The final Transnational Project Meeting of STEP_UP | Stop Epidemic Growth Through Learning took place on the last week of February in Frankfurt, Germany. We now say goodbye to the consortium that worked together since December 2020 aiming to introduce social care and community stakeholders to the impact of behaviours in the spread of a…Continue Reading STEP_UP partners wrapped up the project in Frankfurt
On 29 November, the STEP_UP Multiplier Event took place in Frankfurt am Main, hosted by the Public Health Department of the municipality. Visitors were informed and handed out at a stall designed for the STEP_UP project. In a panel discussion, the making of the STEP_UP game was presented, and representatives of the Health Department reported…Continue Reading STEP_UP Multiplier Event in Germany
On January 25, 2023 WISE ANGLE developed its own multiplier event as part of the STEP_UP dissemination activities envisioned in the Erasmus+ Framework. The STEP_UP toolkit (including the online game, manual of social and policy measures, alongside the trainer manual) constitutes the main otuput of this project in the frame of easily accessible, non-formal/informal adult…Continue Reading STEP_UP Multiplier Event in Spain organised by Wise Angle
By Willeke van Staalduinen and Jonas Bernitt (AFEdemy) The need to improve societal communication and the monitoring of measures is one of the main conclusions in the STEP_UP survey. A total of 133 people answered the questionnaire that the STEP_UP project team (WISE, ISIS, AFEdemy, SHINE and the Croatian health institute) shared among social, healthcare…Continue Reading COVID-19 measures. Results of a survey
In May 2022, AFEdemy performed interviews with 2 female and 2 male policy makers from municipalities and ministries about the STEP_UP character Britta Johnson. The interviews took place online; the scenes of the game were presented to the interviewees. In general, the interviewees were very interested in the game and found the scenes very attractive….Continue Reading Facial expressions really matter
Following the work done over the past year, SHINE 2Europe has once again relied on the support of nurses and formal carers of older adults to see for the first time the outcome of the STEP_UP game, an educational game that promises to teach how to minimize the damage and risks of a pandemic. In…Continue Reading In Portugal, nurses and carers saw for the first time the results of the STEP_UP game
Project coordinator: Carina Dantas and Luis Dias from SHINE 2Europe Q: Why did you initiate the STEP_UP project? This is actually a family story! I was doing the “fitness walk” with my son Daniel during the confinement period and we were talking about how contradictory information was on the best measures to implement due to…Continue Reading Interview with project coordinator SHINE 2Europe and the Croatian Institute of Public Health
On March 31, Carina Dantas participated in the Interactions Symposium of Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa, where she discussed, together with other speakers, the challenges of aging in the digital age to an audience of more than 200 participants. She presented NET4Age-Friendly e SHAFE and SHINE 2Europe Erasmus projects such as STEP_UP, BIG, SDD…Continue Reading Interactions Symposium of Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa