"The project has been implemented successfully under the foreseen timeframe and it has achieved all its objectives.The initial number of partners was 6, Romtens Foundation (NGO-Romania), Foundation ""Center for Safety and Health at Work"" (NGO-Bulgaria), Prolepsis (NGO-Greece), WRC (LLC-Ireland), University of Medicine and Pharmacy Victor Babes Timisoara (Public University-Romania) and Andalusian Public Heath School (Public Administration-Spain).However right after the start of the project the Andalusian Public Heath School decided to withdraw from the project due to internal financial problems; this change has been formalized via the Addendum 1 at the Contract signed by Romtens Foundation with ANPCDEFP. Accordingly the tasks & the budget of the ex-partner were redistributed amongst the 5 remaining project partners.During the project there were performed the following main activities:1. Organizing Transnational Project Meetings – there organized 5 such meetings (for more details see their descriptions).2. Producing Intellectual Outputs – there were produced 7 intellectual outputs namely O1, O2, O3, O5, O6, O9, O10 (for more details see their descriptions). Of this 7 outputs only 6 were budgeted, O1 was not budgeted. It is important to mention that after the evaluation of the project proposal out of the initial number of 13 Intellectual Outputs the evaluator decided to leave only 6 of them, namely O2, O3, O5, O6, O9, O10.3. Organizing learning activities – there were organized four learning activities: C1, C2, C3, C4 (for more details see their descriptions).4. Organizing dissemination events – there were organized 4 dissemination events namely E1, E2, E3, E4 (for more details see their descriptions). In addition to these 4 budgeted events project representatives presented (oral presentations during conferences) the project results in other 6 dissemination events for a total audience of around 2800 experts in the fields of OSH, occupational medicine and agriculture.The main intangible achieved results of the project are the following:-Enhanced capabilities of the project partners as to assemble and deliver Occupational Medicine & OSH training courses.-Enhanced competences in the areas of occupational medicine and OSH across the four countries of the project (Romania, Bulgaria, Greece and Ireland).-Enhanced knowledge, skills and capacity for a total number of 58 experts; they are as follows: 14 OSH experts, 16 occupational medicine doctors, and 28 project partners’ staff (various professions – all involved in delivering training courses in the 2 domains).-Increased awareness of the relevant professional communities totalizing more than 3000 direct participants (OSH experts, occupational medicine doctors) on the most recent and advanced information concerning their domains (OSH and occupational medicine) for the agriculture sector.The project has been extremely well regarded by the professional communities in all 4 countries and its sustainability will be clearly a successful process since the e-learning platform attracts new users."

WinWin4Worklife envisions to enable healthy, inclusive and sustainable remote working arrangements (RWA) in Europe by combining employer and employee perspectives into a single framework. The project has five key objectives and outcomes: 1) To gain an interdisciplinary understanding of how the private and work spheres interact when working remotely; 2) To assess which living and working conditions ensure a healthy work-life balance in RWA for both men and women living in urban, rural, and cross-border areas; 3) To develop forecasting models of the impacts of different scenarios of RWA on mobility, land use, air quality, noise, and health; 4) To enhance knowledge on the role of culture, regional context and welfare systems in the uptake of RWA by employees and employers; and 5) To develop a comprehensive set of evidence-based spatial policies for a sustainable implementation of RWA, based on co-creation processes with stakeholders and citizens. To do so, WinWin4WorkLife will collect novel and comprehensive data in 5 European countries (DE, FI, LU, PT, SK), selected to represent different welfare systems, housing and labour markets, and cultural norms towards remote work. Data collection consists of an employer survey focused on organizational support for RWA, impacts on skills retention and productivity, and intentions to relocate; and an employee survey complemented by interviews and a time use app covering employee circumstances, gendered RWA experiences, impacts on work-life balance and mental health, as well as residential or job relocation, and social security and taxation issues. This quantitative and qualitative data will feed custom-made spatial forecasting models to assess wider urban/rural regeneration, environmental and health impacts. Close and continuous engagement with planning, policy, business, and institutional stakeholders will ensure concrete and context-sensitive policy actions and measures for the sustainable uptake of RWA in Europe.

According to the EU Skills Panorama 2014 “health is forecast to be a growth sector, with a net increase of 1.8 million jobs across the EU between 2013 and 2025”. More specifically the report emphasizes that due to new ways of delivering health care, new roles are being created in the health care sector requiring new and diverse skills. These new and emerging skills include the ability to communicate effectively and empathise with patients (including patients from migrant and ROMA backgrounds) as well as the ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary health care team which many times may include people from very diverse non strictly medical backgrounds. In addition medical personnel require training in the use of communication technologies since these are and will be used more in the health care sector in the coming years. Patient-doctor communication is an integral part of clinical practice, as it comprises the building block upon which the physician's relationship with the patient is based on (Nelson, 2008). In fact, the way in which a doctor communicates information to a patient is equally important as the actual information being communicated. Although communication skills are highlighted as crucial and necessary for Medical Doctors there is limited availability of relevant vocational training opportunities. There is also evidence that communication skills deteriorate during residency and clinical practice years. The offered training, which will be developed, based on good practices and skill needs identification - by physicians themselves - will lead to the definition of skills and validation of competencies as well as delivery of actual training to enable physicians to improve doctor-patient relations and interdisciplinary communication between different medical specialties. The project developed a comprehensive training curriculum with accompanying material and resources which can be easily replicated across the EU. The aim of this training was to build and strengthen communication skills among medical professionals which will positively influence their work with their patients and their co-workers within the health care setting. The active involvement of the target group in the development of the training tool ensured that the needs and expectations of medical doctors were addressed while creating a more modern, dynamic, committed and professional health care environment increasing their capacity to work in a European health care environment. The training will help them grow professionally, boost productivity and in the end enhance and improve health care provision. In addition since H-COM training can also be offered as work based we anticipate to create a dynamic environment increasing opportunities for professionals’ development. The main objectives of H-COM were (1) Mapping the precise shortage of relevant training (2) Exploring the needs and perceptions of health professionals concerning communication, (3) Developing, testing, evaluating and validating training in health communication through formal Vocational Training channels (national & EU) and e-learning tools (4) Validating the training program, and identifying key skills and competencies (5) Disseminating widely the training tools, encouraging its exploitation, exchanging best practice and creating networks of cooperation. H-COM consortium comprises 6 partners from 5 countries, Poland, Greece, Cyprus, Spain and Germany. The partnership brings together scientific and research organizations, 3 universities, professional organizations and vocational training centers. NIOM, the project coordinator, is a large public research organization in Poland and one of the country’s leading centers of provision of vocational training for medical specialists with long experience in coordinating European co-funded projects, public health and vocational training initiatives, as well as education of medical professionals. Cyprus University of Technology, the Technical University of Dresden and La Laguna University offer education and high level research in leading branches of science and technology, assuming also a significant role in policy advocacy for the state and society. CARDET is the leading Research and Development center for vocational training, ICT, and e-learning, in Cyprus. They will have a pivotal role in assuring the training curriculum is developed according to European standards of accreditation and recognition. The results include up to date mapping of European training in health communication, definition of necessary skills and competencies and an innovative training tool to deliver these skills and competencies to medical doctors through face to face and an e-learning platform; H-COM aims at increasing knowledge, building capacity and raising awareness among medical doctors on health communication issues. Long term H-COM aims to improve patient-doctor relationship and ultimately patient health outcomes.

Cancer is one the leading causes of death in Europe in the general population with reports noting the cancer-related mortality twice as high in the homeless population. Reasons for this excess are linked to risky health behaviours as well as significant barriers experienced by homeless people when trying to access the often highly fragmented health care systems. Timely and evidence-based preventive strategies including optimizing health care pathways provide a solution to the high cancer mortality and could improve overall health outcomes in this underserved population. The aim of the CANCERLESS project is to deliver an innovative solution as an aggregate intervention based on the combination of the tested Patient Navigator Model and Patient Empowerment Model to create the Health Navigator Model for Europe. The Health Navigator Model is an evidence-based patient-centred intervention which develops patient empowerment through health education and social support and promotes timely access to primary and secondary prevention services. CANCERLESS includes partner organizations with long-standing experience in working in the field of health and social care for the homeless in the south, east, northwest and central Europe, as well as academic institutions and local governments. Using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation as well as the Research and the Reach, Effectiveness, Adoption, Implementation and Maintenance frameworks based on implementation science know-how, the CANCERLESS project aims to reduce the gap in health inequalities for the homeless population by reducing cancer burden, which will, in turn, reduce associated costs across health and social care systems in Europe. Moreover, the CANCERLESS project aims to harness the transformative potential of the integrated care pathways in cancer as well as provide health and social care policy recommendations for the adoption and implementation of the Health Navigator Model across Europe.

The overarching aim of INHERIT is to define effective inter-sectoral policies and interventions that promote health and well being across the social gradient by tackling key environmental stressors and related inequalities in the areas of living, consuming and moving. INHERIT will bring together relevant stakeholders from different sectors, including the private sector. It will support inter-sectoral cooperation between environment, climate and health by: a) Analysing existing scientific knowledge on key environmental stressors to health and approaches to address these; b) Identifying existing promising inter-sector policies and interventions that enable conditions for more healthy and environmentally sustainable behaviours, in three main areas: living, consuming and moving; c) Developing a Common Analytical Framework using impact assessment tools and quantitative and qualitative indicators to assess the social, environmental and health benefits and the economic value in promising inter-sectoral interventions; d) Developing targets and future visions while considering overall economic and politics contexts and global trends (i.e. participatory back-casting, stakeholder and citizen consultations and household surveys); e) Implementing, testing and evaluating pilot interventions in different European contexts; f) Enhancing the leadership skills of public health professionals in inter-sectoral work to address key environmental stressors to health and promote healthy and environmentally sustainable lifestyles; g) Translating evaluation findings into models of good practice for effective inter-sectoral work and evidence based tools for policy development to contribute to the global and European environment, health and sustainable development policy agenda. The novelty of INHERIT lies in its support for health, environment and climate sectors to jointly pursue the inter-related goals of improving health and well-being of the population while preserving the environment.