19/08/2026
🧠 DEDUC Project – Invitation to Healthcare Professionals
Together, we can shape the future of dementia education
As part of the European project DEDUC – Distance Education and Vocational Training on Dementia for University Students and Healthcare Professionals, we invite you to participate in an important European stakeholder consultation involving healthcare professionals and other stakeholders working in the fields of dementia, healthcare, care, education and training.
📌 Grant Agreement: 2024-1-PT01-KA220-VET-000246876
📌 Work Package: WP5 – Stakeholder Consultation
🎯 Why is your participation important?
The experience, expertise and perspectives of healthcare professionals are essential for designing and improving modern, accessible and effective educational approaches for dementia care.
Through this survey, we aim to better understand:
🧠 Training and professional development needs of healthcare professionals working with people living with dementia.
💻 Barriers and facilitators to the implementation of digital and hybrid education and training programmes.
🎓 The perceived value and practical applicability of DEDUC digital tools, including the learning platform, MOOC and simulation game.
🌍 Requirements for the adaptation and transfer of the DEDUC model to different cultural, educational, professional and institutional contexts.
🏛️ Key policy and educational priorities for strengthening dementia education and professional training across Europe.
🔄 The conditions required to ensure the sustainability and continuation of DEDUC beyond the Erasmus+ funding period.
⏱️ It takes only 5–7 minutes!
Completing the questionnaire is quick and your contribution can make a meaningful difference in developing more modern, practical and evidence-based educational approaches to dementia care.
🔗 Complete the survey here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSffX7u7hrLfRqhqOuADKQLoUGFAmicThgmzWNxkiLSEf_iiKw/viewform?usp=dialog
📢 Please feel free to share this survey with colleagues and other healthcare professionals who work in or have an interest in dementia, neuroscience, neurorehabilitation, mental health, healthy ageing, elderly care and public health.
Greater participation will allow us to collect more representative and meaningful data, strengthening the quality, relevance and applicability of the findings developed within WP5.
🔒 Confidentiality
Participation is anonymous, and all responses will be used exclusively for the activities of Work Package 5 of the DEDUC Project, within the framework of the European project and its objectives.
🙏 Every professional voice matters.
By participating, you are not simply completing a questionnaire. You are contributing to the co-design of the education and training that will support the professionals caring for people living with dementia in the future.
Your experience, knowledge and perspective can help us build better education, stronger professional capacity and more effective dementia care across Europe.
🇪🇺 DEDUC Project
Distance Education and Vocational Training on Dementia for University Students and Healthcare Professionals
Erasmus+ | European Cooperation | Dementia Education | Digital Learning | Healthcare Professional Training
BACKGROUND The DEDUC Project (2024–2026) is a European Erasmus+ KA220-VET initiative involving partners from Portugal, Spain, Greece and Slovenia. Its main goal is to modernise dementia-related vocational education and training (VET) by creating accessible, evidence-based and culturally adaptable ...