We are glad to announce that the TEAMS Training Package has been endorsed by the Emergency Medical Teams (EMT) Secretariat of the World Health Organization!
The TEAMS project Consortium invite you to the FINAL EVENT of the TEAMS project that will take place on December 5th 2018. The event is hosted by Manchester University and starts at 17:30 (UK Time) and lasts until 18:45.
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Please find below the meeting agenda:
17.30: Welcome & brief history of EMT – Tony Redmond (HCRI)
17.35: Introduction to the TEAMS Project – Luca Ragazzoni (CRIMEDIM)
17.45: Development of the Curriculum Framework – Adele Aubrey (HCRI)
17.55: Description of the Training Package – Nieves Amat Camacho (KI) (recorded video)
18.05: Pilot Training in Germany – Sandra Oefele (HUM)
18.15: Pilot Training in Turkey – Kurtulus Aciksari (IMU) (recorded video)
18.25: Evaluation the TEAMS Training Package – Moran Bodas (TAU) )
18.35: TEAMS 2.0: The Training of the Trainer Curriculum Framework – Darren Walter (HCRI)
18.45: Closing remarks – Tony Redmond (HCRI) / Luca Ragazzoni (CRIMEDIM)
An innovative operational training package focused on teamwork and simulation exercises to assist any emergency medical team in preparing for deployment.
Project financed by DG ECHO.
From the 22nd to 25th October 2018 in Istanbul.
The TEAMS Pilot training was held in Istanbul (Turkey) on 22nd-25th October 2018.
From the 3rd to the 6th of September – Isree (Germany).
The TEAMS Pilot training was held in Isree (Germany).
The event, decisively co-designed and hosted by humedica, was contributed to ameliorate the coordination process of the various players, who are involved in worldwide disaster relief work, as well as to establish and safeguard appropriate standards.
Click here to see the Training Evaluation Report.
On June 2018, Istambul
The coordinator of TEAMS project, Dr. Luca Ragazzoni, met with the Turkish colleagues from the University of Istanbul to discuss and facilitate preparations of the Turkish Field Hospital to the pilot training scheduled for October 2018.
On 4th – 7th September 2018, Munich
The coordinator of TEAMS project, Dr. Luca Ragazzoni, met with the German colleagues from Humedica e.V. in Munich to discuss preparations of the German EMT to the pilot training scheduled for September 2018.
The German colleagues are expected to meet their preparation goals ahead of time. The successful meeting concluded with a complete agenda for the pilot training week, which will take place between 4th-7th September, 2018.
On June 2018, Munich
The coordinator of TEAMS project, Dr. Luca Ragazzoni, met with the Swedish colleagues from Karolinska Institute in Stockholm to finalize the TEAMS Training Pakcage. Upon the successful completion of this meeting, the TEAMS Training Package now includes eight complete training modules covering a wide variety of aspects of EMT field deployment, from preparation, through data management, adapting to local context, dealing with a mass-casualty incident, all the way to exit strategy and security threats.
On 13-14 March 2018 the TEAMS internal meeting and TEAMS 2.0 Kick-off meeting was held in Tel-Aviv (Israel). These meetings were held with the aim of promoting the work done to develop a training package for Emergency Medical Teams, funded by the European Commission.
During the meeting the colleagues from Karolinska Institute and CRIMEDIM presented the progress in generating the training materials for the eight exercises developed in the TEAMS framework. The consortium discussed the layout of the exercises and their content. The colleagues from TAU presented the concept for the evaluation of the training package.
During the second day of meeting, Dr. Ragazzoni, as project’s coordinator, presented the newly granted, sequel project TEAMS 2.0 and its aims. TEAMS 2.0 will focus on developing a complementary Training of Trainers (ToT) package. The project will allow EMTs that do not currently have training capacities to benefit from the TEAMS training package.
On December 2017, Stockholm
The TEAMS 2.0 Project was kicked-off at the European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Operations (ECHO) HQs in Bruxelles (Belgium) in January 2018.
TEAMS 2.0 will focus on developing a complementary Training of Trainers (ToT) package. The project will allow EMTs that do not currently have training capacities to benefit from the TEAMS training package. Read more here.
