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

AFEdemy, partner in the Erasmus+ project STEP_UP | Stop epidemic growth through learning, organised a Multiplier Event on 11 January 2023. 12 participants took part in the event, including 5 board members of student association A.S.L.V. Quintus from Leiden, students from the study association Leidsche Flesch and 2 invited guests. The plenary session was given…Continue Reading STEP_UP Multiplier Event in the Netherlands

The Croatian Institute of Public Health (CIPH), partner in the Erasmus+ project STEP_UP | Stop epidemic growth through learning, organized a Multiplier Event on November 25th . The event included 38 participants, reaching 27 participants from regional public health institutes and 11 from CIPH. In the plenary session, Željka Draušnik, from CIPH, presented the project, explaining its main objectives…Continue Reading STEP_UP Multiplier Event in Croatia

The multiplier event of the Erasmus+ project STEP_UP | Stop epidemic growth through learning reached 52 international participants, 32 Portuguese ones and 13 project team members on November 9th at the Nursing School of Coimbra, integrated in the International Conference Learning and Implementing Social Innovation. STEP_UP has been developing a training tool based on an educational game, which aims…Continue Reading STEP_UP multiplied to almost 100 participants!

The Multiplier Event of the European Project STEP_UP: Stop epidemic growth through learning will be held on 9 November 2022, from 9.00 am to 5.00 pm, in a face-to-face and hybrid format, at the Nursing School of Coimbra. STEP_UP is an Erasmus+ project, coordinated by SHINE 2Europe, which during the last two years has developed…Continue Reading Multiplier Event of the STEP_UP project

On November 8th and 9th, we will talk about Smart Healthy Age-friendly Environments and Social Innovation in Coimbra. This conference is co-organised by the Nursing School of Coimbra, SHINE 2Europe and AFEdemy, and aims to share and discuss approaches, projects and best practices related to Social Innovation and how to implement and develop healthier and…Continue Reading International Conference: Learning and Implementing Social Innovation

Wise Angle hosted the partners’ staff from the STEP_UP consortium for a Short-term Joint Staff Training in Barcelona. Participants of this LTTAs were relevant personnel members of the partner organisations, who were offered with a short training course of the STEP_UP game and workshop curriculum. The group of participants reflected the multidisciplinary approach of the…Continue Reading Train the trainers to STEP_UP!

Wise Angle hosted the project partners in Barcelona for the 4th Transnational Project Meeting! On June 27-28, representatives of the 5 partners in the project gathered in Barcelona, wonderfully hosted at Wise Angle’s new premises in the Barcelona Health Hub. The working session was very intense and focused on seeing the first version of the…Continue Reading STEP_UP partners in Barcelona

In this second newsletter find out more about the project from our partners AFEdemy and Wise Angle and learn more about the work carried out so far.  STEP_UP Newsletter #2…Continue Reading STEP_UP second newsletter is out now! 

At the end of May 2022, the second workshop round for the design of the STEP_UP game in Germany was performed. Two volunteers participated in the face-to-face meetings. The volunteers mainly had suggestions regarding the usability, e.g., the selection of languages and that the possibility to choose between characters should be explained more clearly. The…Continue Reading STEP_UP Workshop in Germany

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

[This document represents a summary of the current Spanish strategy for fighting against COVID-19 (as available at the end of April 2022) produced by the Spanish researchers of the Erasmus+ STEP_UP project]  At the end of March 2022, the Spanish government finally presented and activated the new national “Strategy of Vigilance and Control against COVID-19…Continue Reading New Vigilance and Control Strategy against COVID-19 for Spain. Seeking the “fluisation” and “endemisation” of the Virus.

Representatives from the partners of Step-Up consortium attended the third transnational meeting of the project, which took place on 5 and 6 April in Zagreb, Croatia. This project, whose main result will be an educational game to raise awareness of how to deal with a pandemic, aims to develop adult education tools with particular emphasis…Continue Reading STEP_UP project partners in Croatia

By Willeke van Staalduinen, AFEdemy, Academy on Age-Friendly Environments in Europe B. V. (willeke@afedemy.eu). On April 1st 2022, the Dutch government released its view on the long-term strategy for COVID-19. The government considers that in March 2022, most corona rules went away and The Netherlands is open again. The government would like to keep it…Continue Reading Long-term strategy with Corona, The Netherlands

PLEASE SHARE YOUR EXPERTISE BY COMPLETING THIS SURVEY: https://www.surveymonkey.de/r/STEP_UP_evaluation_survey Can you share your experiences with us on working with the Coronavirus outbreak and the measures for containing it? The aim of the STEP_UP e-survey is to learn more from your experiences on working during the pandemic period and the measures that were taken or recommended…Continue Reading TELL US YOUR VIEWS – EVALUATION OF COVID-19 MEASURES

Potential measures to stop the spreading of the COVID-19 virus have been explored and categorized by the STEP_UP consortium. The results have been published in five partner reports: measures for early detection, prevention, healthcare and social care, and policy making. The fifth report consists of recommendations on communication. The reports are available on the STEP_UP website.   Each STEP_UP partner covered a different domain suitable…Continue Reading STEP_UP releases 5 thematic reports on COVID-19 measures

In this first newsletter, along with the background of the project and the work carried out so far, you will also be able to learn about the project coordinator SHINE 2Europe and the Croatian Institute of Public Health (CIPH)….Continue Reading Our first newsletter is on

Almost one year ago, the STEP_UP game project started (Stop epidemic growth through learning, Erasmus+ KA2 Action, 2020-2023). Coordinator is SHINE 2Europe and as partner AFEdemy is responsible for the production of the Manual on social and policy interventions. The project team will develop an online serious game in which the learner can follow a chronological path…Continue Reading STEP_UP scenarios for politician well received by stakeholders

For the purposes of the development of the STEP_UP game and characters, CIPH is creating a character and scenes in the field of public health. The goal was to identify stakeholders within this sector and bring their expertise and real life experience together through a constructive workshop. During the workshop the character was presented along…Continue Reading Croatia workshops with Public Health and epidemiologists

In the frame of the activities related to the educational game development, WISE ANGLE has been tasked with consulting key stakeholders so as to feed the participatory co-creation process aimed at designing the characters, the real-life situations they will face in the playing scenarios and the measures they will have to put in place to…Continue Reading Interviews to health care managers help design the characters

The workshops that were held in the partner countries Portugal, the Netherlands, Croatia, Spain and Germany with various actors who were active in the COVID-19 pandemic serve as a basis for the elaboration of realistic challenges that players should overcome to contain a pandemic in the STEP_UP game. On the 29th of July ISIS Social…Continue Reading ISIS interviews volunteer groups to advise on the game design

The partners of the STEP_UP | Stop Epidemic Growth Through Learning project met on September 1 and 2, in the second transnational meeting of the project. The session took place in hybrid format, with some partners meeting in person in Gouda, in the Netherlands, and the others meeting online. STEP_UP is a European project, funded…Continue Reading Consortium that promises to teach how to deal with a pandemic met in the Netherlands

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

During the month of July, SHINE 2Europe consulted nurses and formal caregivers to devise scenes of a game that will teach how to fight a pandemic. Participants were brought together in two workshops and, with the help of a SHINE facilitator, made their contributions to the STEP_UP project | Stop Epidemic Growth Through Learning. This…Continue Reading Nurses and caregivers support SHINE 2Europe in the STEP_UP game development

STEP_UP: Stop Epidemic Growth Through Learning is a European Erasmus+ project started in December 2020, that will last until the end of February 2023. STEP_UP intends to develop a training tool for social care professionals, volunteers and community stakeholders, where they are introduced to the impact of behaviours in the spread of a pandemic/emergency situation…Continue Reading STEP_UP featured in EPALE

The international project STEP_UP – Stop Epidemic Growth Through Learning just launched a Virtual Library that aggregates more than 200 measures, implemented and documented in the context of the COVID19 pandemic prevention and containment. Want to have your work represented in this Virtual Library? Do you know of measures or good practices that should be…Continue Reading OPEN CALL to the COVID19 Virtual library of STEP_UP

On the 17 June, Carina Dantas, SHINE’s CEO, gave a lecture on “Ethics and Digital Health” to the students of the Universidade do Porto, based on the classical philosophical concept of ethics as the striving for the best lifestyle, both in private and in public. We discussed from #SHAFE and NET4Age-Friendly to the ethical excellence in the AAL Programme and the need…Continue Reading Lecture on “Ethics and Digital 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

The official kick-off meeting of the new international project STEP_UP: Stop Epidemic Growth Through Learning, which addresses strategies to slow pandemic growth through learning was held on the 25 March 2021. The project began in December 2020 and is funded by the European Union’s Erasmus+ program. The international coordinator is SHINE 2Europe, a Portuguese SME…Continue Reading STEP_UP – Kick-off meeting of the new game that will teach you how to stop a pandemic

Our STEP_UP webpage is already on at https://stepupgame.eu/! It is only the departing ground for our works, soon enough you will be able to see our manual and training materials. For now, take a look at the core goals and who are the partners involved. Follow us on social media with the #stepupgame….Continue Reading Our website is launched

Unfortunately the COVID pandemic did not allow us to meet in person, but as we wait for future opportunities we are meeting online and progressing with our work. Let’s hope for some field visits soon!…Continue Reading First Coordination meeting

We are so happy to have seen our STEP_UP project approved and ready to be initiated! Until the end of February 2023, STEP_UP will develop a training tool for social care and community stakeholders, where they are introduced to the impact of behaviours in the spread of a pandemic/emergency situation and trained, through gaming strategies,…Continue Reading STEP_UP is approved!