PROJECT

All health systems across the WHO European Region should prepare to respond to the age-related increase in deaths from chronic diseases, by focusing on integration and boosting of palliative care education. The CODE-YAA@PC-EDU COST Action will set quality indicators to establish a gold standard for high-quality education and training in palliative care. CODE-YAA@PC-EDU aims to measure, explore, and promote access to palliative care education and training in the WHO Euro-region, focusing mainly on primary health care, which is considered the most sustainable and cost-effective model for palliative care delivery. CODE-YAA@PC-EDU will develop and provide a new culturally and ethically appropriate inclusive evidence-based self-assessment tool, CODE-YAA, to inform leadership priorities and evidence-based decision-making related to palliative care education and training. CODE-YAA@PC-EDU is composed of three Pan-European; interdisciplinary; geographical, age and gender balanced; open and inclusive; and excellence-driven working groups: FIRE, TORCH, and THUNDER. CODE-YAA@PC-EDU will provide networking opportunities and activities for researchers and innovators to strengthen Europe’s capacity to the scientific, technological, and societal challenge of ensuring access to palliative care education and training. CODE-YAA@PC-EDU will capitalise on other EU-funded projects on ethics, research ethics, and palliative care. The CODE-YAA indicators will have a long-lasting impact in Europe and beyond. CODE-YAA@PC-EDU will coordinate joint efforts to seek ways to improve palliative care education and accelerate knowledge transfer into ethically sound practices that can be shared across Europe to reduce the societal and economic burden and harmful experiences caused by people experiencing unnecessary health-related suffering.