European Workshop „Making healthcare qualifications comparable across borders in Europe“ on 22 September 2016 in Vienna (AT)
A European labour market with mobile workers ready to work abroad is indispensible to overcome skill mismatches within healthcare across Europe. The recognition of healthcare qualifications across borders is, however, key for migration of healthcare professionals on the European labour market. The European project “HealthCareEurope” (HCEU) tackles this challenge.
A European labour market with mobile workers ready to work abroad is indispensible to overcome skill mismatches within healthcare across Europe. The recognition of healthcare qualifications across borders is, however, key for migration of healthcare professionals on the European labour market. The European project “HealthCareEurope” (HCEU) tackles this challenge.
It aims to facilitate the overcoming of skill mismatches through the provision of competence development matrixes (VQTS) to simplify and accelerate recognition processes within migration of healthcare professionals with a focus on ‘nursing’ and ‘elderly care’. The workshop presented and discussed the approach proposed by the HCEU project to facilitate comparability and transparency of elderly care and nursing qualifications across borders and within recognition processes with healthcare, education and recognition experts and professionals.
The participants had the opportunity to actively contribute to the development of the projects VQTS competence development matrixes (www.vocationalqualification.net) for the professional field of nursing and elderly care independent from the specificities of national education systems. The workshop programme was complemented by expert contributions on healthcare qualification and recognition praxis across Europe.
Healthcare, education and recognition experts and professionals were given a platform for interdisciplinary exchange and cooperation across Europe in this workshop. It makes a concrete contribution to shaping of a new tool within recognition praxis of healthcare qualifications.
The HCEU Workshop with the topic ‘Making healthcare qualification comparable across borders’ took place at Fleming’s hotel in Vienna (AT) on 22 September 2016 (from 09.00 to 13.00 CET). Further information on the workshop is available on the project Website www.project-hceu.eu.
3s (Sigrid, Nindl, Viktor Fleischer, Sabine Schwenk) is HCEU project partner and organised the HealthCareEurope workshop. Among other things, 3s is responsible for developing the VQTS competence matrixes.
Contact person: Sabine Schwenk: schwenk@3s.co.at,