Very preterm birth is a principal determinant of motor and cognitive impairment in later life. About 50 000 infants in the EU survive very preterm birth annually and are at much higher risk of cerebral palsy, visual and auditory deficits, impaired cognitive ability, psychiatric disorders and behavioural problems than infants born at term. However, the long term prognosis at initial discharge from hospital for each individual infant is unknown. Follow-up screening and prevention programmes aim to identify health problems early, enable interventions to improve outcome and to allow optimal management of health care. Despite the recognised importance of these programmes, little is known about their actual application and impact. These programmes consume significant resources because of the multidisciplinary staff required for clinical and developmental assessments and interventions, the coordination required to maintain contact with children after discharge and the time input from families. This project uses a unique resource – the EPICE cohort of 6675 babies born before 32 weeks of gestational age and surviving to discharge home in 18 geographically diverse regions in 2011/2012 – to assess the impact of these screening programmes on health, care and quality of life for very preterm infants and their families as well as on coverage, ability to meet needs, health equity and costs at the population-level. It will also generate new knowledge about assessment tools and methods. Four inter-related studies will be carried out in 11 EU countries by a multi-disciplinary consortium of clinicians (in obstetrics, paediatrics, and child development), researchers (in epidemiology, health services research and health economics) and a user organisation. Partners have the expertise to implement this project and the national and international renown to translate its result into better programmes and policies.

This action supports physical and blended mobility of higher education students and staff from EU Member States and third countries associated to Erasmus+ to any country in the world. Students in all study fields and cycles can take part in a study period or traineeship abroad. Higher education teaching and administrative staff can take part in professional development activities abroad, as well as staff from the field of work in order to teach and train students or staff at higher education institutions.

"The project entitled ""European e-manual for laryngeal surgery - medical e-university based on surgical video footage"" aims to create an innovative European e-book of laryngeal surgery, i.e. a collection of video recordings from live surgery sessions, creating a textbook of laryngeal surgery available online for free, for medical students and doctors from Europe and the whole world. It will be a kind of medical e-university based on video broadcasts of procedures and their recordings. Within the project, an Internet platform will be created which will enable conducting live sessions of surgery, gathering recordings of those sessions, as well as dividing those recordings into chapters and describing them, thus modelling the educational process. The project will include a series of live transmissions of surgery conducted by professors of medical universities in Poland, Germany and Spain, whose recordings will be published online in the form of a manual.The project’s target group are students of medical universities and doctors, not only involved in the project, but from all over the world. The open character and open access to the created materials will allow the audience to learn from the best professors anytime, anywhere.The results of the project will be the creation of an e-book of laryngeal surgery, available openly and free of charge for doctors and medical students. The hard results of the project will be:creation of an Internet platform that will enable live surgery sessions and recording of procedures, which will make it possible to create a meritorical description and publication of materials.creation of an e-manual of laryngeal surgery, i.e. a series of recordings of procedures, which are a compendium of knowledge in the field of laryngeal surgeryThe e-manual will contain 8-9 chapters on individual surgical techniques. Chapter 1 is a set of 6-10 basic operations of laryngoscopy (collection of samples, mapping). Chapter 2 is a set of 10-30 classical phonosurgery surgeries. Chapter 3 is a collection of a laser phonosurgery operations. The following chapters will contain about 10 films on the subjects of: (4) endoscopic surgery of epiglottis and (5) glottis, dysphagia cancers (6), open laryngoplastic surgery (7) and laryngeal cancers (8).Chapter 9 will be a unique collection of surgical procedures, difficult to assign to other categories. It is estimated that in the course of the project, about 100 educational materials will be published on the platform. After the end of the project, further recordings will be made to supplement the handbook as new operating methods are developed. Further laryngological clinics are also planned to join in order to broaden the potential and increase the number of demonstration surgeries. It is also planned to extend the platform and prepare e-manuals from other areas of surgery. The project will also develop statistical reports on the use of the e-manuals, showing the number of views of a given surgery or the geographical distribution of viewers. It should be emphasized that the proposed solution is innovative on a global scale, as the result will be a ""living"" manual, which will be supplemented with new recordings and new operating methods after the end of the project. We decided to implement the project in an international consortium, so that the educational materials would come from the best specialists in a given surgical method. Our target group is also international, which, coupled with free online availability, eliminates barriers in the access to knowledge, levels the playing field and raises the level of professionalism of future laryngology specialists."

This action supports physical and blended mobility of higher education students and staff from EU Member States and third countries associated to Erasmus+ to any country in the world. Students in all study fields and cycles can take part in a study period or traineeship abroad. Higher education teaching and administrative staff can take part in professional development activities abroad, as well as staff from the field of work in order to teach and train students or staff at higher education institutions.