Organized Crime and Terrorist Networks (OC/TN) are a major challenge for the European Union and many different stakeholder groups are involved in creating awareness, preventing, identifying and intervene in case of risk or threat. But in order to develop better strategies and instruments, we still need a deeper understanding of these phenomena. TAKEDOWN therefore aims at generating such novel insights on OC/TN. In order to meet this challenge and to investigate this complex field of research a multidimensional modelling approach is used. The resulting, proprietary TAKEDOWN Model describes social, psychological, economic aspects as well as further dimensions, activities and response approaches. A comprehensive empirical research combined with European and international expert knowledge ensures a valid and intuitive model. The TAKEDOWN Open Information Hub targets first-line-practitioners and provides modular solutions and inductive materials. The public web platform helps individuals to navigate to the right third party reporting and help lines including an innovative crowd reporting application to report digital OC/TN cases. The TAKEDOWN OC/TN Professional Solution Platform consists of various modules for law enforcement and homeland security departments. Designed with a flexible Platform as a Service (PaaS) architecture it combines knowledge materials and digital security solutions. Via the TAKEDOWN Security Dashboard information streams of native and third party applications are combined in an identification and issue management cockpit. The TAKEDOWN Professional Advisor supports experts on the selection of relevant approaches and security solutions to tackle OC/TN. With this multi-level approach, TAKEDOWN will force a better understanding of OC/TN, develop modern approaches and solutions, and will finally lead to a more efficient and effective response on OC/TN and strengthen social cohesion at pan-European level.

"Current healthcare training curriculum relies upon a comprehensive understanding of the bio-medical model of medicine. However, it has been recognised that a curriculum that incorporates a more rounded model is critical. To explore a new model of healthcare training, storytelling can become a crucial tool for educators to show the hidden and silent stories of both, patients, healthcare processional, loved one, and vulnerable people who are receiving care. Storytelling is best used in an interdisciplinary environment which this project will foster by creating an innovative multi-professional, inter-stakeholder approach to bridge the gap between current educational models and a more rounded model of the future. Healthcare systems across Europe are experiencing a growing number of healthcare professionals, i.e. Nurses, Doctors, Ancillary care staff, affected by “burn-out”, substance misuse, relationship traumas and increased vulnerability to mental ill-health. Long-term psychological and physical damage is currently causing healthcare professionals to leave, in addition the impact of financial burdens to access higher education for training has also caused a reduction in the numbers of healthcare professionals. Europe must recognise that a curriculum that incorporates a more rounded model which includes: the promotion of selfcare and life-balance for the individual, a recognition of the person’s heritage & culture, and ensuring that the holistic care of the student/professional, is critical. Simultaneously, the emotional resilience required for the impact of vulnerable patients requires the students’ background to be woven into their thinking and being, to reconstruct the meaning of the professional. Currently I am using storytelling to deliver groupwork and individual contact to support trainee Nurses, doctors, auxiliary staff and the patient’s loved ones. Storytelling is able to translate and make available in a sensitive and appropriate manner, the hidden and silent stories of both, patients, healthcare professional and loved-ones. It also seeks to provide healing and adaptation to various social and cultural environments for the group and individual. It embodies thoughts, knowledge and heritage, and reveals the language of the world and community in which we live.Building a truly interprofessional approach to storytelling is crucial to this project. There is significant evidence to indicate that effective interprofessional education (IPE) is an innovative strategy that enables effective collaborative practice. Interprofessional education (IPE) is a necessary step in preparing a prepared health workforce. It is proven that collaborative practice strengthens health systems and improves health outcomes (WHO, 2010). Europe faces increased demand for health services due to ageing populations, rising patient mobility, and a diminishing supply of health workers caused by retirement rates that surpass recruitment rates. This places great emphasis on the health workforce with the majority of health system change enacted by healthcare professionals themselves. A preparatory workshop was held at the European Conference of Health Workforce Education & Research in Dublin, Ireland in January 2019. The feedback received by the consortium proves the need for a European wide project to ensure that storytelling is easily included into EU healthcare education programmes:“This workshop enabled us to consider the people behind our service users, and to acknowledge their stories and to consider what was important to them. Eli enabled us to look at health and social care from the perspective of the service user and to consider how they were feeling. He stressed how important it was for us to connect with service users on a human level as a person.”“I was at Eli’s workshop and think it has great potential”""Eli's rehumanizing workshop encouraged us to recrystallize our 'human identity' and place it at the heart of our professional commitments and routines""Every story told fires the imagination, highlights diversity, challenges injustice, confirms the humanity of a human being and re-establishes positive relationships. This project will spread these skills throughout Europe."