• CONTEXT Professional mobility has become an inherent feature of today’s global world. Mobility of the nursing profession as well as mobility in patient populations (Buchan et al. 2014; Buchan, et al. 2017; United Nations 2018) has led to cultural heterogeneity and language discordance (Stilwell et al. 2004). • OBJECTIVESIn order to respond to the growing intercultural communication needs, TraINErS –Training Intercultural Nursing Educators and Students–develops a theoretically sound (blended) training program consisting of internationally tested, validated as well as accredited online/mobile materials and longitudinal online support to train educators involved in the development of nursing students' intercultural competences and skills. TraINErS will enhance encounters with diverse patient populations as well as prepare nurses to be(come) mobile professionals integrating in new socio-cultural contexts. TraINErS will define a profile with intercultural competences and skills for educators as well as students to foster intercultural communication in healthcare and develop a tool to evaluate intercultural communication growth. Thus, the program will have an immediate effect on nursing students before/during/after an international exchange, but also address intercultural competence-at-home. • PARTICIPANTSThe development of profile, blended program and evaluation tool will culminate in two training activities (in the east and in the north of the EU) where educators and nursing students (N=140) will collaboratively enhance their intercultural communication. • ACTIVITIESTraINErS will develop innovative learning opportunities in intercultural nursing communication by supporting nursing educators as well as students in acquiring and further developing the required skills and competences to become interculturally proficient professionals. TraINErS will first draw a reliable and validated profile of the Intercultural Nursing Educator (INE), since a study of the literature has shown that such a profile is not available and training is often not theoretically supported. The profile will be converted in an evaluative online/mobile instrument for educators to measure their own intercultural sensitivity growth and learning gain while undergoing blended training. Authentic and relevant materials will be responsibly designed and presented as part of a blended multimodal training program for intercultural nursing communication with online support culminating in an in-service training activity where educators will complete their earlier started online training and immediately apply it in sessions with international nursing students. By explicitly focusing on the intercultural communication competences in nursing the project is in line with the increasingly globalised profile of the profession and will prepare interculturally competent (pre-)professionals for the future. Every step of the development process will be evaluated on a process and product level.• RESULTS and IMPACTAs an online/mobile tool and program TraINErS empowers professionals to autonomously improve their communication skills in an additional culture. The online cases will contain a test module, which will be scored. Accreditation will be put in place. STUDENT nurses will -develop awareness of their intercultural sensitivity/growth and articulate how this may affect their nursing practice -compare/contrast the cultural identity in the training with their own-apply principles of intercultural nursing communication to nursing practice in different international case scenarios in the training -recognize detrimental effects of ethnocentrism, cultural stereotyping, prejudice and cultural imposition-identify health inequalities and support plans to improve them -use culturally sensitive (non-)verbal communication in nursing care in cases during blended training -develop their language (the program is English-medium taught), gain foreign language insights and interpersonal and critical thinking skills. The EDUCATORS will-identify their own cultural sensitivity and gain-engage in learning (about) intercultural communication in nursing-engage in the teaching materials and approach to facilitate intercultural nursing communication-apply teaching/learning strategies to promote their own understanding of the learning trajectory-apply good practice in intercultural nursing communication through micro-teaching during the training activity. • LONG term benefit and impact:TraINErS introduces tailor-made communication support into the vocational training system of highly skilled professionals;-raises awareness about intercultural communication in clinical settings;-fosters intercultural nursing communication since professionals are provided with a tool to progress from less cultural sensitivity to a level where they will be able to operate as interculturally competent professionals;-enhances intercultural healthcare communication.

One out of six people in the European Union has a disability, usually caused by an acute episode or a chronic disease. Providing a suitable rehabilitation is the main issue for people as they age as it helps people to live independently and enhance their Quality of Life. However, as the rehabilitation period usually last some months, the continuity of care often is interrupted in the transition from the hospital to the home. Virtual Coaches can help these patients to proceed with a personalized rehabilitation that complies to age-related conditions, as the key technology for empowering patients through the enhancement of the adherence to the care plan and the risk prevention. The project “vCare” (Virtual Coaching Activities for Rehabilitation in Elderly) addresses two major shortcomings of the status quo: a participatory design driven by users’ needs and the personalization of the care pathways enabled by technology. In fact that rehabilitation is an ideal setting as “users” (physicians and patients) interact together for a “long” period into the clinic (from two weeks to two months): this is a good opportunity to embed into the knowledge of the system the clinical profiles and the pathways that will drive the behaviour of the virtual coach at home. Well-elaborated services for tele-rehabilitation of former EU projects, such as eWall or Miracolus Life, will be adapted. Therefore, the system will integrate a semantic layer (universAAL) including a reasoning engine that merges all patient-related and context information together. The advanced services of vCare will be deployed on a reference platform of MYSPHERA (FIWARE-based) and implemented in four reference sites, dealing with commonly impacted domains (neurological and cardiological). The results of vCare shall stimulate the European Healthcare & ICT sector for innovations in the field of integrated care. In sum, vCare will contribute to the EU goal to increase healthy life years of Europeans by two until 2020.

"New technologies and scientific developments over the recent years have radically changed the landscape in health and education, bringing benefits that were unimaginable until recently but also problems for workers, teachers and students. Many systems, devices and techniques used in the daily work are becoming increasingly complex and automated, requiring specific training or, at best, skill updating for health professionals. In the educational area, due to the high cost of acquisition of many devices used in hospitals, their complexity and their hazard (for example, in the field of radiological protection), students in Health Education Training Centres cannot experience how these devices work and neither can they see the real environment they will have to face in the future. The training of these students is drifting away from the reality that they will encounter and this is a problem both for students and for biomedical companies themselves.In this context, the general objectives of the project ""Extended reality in biomedical environments"" are: to bring closer together the reality of biomedical companies and health training centres through mixed reality, augmented reality and virtual reality and to improve the knowledge acquisition of our Students in health care training. To solve the problems described above and to take advantage of the possibilities of extended reality, the project proposes four lines of work that will be materialized in 4 products:1. Remote training or Tele-training: a video conference with virtual elements (computer graphics, images, etc.) in which a speaker from a Specialized Biomedical Research Center explains a technique or a device in a biomedical environment to our students, who are physically present at the educational center.
2. Virtual rendering of professional biomedical environments: the aim is to build virtual working environments faithfully and quickly using BIM technology that can be used on different platforms (mobile, tablet, PC...) or even 3D printing.3. Holographic simulators: in this line, the aim is to create virtual simulators of biomedical devices using virtual and mixed reality that have functionalities similar to those of a real device, with the possibilities of enriching the experience with didactic elements.4. Holographic tutorials: this is the creation of devices tutorials using holograms and multimedia elements that help students understand and manage them.In the development of the project, which lasts 36 months, 6 public and private institutions are working together:- CIFP Los Gladiolos (Spain): Vocational Training Centre specialized in health system professions. It is the coordinating centre of the project.- Kauno Kolegija University (Lithuania): working closely with CIFP Los Gladiolos, it is in charge of the methodological proposal of the project.- University of La Laguna (Spain): together with the University of Videzme, it is responsible for coordinating the digital production of the resources (professional environments and simulators) and for providing technical support for tele-training and holographic tutorials.- University of Vidzeme (Latvia): it is a university with great prestige and experience in European projects and technological innovation.- The company Geoavance (Spain): carries out the scanning of professional environments and its BIM modeling.- The Basque Health Service. Osakidetza (Spain): in collaboration with Bioaraba - OSI Araba - Health Research Institute, it is responsible for organizing the scans to be carried out and for providing quality and rigorous information on the radiological protection equipment selected.To carry out all this, the work will be coordinated on the basis of the needs detected in the health training centres (Los Gladiolos and Kauno Kolegija). With these needs and with the advice of the Basque Health Service ,Osakidetza, proposals will be made for content and teaching methods that will be materialised in educational resources created or supported by the University of La Laguna, University of Vidzeme and Geoavance.The expected results are the improvement in the training for students, closing the reality gap between training centres and biomedical companies, a greater interest of companies in the work carried out by educational centres and finally the creation of high quality resources for teachers.In the long term, it is expected that these 4 products will be transferred to other European educational centres and will be further enhanced in order to improve their main objectives: to bring the reality of the biomedical companies even closer to the educational centres and to improve training for thousands of students."

Clinical need: 10% of the population worldwide is affected by chronic kidney disease (CKD) and millions die each year because they do not have access to treatment. Giving global shortage of kidney donors, the vast majority of patients rely on hemodialysis (HD). Over 2.6M people worldwide currently receive HD to stay alive, yet this number may only represent 10% of people needing treatment. Solution: Up to 70% of current arteriovenous grafts (AVG) fail in the first year after implantation. This is primarily due to thrombosis, luminal scar formation, and infection. In our ground-breaking new AVG, biomimicking zwitterions prevent thrombosis, drug delivery prevents scar formation and infection, and an ECM coating ensures fast tissue integration allowing early HD. Smart: TELEGRAFT comprises two diagnostic tools to monitor and prevent device complication. Pressure transmitters are used to monitor blood flow and optical sensors to detect inflammation and infections. The data is processed by AI machine learning models and displayed in an easy to understand dashboard for healthcare professionals. The data allows online telemonitoring and consultations by remote healthcare professionals. This makes home dialysis safe for patients, even in areas with poor infrastructure, where patients live far from HD clinics. Surgical implantation: The TELEGRAFT system will be demonstrated in an operational environment through a 2-stage randomized clinical trial enrolling 60 patients at 5 hospitals across Europe and through a home HD field study. Resource constrained setting: (1) In low and middle income countries, TELEGRAFT will substitute complicated and expensive kidney transplantation and allow simpler and cheap implantation of AVG for HD. (2) TELEGRAFT is the only solution with diagnostic tools allowing real-time online detection and remote monitoring of complications and device failure. This allows transition from HD at the hospital to the resource constrained home setting.

MAGIC Post Stroke Project Team has united members from across Europe, dedicated to enable significant change in the delivery of health & social care (H&SC) services for patients post stroke. The consortium has recognised a significant gap in care associated with the recovery of such patients & we need a new way of meeting the needs of 508,000 new post stroke EU citizens/ year. Demographic changes are such that H&SC systems are failing to keep pace with demand & are not fit for purpose. By working in new ways & by reengineering systems with novel innovative technology & solutions we can think differently about our approach to care & improve the well-being for our patients; optimising the opportunity for recovery post stroke. Presently 1/3rd of all stroke patients are discharged from hospital with a significant change to life style, well-being, health status & independence. Community H&SC services do not enable patients to make a sufficient recovery post stroke. A search of state of the art technologies indicated much progress in the development of technologies to assist patients but no system is available to significantly affect rehabilitative improvement to scale; with no solution integration with H&SC services. Therefore, Public Procurers cannot go to open tender to deploy effective technology to solve system failures. The MAGIC Consortium recognised Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) as the only way to stimulate the market to find a solution to our common problem. MAGIC is an essential & strategically critical programme for the Team to optimise a patient’s recovery, to modernise H&SC systems to meet demand & to stimulate research, development & innovation. MAGIC will also stimulate European industry to become a global leader in this innovative field. Use of PCP is of particular interest to the consortium members & is new for many. Therefore, observer states will participate to contribute to the Pan-European improvement in care and to proactively share PCP knowledge.