The PD_Pal project is to validate a new model of palliative care, which could be easily integrated with traditional Management when disability limits mobility and independence. Part of developing new standards for palliative care in Parkinson's Disease is to make high quality palliative care education accessible to healthcare professionals as well as patients and caregivers.

Dr. Piret Paal was invited to discuss the importance of performance assessment in palliative care education during a zoominar organized by Eramus+ financed EDUPALL Project on the 23rd of July in 2020.

The Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen, along with the research partners in Finland, Romania, Austria and the European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC), is to develop a guideline to place more emphasis on ‘palliative care’ within the European Nursing study programmes.

For the first time ever, the nations of the world unite to celebrate the benefits that nursing and midwifery bring to the health of the global population. To mark this world first, the European Association for Palliative Care together with the WHO Collaborating Centre for Nursing Research and Education at the Paracelsus Medical University in Salzburg is delighted to launch a special series of 12 monthly posts to honour the work of nurses who work in palliative care and draw attention to several issues that...

EDUPALL together with EAPC, AHIIPC & PMU WHOCC and other partners, is offering a series of free online-lectures with leading palliative care clinicians and teachers.

“I do not give up easily – that is a useful quality to have in academic research, as the path can be rocky and strewn with setbacks,” says PhD student and nurse researcher Katharina Lex from the Institute of Nursing Science and Practice at the Paracelsus Medical University in Salzburg, Austria.

Since 2016, the Institute has been a WHO Collaborating Centre for Nursing Research and Education, working towards strengthening palliative care education and training with a focus on nurse-led palliative care...

The World Health Organisation has redesignated the Institute for Nursing Science and Practice at the Paracelsus Medical Private University as WHO Collaborating Centre for Nursing Science and Education.

A one-week multidisciplinary palliative care seminar "Capacity Building and Empowerment" was held from the 25th of November to the 29th of November 2019 in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine.

EDUPALL 3rd short term joint staff training on assessment strategies in palliative care education took place from the 23rd to 27th of September 2019 at the University Clinic of RWTH Aachen.