GRUNDVIG LEARNING PARTNERSHIP AUGUST 2011 - JULY 2013 - Frauengesundheitszentrum Graz

GRUNDVIG LEARNING PARTNERSHIP
AUGUST 2011 – JULY 2013

Health literacy and health education fostering
participation and improving women’s and men’s health

• 1st Meeting November 2011, Graz
• Christine Hirtl – Project Coordinator

PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS
• Frauengesundheitszentrum – Women’s Health Centre –
  Austria
• Istituto Superiore di Sanità – Italy
• Careum – Switzerland
• Komiteen for Sundhedsoplysning - Danish Committee for
  Health Education - Denmark

PROJECT OBJECTIVES
• get in touch with European adult education organi-
  zations, NGOs and public institutions experienced in
  health literacy
• discuss different approaches, strategies and policies
• share skills, experiences and ideas
• exchange and discuss various national target group
  specific training programs for improving health literacy
• strengthen long term partnerships and networks among
  European adult education organizations

EXPECTED IMPACT AND RESULTS
• Get to know European adult education organizations,
  NGOs and public institutions working in the field of HL
  and health education
• Learn from different approaches, strategies and models
  of good practice
• Raise participants intercultural skills
• Build up alliances for advocating HL on a national and
  European level
• Maybe to develop an European project later on

APPROACH

Four partner meetings

1ST MEETING – AUSTRIA
• 1st day:
   – presentation of the partners
   – participatory planning of the project
   – distribution of task
• 2nd day:
   – common understanding of health literacy
   – status quo partnering countries
   – results of the European health literacy study

2ND MEETING – ITALY OR DENMARK
• 1st day:
   – Information and health literacy
   – Internet and specialized search engines
   – Quality criteria for evaluating health information available
     on the Web
• 2nd day:
   – Searching information for guidelines development
   – Web 2.0 tools.

3RD MEETING - SWITZERLAND
• 1st day:
   – Presentation of various national target group specific
     training programs for improving health literacy
• 2nd day:
   – Discussion and exchange on possible transfer into national
     approaches

4TH MEETING – ITALY OR DENMARK
• 1st day:
   – Presentations of national strategies advancing health
     literacy
   – discussion on challenges
   – compare approaches and find solutions
• 2nd day:
   – Summarizing results
   – evaluating the project
   – planning the dissemination of results

TASKS HOSTING A MEETING
•   Organize date, venue and board
•   agenda
•   Facilitation
•   Secure participants' involvement
•   Written and oral feedback
•   Minutes
•   Fotos

OPEN QUESTIONS

• 2nd meeting: Denmark (12/13 April 2011) or Italy?
• Fix dates for all the meetings right now?
• Duration of meetings?

FUNDS
• Each partner organization gets funds from their national
  agency as a lump sum (between 16.000 and 20.000
  Euros)
• 12 mobility: each partner organization has to send 12
  persons to partner meetings abroad
• There are no additional funds for the coordination of the
  project

OPEN QUESTIONS

• Meals and drinks during meetings covered by hosting
  organization?
• Costs of extra dinner/lunch covered by partners’
  national funds?
• Other suggestions?

COMMUNICATION AND OUTREACH
• Link on organization’s website -
  http://www.fgz.co.at/GRUNDTVIG-Learning-
  Partnership.755.0.html
• Short summery in national language: each partner
• tools of web 2.0 to communicate within the partnership
• Communication via e-mail, telephone and skype

OPEN QUESTIONS

• Do we need a web based platform for or
  communication?
• Who could organize it?

EVALUATION
• partner meetings
   – written and oral feedback on planning, agenda, methodological
     approaches, trainers, participation and lessons learned
• partnership: during the 4th meeting
   – lessons learned
   – impact of the partnership on
       • Participants
       • Participating organizations
       • European efforts to advance health literacy as part of life long
         learning
• results: analysis of minutes and feedback in relation to the
  aims of the partnership

DISSEMINATION OF RESULTS
• Discuss lessons learned and experiences with colleagues
  within the organization not part of the learning partnership.
• Communicate results to
   – local networks and cooperating partners
   – stakeholders of health literacy and health education
• Publish the final report on organization’s website
• Spread results within international networks: European EU-
  WHNet, engender database, Health Literacy Network
• EST - European Shared Treasure database – Women’s
  Health Center

DISTRIBUTION OF TASKS
• Coordinate and evaluate the Learning partnership:
  Women’s Health Centre
• Hosting a meeting: each partner organization
• Progress report June 2012: Women’s Health Center +
  partners’ collaboration
• Project report: to distribute
• Final report for publication on www: to distribute
• Communication: to distribute
• Dissemination and outreach: each partner organization

OPEN QUESTIONS

• How to distribute the project report ?
• How to distribute the public final report?
• Does each partner organization has to write a progress report or
  only the coordinator?
• Certificate of participation is accepted by all national agencies?

NATIONAL AGENCIES FOR GRUNDVIG
• Certificate of participation

I WISH YOU A VERY NICE EVENING!