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VR environments provide students with the opportunity to be immersed in a highly realistic, vivential first-person learning experience that only requires a VR headset. Once the student puts on the headset, she/he is transported to the context relevant for...

ITSHEC’s first VR pilot is a complete success story!5 (1)
One of the main objectives of ITSHEC project is to design, pilot, implement and evaluate teaching-learning strategies for undergraduate and postgraduate training that aim to address learning outcomes based on Transversal Skills. The key skills that will be...

Multiplier Event “Challenges and discussion on transversal skills training in the health field: Learnings from ITSHEC project”5 (1)
The Multiplier event “Challenges and discussion on transversal skills training in the health field: Learnings from ITSHEC project” was held on April 27th, 2023 at the Campus Universitari Mar, Barcelona, Spain. All partners from Barcelona participated in this...

Multiplier event “Strategies to develop students and professionals’ transversal skills”5 (1)
The Multiplier event “Strategies to develop students and professionals’ transversal skills” of ITSHEC project was held on March 10, 2023 at the University of Split, School of Medicine, Split, Croatia. All partners participated in this multiplier event...

ITSHEC’s Training activity “Capacity building on teaching-learning strategies to support students’ transversal skills development”5 (2)
ITSHEC’s Training activity “Capacity building on teaching-learning strategies to support students’ transversal skills development” comprised a 5-day training program offered to Healthcare and Social Sciences Teachers. The goal was to provide teachers with both...

Metropolia University publishes an article “Transversal skills – new competences for international working life”5 (2)
Transversal skills – new competences for international working life Changes in working life, mobility of people and diverse careers require, in addition to profession-specific skills, transversal skills common to all fields (UNESCO 2016). They are accentuated...

Metropolia University presented ‘Transversal Skills as Support and Strengthening of Client Relations’ in Social Work Research Days 2023 (Finland)5 (1)
The presentation ‘Transversal Skills as Support and Strengthening of Client Relations’ was given at the University of Helsinki, in Social Work Research Days 2023, on February 15–16. The theme of the days was Social Work and Diversity ...

Multiplier Event “Changing working life and transversal skills” in Helsinki (Finland)5 (2)
The Multiplier Event “Changing working life and transversal skills” will take place in Helsinki, Finland, on Tuesday 8th of November, at Metropolia University of...

Intensive Program on Virtual Reality in Helsinki (Finland)5 (2)
ITSHEC’s Intensive Program on Virtual Reality comprised a Virtual Reality 5-day training program offered to Master’s degree and degree students in Healthcare and Social Sciences. The goal was to provide students with both theoretical and practical first-hand...

ITSHEC holds a Virtual Reality training for students from Healthcare and Social Sciences5 (2)
“Intensive Program on Virtual Reality” comprises a Virtual Reality training offer to Master’s degree and degree students in Healthcare and Social Sciences to provide students with both theoretical...

“Transversal skills for humanization of technology for health and social wellbeing” – International Summer School5 (2)
The International Summer School - “Transversal skills for humanization of technology for health and social wellbeing” took place in Barcelona, Spain, between 4th and 8th, July 2022....

Metropolia University publishes the post “Peer learning and cooperative learning support students’ transversal skills development in interprofessional and multicultural context”5 (1)
According to Buting (2020), students’ knowledge and skills improve during peer learning. More importantly, shifts in their mindsets and worldviews are also important results of peer learning...

ITSHEC presents its Methodological Guide at HEAd’22 congress5 (1)
The ITSHEC project had a special participation in the 8th International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd'22), held from 15 to 17 July at the Faculty of...

3rd TRANSNATIONAL PROJECT MEETING in Split (Croatia)0 (0)
The 3rd Transnational Project Meeting of the ITSHEC project took place on 19-20th May 2022 in the University of Split (School of Medicine, Split, Croatia). This meeting allowed all partners to meet us in person because the previous Transnational Project Meetings were...

ITSHEC partner explains the project in the Day of Innovation projects presentation of Pompeu Fabra University0 (0)
Center for Learning Innovation and Knowledge (CLIK) is a higher education center of reference from Pompeu Fabra University that aims to promote innovation...

Metropolia University publishes the post “Trust as a transversal skill”0 (0)
Team members who trust one another can better communicate and coordinate behaviors, given their openness, familiarity, and reliability. Meaning of trust in multi- and interprofessional social and health care teamwork is essential, to understand and create a more...

INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL – “Transversal skills for humanization of technology for health and social wellbeing” – Applications open0 (0)
“Transversal skills for humanization of technology for health and social wellbeing” - International Summer School comprises a training offer to health and social care students about...

First IO4 Virtual meeting working group: Brainstorming on the learning situations to build Virtual Reality scenarios on0 (0)
On Friday January 21st the ITSHEC partners celebrated the first IO4 virtual meeting working group. The goal of this meeting was to start designing the Virtual Reality applications to...

Metropolia University publishes the post “Interprofessional Approach for Transversal Skills in Higher Education”0 (0)
Current and future challenges of societies need multi- and interdisciplinary, but also interprofessional approaches for us to adapt to and solve unpredictable situations and...

ITSHEC Project Presentation Video0 (0)
https://youtu.be/feqIa-QXDQI Today we are very happy to share with you ITSHEC’s presentation video. In this video, partners and principal investigators of ITSHEC explain the main goals of the project, that is to design, pilot, implement and evaluate...

ITSHEC investigators explain the project in the “First PROMISE multiplier event” held by the Erasmus+ project PROMISE0 (0)
Project PROMISE - Personalized Medicine Inquiry-Based Education is a Erasmus+ project coordinated by the Mediterranean Institute for Life Sciences (MedILS). The PROMISE project seeks to prepare medical and science students for the rapidly changing landscape of...

Sharing the first output of the project: A Methodological Guide for teaching-learning methodologies of Transversal Skills0 (0)
ITSHEC has started effectively and with a strong spirit of co-creation. We are finishing a deep phase of research about Transversal Skills, whose results will be the epistemic basis of all the tools and materials provided to students, teachers and the health and...

More than 30 international students have participated in the Focus Groups0 (0)
In the ITSHEC project, cooperation and co-creation with the stakeholders involved is elementary. This commitment to involve all stakeholders is strategic as it allows citizens to play an active role in democracy and foster the development of flexible learning...

International Master Summer School at Metropolia University of Applied Sciences – Finland0 (0)
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