CODE-YAA@PC-EDU is delighted to congratulate Dr Vilma Tripodoro on receiving the Best Oral Presentation Award at the Best Care for the Dying Person Summer School, held in Málaga, Spain.
The Summer School brought together an international community of professionals, researchers, educators, and members of the International Collaborative for Best Care for the Dying Person to exchange knowledge, strengthen collaboration, and explore innovative approaches to improving care for people at the end of life.
Dr Tripodoro received the award for her oral presentation titled “Learning Leadership and Ethics in Palliative Care Education: Insights from the CODE-YAA@PC-EDU Training School (Pamplona, 2025)”, prepared together with Simone Veronese and Carlos Centeno from the ATLANTES Global Observatory of Palliative Care, University of Navarra.
The presentation shared key insights from the CODE-YAA@PC-EDU Training School held in Pamplona in June 2025. The training school focused on leadership development and ethical reflection as essential components of palliative care education, particularly in culturally diverse healthcare and educational settings. Bringing together young researchers, clinicians, and faculty members from several countries, the programme created a learner-centred environment designed to promote reflection, dialogue, mentorship, and international collaboration.
A central message of the presentation was that effective palliative care education requires more than the transfer of knowledge. It also requires the development of reflective leaders who can navigate ethical complexity, build psychologically safe learning environments, and support meaningful institutional and cultural change. The presentation highlighted how experiential and dialogical learning, combined with leadership and ethics-oriented workshops, helped participants reconceptualise leadership as a relational, context-sensitive, and transformative process.
The award is an important recognition of the quality and relevance of the work carried out within CODE-YAA@PC-EDU. It also reflects the Action’s broader mission to promote access to high-quality palliative care education and training across the WHO European Region and beyond.
We warmly congratulate Dr Vilma Tripodoro, Simone Veronese, and Carlos Centeno for this achievement and thank all colleagues involved in the CODE-YAA@PC-EDU Training School for their contribution to advancing palliative care education, ethical practice, and international collaboration.
