“STRENCO” aims to strengthen collaboration between academics and students, service users and practitioners and develop tools to assess multi-professional competences for mental health students in an international context.
The project has a core theme of working collaboratively in mental health with the emphasis on co-production in approaches. The project has three key objectives to develop:
- a tripartite approach to working in mental health, which emphasises the knowledge triangle, between education, research and work (in line with the EU Modernisation Agenda), seeing service users, practitioners, and the University (academics and students), as partners in the development of new knowledge and a way of working, which values and respects those involved.
- co-produced e-learning materials for students, service users, practitioners and the wider public in line with the EU Commission’s Modernisation of Higher Education Agenda emphasises the development of new modes of learning and teaching in higher education.
- a competency assessment for mental health and Erasmus general, that will strengthen multi-professional competencies in mental health professionals in international context.
The aim is that this transnational co-operation will allow for the development of best practices and learning from the different members of the group’s diverse experiences, to enable the creation of new and innovative learning opportunities. By harnessing different working methods and experiences across countries, all parties will benefit and have greater knowledge and understanding that would be impossible in using a single national perspective. It is also hoped, that active dissemination from the project will allow for the wider public to learn from the co-produced open source materials and methods developed over the course of the project.
Project Τitle: “STRENCO. Strengthening multi-professional competencies in mental health in an international context, through co-production with academics, students, service users and professionals”
Project Duration:1 September 2017 – 31 August 2020
Project URL: www.strenco.eu
Project Framework & Funding:
Erasmus+ KA2 Strategic Partnerships
Funding: 313.135,00€ (UNIWA: 45.327,00€)
Principal Investigator (TCD): Dr. Mark Monahan, Email: monahanm@tcd.ie
Principal Investigator (UNIWA): Dr. Evanthia Sakellari, Email: sakellari@uniwa.gr, Tel: +30 213 – 2010131
Consortium – Partners:
- Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (Coordinator)
- Tampere University of Applied Sciences, Finland
- Jyväskylä University of Applied Sciences, Finland
- University of Salford, UK
- Vives University of Applied Sciences, Belgium
- University of West Attica, Greece
Research Publications / Results / Patents (up to 3)
- Monahan M., Mestdagh J., Callens J., Sakellari E., Maerten T. Seynhaeve S., Teerlinck J., Verbrugghe N., Schoultz M., McGlynn L., Brennan M., Raitio K., Kiiskilä T., Savolainen J., Kivimaki A., Higgins A., Morrissey J., Noctor C., Kilkku N., Prapas C., Lagiou A., Murphy N., Vasilica C. Using co-production in an engineering department to teach international healthcare students mental health promotion. Trinity Health and Education International Research Conference (THEconf2020), 4-5 March 2020. Dublin, Ireland.
- Seynhaeve S., Mestdagh J., Callens J., Maerten T., Brennan M., Noctor C., Higgins A., Morrissey J., Hurley B., Kilkku N., Kivimaki A., Savolainen J., Sakellari E., Lagiou A., Prapas C., Schoultz M., Vasilica C., Murphy N., Raitio K., Monahan M. Co-producing mental health competencies: An international collaboration. 5th Horatio Congress, 9-12 May 2019. Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Kilkku N., Kivimaki A., Savolainen J., Seynhaeve S., Mestdagh J., Callens J., Maerten T., Sakellari E., Lagiou A., Prapas C., Schoultz M., Vasilica C., Murphy N., Raitio K., Brennan M., Noctor C., Higgins A., Morrissey J., Hurley B., Monahan M. Developing an understanding co-production in an international context. 5th Horatio Congress, 9-12 May 2019. Copenhagen, Denmark.
