The University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM), and the universities of Coimbra (Portugal) and Lovaina-Limburgo (Belgium) is implementing the Erasmus KA2+ project ‘Multicultural Care’. This has enabled it to create an original educational model which formally encompasses the required intercultural and professional skills for working with refugees and asylum seekers in the European Union in the health sector. Within this framework, the Toledo campus is hosting a training day in which teachers for the Degree in Nursing and Primary and Specialised Care Professionals will participate.
The Technological Campus at the Toledo Munitions Factory from the University of Castilla-La Mancha is hosting the training day ‘Cultural Competences for Nursing Care’. The aim of this initiative is to publicise the educational model for cultural competences in nursing care and training for these competences for professionals in the academic-teaching and care sectors.
The ‘Multicultural Care’ model is a common theoretical and training framework which provides intercultural training for Nursing students in Europe and which will result in improved professional health care. This original educational model which formally covers the necessary competences for working with refugees and asylum seekers in the European Union has been implemented within the framework of the Erasmus KA2+ project ‘Multicultural Care - Educating students through innovative learning methods to intervene in multicultural complex contexts’.
This is a transnational project which has been in force since December 2020 and will continue until April 2023. It was implemented by an interdisciplinary team from the University of Castilla-La Mancha, in coordination with the University of Coimbra (Portugal) and the University of Lovaina-Limburgo (Belgium). The Spanish section is headed by the Faculty of Physiotherapy and Nursing on the Toledo campus and is made up of the researchers Maria Idoia Ugarte Gurrutxaga, Gonzalo Melgar de Corral, Rocío Aranzazu Baquero Noriega, Brígida Molina Gallego and Laura Melgar Sánchez.
The day was inaugurated by the University of Castilla-La Mancha chancellor, Julián Garde; and participating in the ceremony was the Vice-chancellor for Internationalization, Raúl Martín Martín; the dean of the Toledo Faculty of Physiotherapy and Nursing, Asunción Ferri Morales; the director of the Department of Nursing, Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy, Ángel López González; and the main researcher from the Spanish team for the Erasmus KA2+ project ‘Multicultural Care’, María Idoia Ugarte Gurrutxaga.