KEEPCARING

Starts: 01/07/24

Ends: 01/07/28

Future Proofing Health- and Care Systems Safeguarding Health Care Workers in Hospital Settings

Scope and objectives

The aim of this project is to (re-)build wellbeing and resilience of the healthcare workforce in EU hospitals in the surgical pathway, and to promote onboarding and staying in the workplace through the following specific objectives:

to identify new factors that influence job resources, resilience and stress in (aspiring) healthcare professionals;
to empower the hospital workforce (including students) in the surgical pathway by evaluating the (cost-) effectiveness of existing (digital) tools and by further augmenting these tools based on user insights; and by developing guidance on how to improve individual resilience using these tools in optimal combination fitting personal needs (‘personalised prevention’);
to support healthcare professionals and students in the dynamics of joint interaction in teams, to identify leadership styles and strategies (‘towards a safer and supportive working place’) towards supporting teams;
to support hospital organisations to understand what factors to consider - and how they are likely to play out - in making decisions for sustaining a healthy, inclusive and diversified workforce;
and finally, based on our insights, to develop, validate, and valorise a data-driven Artificial Intelligence (AI)- prediction model to be embedded in an online Change Management Platform (CMP), which is able to forecast which interventions under which circumstances contribute towards a more resilient hospital working environment.

ECHAlliance role

Within the KEEPCARING project, ECHAlliance leads activities related to communication, dissemination and maximising impact, aiming at designing and implementing the strategy and actions that the consortium will follow for raising awareness on project attainments, disseminating them to the relevant audience, with a view to achieve their sustainability during and after the project, results scale up and greater societal impact.

Consortium

The KEEPCARING consortium is a unique collaboration of 20 academic and non-academic organizations across 11 European countries, bringing together leading experts to improve the resilience and well-being of healthcare professionals and students. The consortium combines extensive experience in healthcare innovation, psychology, AI, and digital health solutions, with a particular focus on reducing workplace stress and enhancing resilience through digital interventions and team-based solutions.