EUVECA - European platform for VET excellence in health care

EUVECA is an ERASMUS+ project designed to support the needed innovation and development of the health care sector. It seeks to ensure the provision of future-oriented skills within the sector. This will be done through the creation of Regional Vocational Excellence Hubs in 7 European regions, which collaborate within a European Platform for Vocational Excellence in Health Care.

The overall ambition of the EUVECA project is to show that by including a strategic and coordinated focus on VET in the work and collaboration within the regional health ecosystems, VET can contribute in a substantial way to move innovation forward within the European health care sector and ensure the sustainability of the sector on both a European and regional level.

EUVECA overall objectives: 1. Increasing the quality and attractiveness of vocational training and lifelong learning within the European health care sector and within health care education. 2. Contribute to the implementation of the European skills agenda by ensuring continuous and high quality VET to professionals in the health care sector focusing on improved and tailored lifelong skills training, covering 21st century skills. 3. Contribute to the implementation of the European Education Area by creating long term sustainable collaboration within higher education and VET.

The EUVECA partnership is set up as a multi stakeholder partnership with partners from 8 EU countries. The partnes and their regional stakeholders will cocreate a governance model and concrete education and training activities for the seven regional hubs. A European platform will be developed, tested, finetuned and made sustainable to uptake regional partnerships beyond the partnership.:

Toghether the partnership represents: 

8 research and educational institutions representing EQF levels from 2 to 8: Western Norway University of applied sciences (NO) Polytechnic University of Valencia (ES) University of Valencia (ES) University of Lubeck (DE) Ljubljana University (SL) Saxion University of Applied Science (NL) University of Twente (NL) Fondazione Bruno Kessler (IT)

6 health care providers: Hospital of Southern Jutland (DK) UKSH Academy, Lubeck University Hospital (DE) Community Health Centre Ljubljana (SL) Ziekenhuisgroep Twente (NL) Region Nordhordland Helsehus IKS and Haukeland University Hospital (NO) Autonomous Province of Trento (Department of health and Social Policies) (IT) 

4 regional development agencies:Region of Southern Denmark & South Denmark European Office (DK) Think East (NL) Region Nordhordland (NO) Autonomous Province of Trento (Department of health and Social Policies) (IT)