New Perspectives in Science Education

The European project Med&Lang Palliative Care is funded by the European Commission in the framework of the Erasmus+ Programme, KA2 Strategic Partnership for higher education. The aim of the project is to create open digital educational resources in the field of palliative medicine based on developing innovative guidelines on standardized fundamental medical protocols and clinical language and communication skills for supporting the learning/teaching processes of the medical lecturers, of the language teachers who teach medical students, of medical students, and of the lay people involved in causalities. Palliative care must be an integral part of a country’s health care system, and as such it must be an element of comprehensive health care plans, and of specific programmes concerning, for instance, cancer, Aids or geriatrics. Aiming to maintain the best possible quality of life for patients with advanced diseases, palliative care requires a coordinated input from a highly-skilled and adequately resourced interdisciplinary and multi-professional team. In order to reach this objective, the Med&Lang project brings together expertise of 9 partners from Romania, Belgium, Italy and Spain: Gr.T.Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy (RO), Transilvania University (RO), Fundatia EuroEd (RO), IRO - Istitutul Regional de Oncologie Iasi (RO), Karel De Grote Hogeschool Katholieke Hogeschool (BE), Universidad Europea De Madrid (ES), Azienda Sanitaria Locale TO3 (IT), Pixel Associazione Culturale (IT), and Connectis (IT). The path toward achieving the project goals includes a number of activities, such as national research on literature and practice about palliative care; elaboration of the guide of operational procedures on palliative medicine; validation of the protocols on operational procedures on palliative medicine in the world of work; development of videos as support for protocols generated; creation of linguistic worksheets on aspects of vocabulary, grammar and communication; training activities.