Bring TEAMCARE to Your Region

Join a TEAMCARE Twinning Partnership

Would your organisation like to adapt and implement the TEAMCARE Curriculum in a new educational, organisational or regional context?

TEAMCARE Twinning Partnerships connect organisations interested in adopting the Curriculum with one of the four pilot teams that have localised and tested the TEAMCARE approach in Ireland, Italy, Greece and Poland.

Through tailored knowledge exchange, prospective adopters can learn from the pilot experience, assess the transferability of the Curriculum, identify the adaptations required in their context and prepare the next steps towards implementation.

Start a twinning conversation with RSCN

Contact one of the TEAMCARE pilots

What is a TEAMCARE Twinning Partnership?

A TEAMCARE Twinning Partnership is a practice-oriented cooperation between:

• an originating organisation, which has experience in localising or implementing the TEAMCARE Curriculum; and

• an adopting organisation, which is interested in transferring and adapting the Curriculum to a new setting.

A twinning may begin with an exploratory exchange and progressively develop into a structured knowledge-transfer and implementation pathway.

Depending on the interests, readiness and available resources of the organisations involved, cooperation may include peer-learning meetings, exchange of implementation experiences, analysis of barriers and enabling factors, curriculum localisation, course design, stakeholder engagement and preparation of a future implementation plan.

A twinning partnership does not automatically provide funding, accreditation or formal recognition. These aspects remain subject to the applicable national and institutional frameworks and may require additional agreements between the competent organisations.

Who can become a Twinning Partner?

The twinning opportunity is open to organisations interested in using, adapting or supporting the implementation of the TEAMCARE training package, including:

• higher education institutions;

• vocational education and training providers;

• continuing professional development and lifelong learning providers;

• health and social care organisations;

• regional and national public authorities;

• professional, regulatory and accreditation bodies;

• research and training organisations;

• regional, national and European health and care networks.

Organisations do not need to be ready to implement the full Curriculum immediately. A twinning can also support an initial feasibility assessment or the exploration of a shorter or context-specific learning pathway.

What can you explore through a Twinning Partnership?

A twinning pathway can be tailored to the adopter’s needs and may address:

Curriculum localisation

Selecting the TEAMCARE modules and learning outcomes that are most relevant to the local target group, workforce needs and institutional context.

Course design and delivery

Exploring appropriate delivery formats, including face-to-face, online, blended and work-based learning.

ECTS and micro-credentials

Examining workload, credit allocation, assessment, certification and possible micro-credential pathways in line with applicable institutional and national rules.

Interprofessional learning

Learning how to recruit and engage professionals from different health and social care disciplines and support collaborative learning.

Stakeholder engagement

Involving education providers, health and social care organisations, public authorities, professional bodies and prospective learners.

Quality and sustainability

Identifying the resources, quality assurance arrangements, partnerships and longer-term conditions required to implement and sustain the training.

How does the Twinning process work?

1. Express your interest

Contact RSCN or one of the four TEAMCARE pilot teams and provide some initial information about your organisation, context and interest in TEAMCARE.

2. Identify the most relevant pilot experience

RSCN can help connect your organisation with the pilot whose experience is most relevant to your needs, institutional setting or planned training pathway.

3. Hold an exploratory meeting

The originating and adopting organisations discuss needs, objectives, existing training provision, target groups, possible barriers and available resources.

4. Define a knowledge-transfer pathway

The organisations identify the topics and activities to be covered, the people involved, an indicative timetable and the expected results of the cooperation.

5. Prepare for localisation and implementation

Where appropriate, the adopter develops a localisation and implementation plan, drawing on the TEAMCARE Curriculum, tools, guidance and lessons learned from the pilot.

6. Share experience and support wider scaling-up

Twinning partners may continue exchanging implementation experience and contribute to the TEAMCARE Community of Inquiry and wider scaling-up activities.