he DELAROSE Project, a pan-European consortium of Universities and disability service organisation co-ordinated by SETU, held its second steering group meeting at Guy’s Hospital in London on May 2nd 2014. DELAROSE stands for Delivering E Learning Accredit
The DELAROSE Project, a pan-European consortium of Universities and disability service organisation co-ordinated by SETU, held its second steering group meeting at Guy’s Hospital in London on May 2nd 2014.
DELAROSE stands for Delivering E Learning Accreditation to Reduce Occupational Stress in Employment and is funded by Léargas under the Transfer of Innovation of the EU Leonardo da Vinci funding scheme. It builds on the previously successful ROSE project, (www.leonardorose.eu), which developed an online self-help suite of interventions to support health and social care workers to manage their own stress.
The DELAROSE project aims to develop ROSE further through the addition of supplementary support material to support workers and to give them the opportunity to gain academic credits from one of three higher education institutions in Europe (WIT, in Ireland; the Karl Franzens University (KFU) in Graz, Austria and the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland - SUPSI) by completing the online programme. Another unique aspect of the DELAROSE project is that it will develop a table of equivalency between the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) with the European Credit for Vocational Education and Training system (ECVET), to facilitate mobility and credit recognition between the three HEIs that will offer the programme. As such it will be the first programme in an HEI in Ireland to use ECVET as well as ECTS.
At the London meeting, which was hosted by Professor Trudie Chalder from King’s College London, the project work package leads outlined to the rest of the DELAROSE team progress of the project to date for each work package. The aim is to run a pilot DELAROSE programme in 2015 in SETU, KFU and SUPSI in order to refine online delivery and test assessments. If successful, the full DELAROSE programme will be available to the health and social care sector from 2016.
The DELAROSE SETU team consists of Professor John Wells and Dr Michael Bergin from the School of Health Sciences and Dr Richard Hayes from the School of Humanities. Other members of the project team, in addition to the listed HEIs, are King’s College London and the University of Lincoln from the UK; the European Association of Service Providers for People with Disabilities, based in Belgium; the National Federation of Voluntary Bodies and Cluain from Ireland; Promente Steirmark from Austria.