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Manuel Lillo-Crespo

and isolations. Digital education also advocates for those unable to move for
different reasons (pathologies, disabilities, movement restrictions, among
others). Since the beginning, the EC has been witnessing and continuously
advancing the idea of one world without boundaries where free mobility of
citizenship, including professionals from different fields, is the target. Some of
these proposals directly included one digital outcome compared with other
previous projects whose objectives resulted in the production of knowledge
and outcomes ready to be transferred later on to the digital world.
In the case of the ISTEW Project, Improvement Science Training for Europe-
an Healthcare Workers, several modules were developed though not digitally
approached. With the principle aim to develop shared academic and prac-
tice based programmes that could enable European universities to build im-
provement capability and capacity within their own healthcare workforce,
through engagement with students based on an agreed scope of practice,
essential knowledge base, and improvement science competence across
partner countries; ISTEW ended in 15 and resulted with: four new accred-
ited evidence informed healthcare improvement science modules, a new
consensus definition of Healthcare Improvement Science, the evidence on
the specific nature of Healthcare Improvement Science in seven European
countries, the current state of Healthcare Improvement Science education in
seven European countries, and a framework to evaluate the impact of educa-
tion on practice (MacRae et al., 16; Lillo-Crespo et al., 17; Lillo-Crespo & Si-
erras-Davó, 19; Lillo-Crespo et al., 19; Skela-Savič et al., 17; Sierras-Davó
et al., 1). The Dementia Palliare Project, Equipping the qualified dementia
workforce to champion evidence informed improvements to Advanced Demen-
tia Care & Family Caring through education, did one step further by design-
ing and creating a Community of Practice (CoP) based on the best available
evidence on experimental learning. The Community of Practice gives prac-
titioners access to resources and an opportunity to participate in discussion
forums in multiple languages. It was a space for those interested in advanced
dementia to share an learn from one another. Moreover four modules on ad-
vanced dementia care for health and social care professionals across Europe
were developed and delivered online by the consortium from seven coun-
tries and are accessible to professionals across the globe. These will enhance
the impact of modern universities to provide professional life long learning
and their commitment to offer evidence based education that maximises the
quality of the student experience (Tolson et al., 16; Lillo-Crespo et al., 18).
E-motion Project, Lights4Violence Project and Demophac Project as well as
the previously mentioned only produced podcasts, videos, educational re-

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