Summer School in Dublin

On 28^th, 29^th and 30^th April 2025, the PROMOCON partners participated in the three-days Summer School at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, dedicated to educators that teach ethics at the university and post-graduation level. 

During these days, educators coming from the partner countries learned about the objectives and the main ongoing activities of the PROMOCON project. In particular, prof. Alvisa Palese (University of Udine) presented an overview of the project; dr. Johanna Wiisak (University of Turku) the review concerning the interventions to promote moral competences in the nursing field; dr. Stefania Chiappinotto (University of Udine) the results of the systematic review regarding the instruments assessing moral and ethical competence; prof. Evridiki Papastavrou (Cyprus Nurses and Midwifes Association) the state of the art regarding the results of the comparative analysis of the nursing ethics courses curricula among the six countries partners and the Good Practice Guide; prof. Michael Igoumenidis and prof. Nikos Stefanopoulos (University of Patras) an overview of the Massive Open Online Course development and its contents; finally, the hosting professors of the Trinity College Dublin, Catherine McCabe and Brian Keogh, presented the results of the pilot of the course and the Train the Trainer Toolkit. Moreover, two key presentations were provided: prof. Chris Gastmans gave a presentation on the future of nursing ethics, while prof. Ann Gallagher suggested the optimal strategies to teach nursing ethics. 

During the first day, partners also had the opportunity to collect suggestions and comments from all the participants regarding the outcomes of the project and the Massive Open Online Course. They are now ready to finalize the outputs of the project.

The Summer School was also the occasion for all the members of the PROMOCON partnership to meet and discuss specific issues related to the project and its conclusion. A transnational project meeting was therefore organized on 30^th April 2025, in which the partners discussed forthcoming activities, the contents of future scientific publications and the last dissemination activities, which are the International Conference in Udine on 29^th-30^th May and the International Ethics Conference in Turku on 28^th-29^th August.