01-11-2022
28-02-2025
Vocational training in illicit drug addiction: Equipping health care practitioners with addiction treatment competences and techniques (CARE4SUD) is a project which is funded by the Erasmus + Programme of the European Union (KA 220 VET – Cooperation partnerships in vocational education and training) and it is developed by Klaipėdos Ernesto Galvanausko Profesinio Mokymo Centras (Lithuania) in partnership with Institut Za Raziskave In Razvoj Utrip Zavod (Slovenia), Sosu Ostjylland (Denmark), Universidade do Porto (Portugal), Direcția de Asistență Socială și Medicală Cluj-Napoca (Romania) and Institute of Social Solidarity and Wellbeing: Social Mind (Greece). The project’s overall aim is to ensure a higher professionalism of the healthcare work force in the illicit drug addiction field at national and European level. In particular, the project anticipates to meet the following specific objectives: Contribute to improved competences on illicit drug addiction counselling skills related to screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment and respond to current, emerging and growing needs of the Vocational training sector addressing lack of addiction specialists. Provide opportunities for continuous professional development in the health industry and create the conditions for increasing the human capital capacity, and employability of health care workers. Empower cooperation between educational institutions and the health care industry, in order to draw critical recommendations on the evolution of the addiction skillset and related job opportunities. The project's target group comprises: health care practitioners in the primary health sector inexperienced in illicit drug addiction and/or physicians who seek to enter the field of addiction to enhance their knowledge and skills required for employment and professional development; addiction professionals (social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists working in illicit drug abuse settings); VET Educators, experts in the SUD field, VET providers, social care professionals, as well as targeted policy makers. CARE4SUD project will truly meet the existing deficiencies in training programmes on SUD in the six participating countries and across Europe and the existing shortages of career opportunities and skilled health care practitioners in the field of illicit drug abuse by implementing a range of structured activities in logical order and with strong interdependencies among them. In particular the activities of CARE4SUD developed in response to real Partner’s and target group needs are structured in WPs as follows: Horizontal WPs (WP1+WP5): implemented during the whole project lifecycle for effective deployment of all activities and achievement of high quality/sustainable results, project visibility, interaction/contribution from all target groups. The dissemination strategy will be designed to boost project innovation, ‘educate’ the health care community and sell project outputs and their scientific results at systemic level. -Vertical WPs (CORE): WP2: deals with the needs assessment and aims to identify the gaps and shortages in practical and forward-looking skills in the illicit drug addiction health care industry and formulates the skills competence framework as a prerequisite for the development of competency in the professional treatment of illicit drug substance abuse. WP2 will form the basis for the development of the new addiction counselling VET programme according to EQF and compatible with ECVET and which will be validated by experienced VET educators from the health industry (WP3). The Virtual learning environment that will incorporate the VOOC course will also be delivered to ease the training process and disseminate project results beyond the 6 EU countries (WP4). Strategically, the project will put a lot of emphasis on VET providers, higher education institutes, and policy-makers at all levels, since they can make the difference in applying and adopting project results.
European Commission, Erasmus+ Programme
Project number: 2022-1-LT01-KA220-VET-000086077
CIIE/UPorto, Portugal
UTRIP, Slovenia
Social Mind, Greece
SOSU Ostjylland, Denmark
Social and Medical Services Directorate, Romania