The 3rd consortium meeting of EDUPALL Project took place from the 7th to 9th of November 2018 in Dublin, Ireland.

The End of Life Research Group from Brussels and Ghent led by Professors Luc Deliens and Joachim Cohen works towards achieving the best palliative and end of life care. As an initiative of this research group a two-day seminar “Public Health and Palliative Care: Shifting the Paradigm” was held in the Palace of the Royal Academies in Brussels from the 25th to 26th of October.

From the 18th to 20th October Romanian palliative care and hospice movement celebrated its 20th anniversary. To mark this significant effort professional caregivers all over Romania gathered in Poiana, Braşov. The meeting was put together of festive gala evening on Thursday night to recognise people who have worked hard to make the palliative care and hospice movement a success and of two-day conference on Friday and Saturday called “Giving voice for those in suffering”.

The WHO Collaborating Centre in Salzburg stood strong for Innovation, better end of life care, and high quality palliative care education at the WHO Regional meeting of Government Chief Nursing Officers, WHO collaborating centres and European Forum of National Nursing and Midwifery Associations in Athens from the 3rd to 4th of October, 2018.

The 2nd teaching and learning event of ERASMUS+ Project “Enhancing Nurses' and Midwives’ Competence in Providing Spiritual Care through Innovative Education and Compassionate Care” took place from the 24th to the 28th of September, 2018 at the University of Malta, in Valletta.

Equipping teachers with best philosophy, self-help methods and teaching strategies is a part of palliative care education that needs further attention, investigation and development. Piret Paal, Researcher and coordinator at the WHO Collaborating Centre for Nursing Research and Education at the Paracelsus Medical University in Salzburg, Austria, highlights the results of a recent survey.

In 2017, the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre at the Paracelsus Medical University in Salzburg,…

A one day meeting to discuss the next steps regarding the nurses and midwives biennial meeting in Athens was held in the UN City, Copenhagen on the 22nd of June 2018.

The 2nd consortium meeting of EDUPALL Project took place from the 11th to 13th of June 2018 in Aachen, Germany.

The overall aim of this ERASMUS Plus supported project is to develop a standardized curriculum for undergraduate medical students in palliative care. The curriculum model approved by the European Association for Palliative Care will be available in Romanian, English and German language.

Dr. Andreas Stähli is currently conducting an ethnographic fieldwork in Eastern-Europe and Central-Asian countries to enquire about the structures of post-graduate palliative care education and explore the needs for further developments. The fieldwork data will be iterative: consisting of fieldwork diary and notes, results of structural questionnaire and semi-structured interview data.

The first field impressions from Kirgizstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan are encouraging.

Dr.Taalaigul Sabyrbekova from…