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Dear Readers,
As you already know, our project is now within the 6 months extension that will be ended by December 31, 2021.
The aim of the project extension was to complement, within 6 months, the existing INDEED educational intervention by a chapter on the management of dementia during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The extension chapter on which we are working at this moment focuses on the specific needs of people with dementia and their family carers brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic and how to meet them. We are also preparing information on the requirement of more intensive interprofessional communication, collaboration and coordination as well as the creation of alternative ways of service delivery in times of restricted face-to-face contact and consultation including good-practice examples.
In addition to working on this new chapter, the dissemination of project activities continued by presentations at various scientific events, as well as by participation in capitalization events. We will, therefore, highlight these events that have taken place since the previous newsletter was issued, along with the events that will follow in the remaining months until the end of this challenging project.
Lea Pfaeffel, Alexander Kurz& Georgeta Popovici
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General Assembly 4 and Closing Conference, (virtual space) Budapest, Hungary, June 10-11
The meeting took place during two very interesting and intense days of presentations and discussions, bringing together in the first day the partners from the project and in the second day the project partners and important stakeholders. A special remark - DTP project officer Johannes Gabriel highlighted that INDEED is a great success from the perspective of the DTP.
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PRESENTATIONS AT CONFERENCES, FORUMS, CONGRESSES
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1.SLOVENIAN - BAVARIAN SCIENTIFIC FORUM 2021 ORGANIZED BY BAVARIAN ACADEMIC CENTER FOR CENTRAL, EASTERN AND SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE. virtual format, May 27-28, 2021.
Our project was presented by Prof. Dr. Alexander Kurz and Lea Pfäffel and co-presented by Prof. Zvezdan Pirtošek, from the University of Ljubljana. The presentation “Interdisciplinary cooperation in dementia education?” had focus on the project goals as well as details about the online training platform, results and implications. More details at https://www.uni-regensburg.de/bayhost/aktuelles/
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INDEED AT MEDEX, ROMANIA, ONLINE EVENT, OCTOBER 23rd
INDEED project was presented to MedEx - Medicine Explained by Medical Experts, the biggest medical event organized in Romania until now, with a large participation, addressed to doctors from all specialties. Our presentation, included in the “Management of the patient with comorbidities” section from October 23 was focused on the main results - the online learning platform and the piloting workshops, as well as on the current extension phase. The presentation was highly appreciated by the participants. Please find here the link to this special event: https://med-ex.ro/
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INDEED AS GUEST AT DIFFERENT EVENTS
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1.THE 9TH INTERNATIONAL STAKEHOLDER CONFERENCE - ONLINE EVENT, JUNE 17-18, 2021
We have participated as guest at the 9th International Stakeholder Conference, Priority Area 9 of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR) hosted by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine in partnership with the Federal Ministry of Labour and the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research of the Republic of Austria, the Ukrainian Institute for International Politics, L&R Social Research and OeAD– Austria’s Agency for Education and Internationalisation. The general objective of the conference was to discuss main challenges within the Priority Area 9 field of operation, such as digitalization, social inclusion, and vocational education development.
2.WORKSHOP „THE FUTURE OF SOCIAL INNOVATION IN INTERREG 2021-2027“- JUNE 29, 2021
We have participated as guests at the workshop „The Future of Social Innovation in Interreg 2021-2027“.
#socialinterreg is an informal networking initiative of projects working with social innovation methods (following a broad interpretation of the term social innovation), having as aims: bringing projects together, showcasing results, inspiring each other for potential future projects, raising awareness for the added value of social projects in Interreg. The next program - Social Innovation Nexus - that will replace the #socialintereg one, was also presented.
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1.CAPITALISATION, SYNERGY BUILDING MEETING, GROUP 7 GOVERNANCE, MAY 27, 2021
We were present to the capitalisation synergy building meeting, group 7 – Governance with the presentation "INDEED Innovation for Dementia Care in the Danube Region", authored by Lea Pfäffel, M.Sc. and Prof. Alexander Kurz, School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich and presented by Georgeta Popovici, Communication manager. This meeting had the intention to offer a starting platform to get acquainted with the projects and further cooperation upon mutual interests. We received information from all the other projects from the same group - AGORA, DREAM ROAD, Melia Observatory, Talent Magnet, InnoSchool, offering a great opportunity to further collaboration.
2.TRANSNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE PROJECT D-CARE, JUNE 28, 2021
Project D-CARE (developing, piloting and validating smart care models in the Danube region to support social innovation, improve competences and entrepreneurship) aims to increase competences, build capacities and support social innovation in the Danube region. INDEED project - Innovation for Dementia in the Danube Region - was presented by Lea Pfaeffel, M.Sc., Project manager, Technical University of Munich, School of Medicine.
3.MEETING WITH CD SKILLS, SEPTEMBER 15 2021
Representatives of INDEED and CD SKILLS projects had a very interesting meeting in virtual space, in order to establish future directions for collaboration to create synergy. Taking into consideration that both projects target in a big measure the same group of healthcare professionals, such as family doctors and nurses, members of INDEED project will be invited to CD SKILLS project events (online meetings, visits to elderly care facilities), in order to present the project and the online training platform. In the same time, cross-linked posts on social media pages of both projects that could be of interest for both parts will be made.
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INDEED AND THE INTERNATIONAL ALZHEIMER DAY – SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
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ROMANIA
The Romanian Alzheimer's Society together with Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca and the General Directorate of Social Assistance and Child Protection Cluj with the support of Alphega Pharmacies and Patient 2.0 mark this day with the online event Alzheimer's Disease in contemporary society. Our INDEED project was also presented during this important event.
BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA
The International Alzheimer Day 2021 was celebrated in Bosnia-Herzegovina by the Alzheimer Udruženje AiR that has organized a round table named „BH Society in the Context of Dementia – How Much We Are an Empathic Society “. A review of the INDEED project was presented in the introductory part where outcomes of Centre for Dementia were presented. Further on, in the panel, has been discussed how can be used the INDEED materials and the online learning platform in the future education.
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EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS, AWARENESS CAMPAIGNS AND BLOGS
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1.BOSNIA – HERZEGOVINA. EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS AND TV DEMENTIA AWARENESS CAMPAIGN
10 dementia educational video clips were elaborated by Osman Kucuk from Alzheimer Society AiR Sarajevo and a TV dementia awareness campaign was initiated in May-June 2021 at N1 Television in Bosnia-Herzegovina, with a great success and great feedback on the videoclips' content. The videos have been posted on INDEED You Tube channel and can be found here.
2. INDEED on EPALE
INDEED project has its own blog on EPALE platform, that is an EU funded initiative to support education for adults across Europe. The blog can be accessed here https://epale.ec.europa.eu/en/blog/meet-our-project-indeed-innovation-dementia-danube-region
3.INDEED - Digital education remains core topic among EUSDR stakeholders
The relevance of digital education was emphasised by various stakeholders at the opening of the 10th Annual Forum of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR). The two-day conference was organised under the Slovakian presidency of the EUSDR from October 26-27. Policy makers from the Danube Region, representatives of the Danube Transnational Programme as well as other actors joint in several sessions to discuss current trends such as digitalisation, innovation and sustainability in the Danube Region. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the relevance of digital education increased over the last year.
The INDEED project is an example for introducing digital learning in the field of health and social care. Over the last three years, the project has developed and piloted an online learning course about dementia for professions from various disciplines.
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Meet INDEED at the following events:
The INDEED project will be present and presented on
- The 3rd Krems Dementia Conference that will take place in a virtual format in the period October 28th to 30th 2021.
More information about the Conference in Austria can be found here:https://www.donau-uni.ac.at/dementia-conference
- The National Conference of Family Doctors that will take place in Romania, in a virtual format, during 4-7 November 2021. https://cnmf.mediamed.ro/
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MAKING DEMENTIA A HEALTHCARE PRIORITY!
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