PACIFICSTREAM

The key themes of the seminar will be:

• Identifying tomorrow’s major challenges and needs in European healthcare

• The contribution of the Nordic healthcare tradition

• Competence development for healthcare professionals in lifelong learning Europe

• The healthcare empowerment of patients and citizens in the lifelong learning Europe

• Lifelong learning for healthcare staff – new competences, new qualifications, mobility

• European mobility for healthcare staff and for learners?

• De-hospitalization – pervasive healthcare?

• Healthcare for elderly – the ageing society

• The challenges of multicultural healthcare

• How to deal with the increasing number of citizens suffering from lifestyle diaseases?

The networking seminar will offer a diversity of key note presentations, workshops and networking forums. The participants are encouraged to participate freely in the dialogues, and there will be scheduled time for networking and establishing partnerships during the seminar.





The contact seminar will offer a diversity of key note presentations, workshops and networking forums. The
participants are encouraged to participate freely in the dialogues, and there will be scheduled time for networking and establishing partnerships during the seminar.

Each workshop will take the form of a general presentation of a given subject including a presentation of already held projects and suggestions for new projects – suggestions from seminar participants will be welcomed. Furthermore there will be time for networking among participants during the workshops, both for establishing formal partnerships concerning a concrete project and for creating more informal networks for the sharing and developing of ideas.

On THURSDAY the 15th and FRIDAY the 16th, we will be working with the key health themes of the seminar.
FRIDAY EVENING there will be social activities, including a reception, dinner and musical entertainment. From 9 to 12 on SATURDAY the 17th, key consultants from the college will facilitate further networking and partnership constructions directly aiming to produce apllications on key healthcare issues for the 2009 Lifelong Learning Call.
Many of our national partners will also be joining the seminar.

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