National seminar in Greece

Organizer: Doctors of the World-Greece

Date: 17th  of July, 2018

Location: Offices of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Lesvos, Greece. 

The aim of the National Seminar was toshare the experience of designing and delivering a KHub for preparing health professionals and volunteers dealing with migrants and refugees; to share the learning and networking activities that can be undertaken on the KHub;to raise awareness about  the advantages and challenges of using the KHub to provide  emotional and  psychological support  for migrants and refugees; to provide a hands-on experience  of using the KHub 's training guide;to gain the participants' views and suggestions regarding the sustainability of our project results.

Participants: 

A total of 57 participants attended the national seminar in Lesvos,Greece on the 17th July 2018. Participants included nurses, health  practitioners, social workers, interpreters, volunteers, staff & managers,as well as psychologists, lawyers and welfare officers.Participants came from various organizations as well as state bodies, namely Morias Reception & Identification Center, the General Hospital
of Lesvos, KETHEA, the Hellenic Center for Disease Control & Prevention, Synyparxis, Caritas Hellas, the International Rescue Committee (IRC), METAdrasis, Praxis, Iliaktida AMKE. Among those attending were 12
people from the Doctors of the World – Greece medical team which is present and operates at the refugee camp of Kara Tepe in Lesvos.

The topics of the seminars included:

• Presentation and overview of the IENE programmes
• Presentation of the IENE 6 project’s activities and output
• Presentation of the Knowledge Hub website and mobile application
• Guiding on how to navigate the Knowledge Hub
• Presentation on the subject “Interpreting in humanitarian settings”
• Discussion to exchange ideas on ways to use the project results
• Feedback for measuring the potential impact of the project’soutputs by administrating evaluation questionnaires to the participants

Short term impact on the participants:

• Increased awareness, sensitivity and knowledge about refugees’ issues
• Increased knowledge about the refugees’ and migrants’ health needs
• Increased knowledge about providing emotional support to for refugees and migrants
• New opportunities to share and exchange, as well as the creation of alliances for future collaborations and networking on the KHub

Long term impact of the project outputs (KHub)

• Reinforcing vocational education and training through innovative practices
• Increasing quality of education and training, health workforce development and training
• Reinforcing education and support for disadvantaged people
• Addressing main challenges to respond to sudden, large-scale arrivals of migrants
• Promoting active participation and European democratic values

Documents

• Agenda of the seminar
• Presentations
  1. Presentation of the results of the ERASMUS + Project "IENE6"
  2. Presentation of KHUB Platform www.ienerefugeehub.eu 
• Info packs for participants
  1. Invitation for seminar
• Report on the seminar