Operational Program in Poland:  OPERATIONAL PROGRAM KNOWLEDGE EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT

Number and name of Priority Axis: IV. SOCIAL INNOVATION AND TRANSNATIONAL COOPERATION

Number and name of Measure: 4.3. TRANSNATIONAL COOPERATION

Transnational cooperation partners:

Beneficiary: Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland)

Polish Partner: Central Institute for Labour Protection  - National Research Insitute (Warsaw, Poland)

Transnational Partner: Katholische Universität Eichstätt – Ingolstadt (Eichstätt, Germany)

Period covered: 2021-05-01 - 2023-04-30

The main goal of the project:

The aim of the project is to increase the possibility of extending the professional activity of employees in the pre-retirement and retirement age in the large enterprise sector by developing and implementing the Sygalizator Plus model using German experience and solutions.

The project will create two complementary support models:

1. The support model for the employer, consisting of:

a. Methodologies for assessing the professional functioning of an employee - functional diagnosis based on ICF (International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health) and psychosocial and functional tests

 b. Material concerning types of work (group of positions) with specific characteristics in terms of sensory, psychosocial, physical and functional requirements. The types of work will be developed in such a way that they can be applied / implemented in other large enterprises, appropriate to the age, together with procedures for adjusting these positions to age, together with guidelines for adjusting positions to the possibilities and predispositions.

c. Training program on the implementation of the proposed solutions

d. A program for entrepreneurs to use data from functional analyzes to plan and support the professional activity of older employees (recommendations, instructions and a description of the coaching methodology to support the enterprise)

2. Support model for an employee in pre-retirement / retirement age, consisting of:

a. A kit / questionnaire for the self-assessment of the employee in the context of the work performed

b. A support program for employees in pre-retirement age aimed at preparing them for longer professional activity or professional retraining for use by employees

c. Methodology of coaching and development support for older people employees, allowing the use of the obtained data in planning further professional activities.

Operational Program in Poland:  OPERATIONAL PROGRAM KNOWLEDGE EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT

Number and name of Priority Axis: IV. SOCIAL INNOVATION AND TRANSNATIONAL COOPERATION

Number and name of Measure: 4.3. TRANSNATIONAL COOPERATION

Number of application for assistance: POWR.04.03.00-00-0025/19

Transnational cooperation partners:

Beneficiary: National Health Fund (Warsaw, Poland)

• National Partner: Institute of Rural Medicine in Lublin (Lublin, Poland)
• National Partner: Edqeteq sp.z o.o. (Warsaw, Poland)

Transnational Partner: Katholische Universität Eichstätt – Ingolstadt (Eichstätt, Germany)

The main goal of the project:

Implementation of the quality assessment of medical rehabilitation by standardizing the patient's functional assessment using the International Classification of Disability and Health Functioning (ICF). As part of the project, functional assessment standards will be developed that will allow for a unified description of patients (category profile) who benefit from both in-patient and out-patient rehabilitation.

The standards developed and implemented will allow for the introduction of a uniform patient support planning system (intervention card).

The assessment of the effectiveness of planned support (post-rehabilitation assessment card) will allow for a comprehensive assessment of the quality and effectiveness of support provided both at the level of a specific person and the hospital as well as all participants of the rehabilitation process.

The comprehensive implementation of this solution will allow you to assess the effectiveness of spending public funds and rationally plan preventive measures and activities related to patient care. The developed standards for assessing the effectiveness of rehabilitation activities will be implemented into practice (ICF system), which is tantamount to the obligation of medicinal entities conducting rehabilitation financed from the NFZ funds to report in accordance with the developed standards.

The main tasks in the project:

1) 1st milestone - 9 months from the start of the project: preparation of a new solution in cooperation with a transnational partner, (implementation period: February 2020 - October 2020). :

a. Developing the principles of comprehensive functional assessment of patients in various health areas using available tests and questionnaires.

b. Development of category profiles and intervention cards according to ICF in the field of rehabilitation in stationary rehabilitation wards and outpatient rehabilitation.

c. Developing principles for assessing the effectiveness of therapeutic rehabilitation.

d. Developing a training program for rehabilitation staff.

e. Development of guidelines for assessing the effectiveness of therapeutic rehabilitation

f. Developing an additional IT tool to assess the effectiveness of therapeutic rehabilitation, which will complement the NFZ IT system.

g. Developing assumptions for self-assessment of rehabilitation effects using distance communication tools.

2) Milestone II - 18 months from the start of the project, testing the solutions developed (implementation period November 2020-July 2021):

a) Test implementation of training programs for rehabilitation ward staff.

b) Test implementation of the principles of comprehensive functional assessment of patients in various health areas in five centers on a group of 1,000 people from stationary departments and 500 people using outpatient rehabilitation, a total of 1,500 people.

c) Test implementation of an IT tool to assess the effectiveness of medical rehabilitation.

d) Test implementation of self-assessment of the effects of rehabilitation using distance communication tools.

e) Support and supervision over the test implementation of the effectiveness of therapeutic rehabilitation.

3) III milestone - 20 months from the start of the project - analysis of the effects of the tested solutions together with transnational partners and improvement / modification of the developed solutions in order to verify and improve the developed tools and procedures including data obtained during the analysis of the test phase,

4) 4th milestone - 22 months from the start of the project - implementation of the new solution into practice (implementation period: September 2021-November 2021):

a) Conducting a series of meetings in 16 voivodships regarding the assessment of the effectiveness of medical rehabilitation

b) Implementation of courses (training) for the staff of rehabilitation wards - training 320 people on the developed principles (20 people in each voivodship), which will implement the solution in practice;

c) Preparation and printing of information and teaching materials

d) Preparation and adoption of the Order of the President of the NFZ regarding the implementation of developed solutions

5) The fifth milestone - 23 months from the start of the project - Working out of recommendations (instructions describing the elements necessary for the functioning of the developed solution in relation to the requirements, e.g. organizational, technical, competence and personnel, costs).

https://www.nfz.gov.pl/o-nfz/programy-i-projekty/projekty/funkcjonalny-systemem-rehabilitacji/

Project duration: Since October 2020

Under the title SchanzerPluspunkt, the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (Chair of Social Pedagogy), FC Ingolstadt 04, Audi BKK and Gesundheitsnetzwerk Leben have launched a joint project for health promotion in the Bavarian region 10/Ingolstadt.

With the prevention project, the latest findings and research-based knowledge of the disciplines involved are networked with the extensive experience and practical knowledge of the multi-professional project partners and offered with the specially designed educational format in the form of an interactive series of events with media and public appeal. Theoretical and subject-specific contents, concepts and methods are made accessible to a broad public with the help of comprehensible language appropriate to the target group. In application-oriented formats, the participants also have the opportunity to try out training methods under the guidance and supervision of experts, to obtain advice from health service providers and to exchange ideas with each other.

With the prevention project series, health pedagogical topics and fields of action are taken up and conceptually and methodically prepared in a target group-oriented manner. Starting in April 2021, six interdisciplinary and multi-professional infotainment events are planned at two-month intervals in Ingolstadt and Eichstätt for young people and senior citizens, women and men on the topics of addiction, the musculoskeletal system, suicide prevention, cardiovascular system, nutrition and work-life balance.

The concept is rounded off by the inclusion of two match points (activities on the sidelines of match days in the stadium) and a central homepage for the media preparation and interactive use of the contents in order to achieve the broadest possible distribution, application and sustainability of the measures and project impulses. Through the participation of prominent players (e.g. professional footballers) and creative individual actions, a sustainable effect is to be achieved due to the event character, thus creating an added value.

The "SchanzerPluspunkt" project is funded by the Innovation Fund as part of the "Mensch in Bewegung" project at KU. The aim of the funding is to strengthen cooperation and exchange between the university and regional partner organisations. The money for the fund is provided by the federal-state initiative "Innovative Hochschule", through which the project "Mensch in Bewegung" is also financed.

"Mensch in Bewegung" is a joint project of the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt and the Ingolstadt University of Technology. Together with partners from business, politics and civil society, the universities are building a regional network for knowledge exchange in the fields of innovative mobility, digital transformation, sustainable development and civic engagement. The project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the State of Bavaria as part of the "Innovative University" funding initiative with around 15 million euros over five years.