more in the latest newsletter.https://river-eu.org/vaccine-equity-and-effective-communication-why-it-matters/

Following the successful cooperation in the H2020 RIVER-EU project (https://river-eu.org/), members of the research team for UPJŠ met with the principal investigator assoc. prof. Danielle Jansen to discuss the development of further cooperation and the preparation of a new proposal for Horizon Europe. If successful, we will have the opportunity to build on the RIVER-EU project and further improve the availability of health care for vulnerable groups.

On 20th of June members of DIPEx Slovakia met with colleagues from DIPEx Netherlands to discuss points for potential future collaboration including further training in qualitative analysis, comparisons of existing or planned modules and preparation of project proposal for Horizon Europe program.

If you want to learn more about DIPEx project, visit https://dipexinternational.org/