HCEU findings presented at ECER in Copenhagen (DK)

Together with Tanja Bacher (3s), Marjan Khobreh (University Siegen) and Dr. Thorsten Dunkel (NABIBB), TU Dresden (Prof. Dr. Sandra Bohlinger and Luisa Kresse) conducted a research workshop on the topic “Reforming Education and the Imperative of Constant Change in the Health Care Sector” at the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) in Copenhagen (DK). The workshop took place within the network “Vocational Education and Training” on Friday, 25 August 2017.

Within this workshop existing approaches to identify and overcome skills shortages in the health care sector have been discussed and critically reflected. For this reason the projects HCEU (Health Care Europe), Pro-Nursing and No Borders Manual (NoBoMa) have been presented. All projects aim at improving the training of caregivers and the knowledge and quality of tasks that are demanded in this field.

The European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) is an annual conference taking place at different Universities and Colleges in Europe. This year’s venue has been the University College in Copenhagen. The theme of ECER 2017 was: Reforming Education and the Imperative of Constant Change: Ambivalent roles of policy and the role of educational research.

This conference is organised by the European Research Association (EERA) which membership is made up of national regional Education Research Associations, 34 full members and 6 candidate members, from all parts of Europe. The aim of EERA is to further high quality educational research for the benefit of education and society.

The academic work as well as the conference itself is organised in thematic networks. In 2017 the conference was made up of 32 networks as for example the networks on:

• Vocational Education and Training,
• Policy Studies and Politics of Education,
• Research on Health Education.

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