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Papers and Reports by OECD

The Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) has released lots of material on how to tackle COVID-19. On the OECD web site, various pandemic related articles, papers and reports are available. Besides topics such as business, labour market, healthcare, environment, international cooperations, social challenges, digitalization, fiscal & monetary policies, and more, one collection deals with "education and skills".
In addition to various articles and papers in this collection, the report "A Framework to guide an Education Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic of 2020" has been released, which aims at supporting education decision making to develop and implement effective education responses to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The report offers a framework to guide the development of context-specific education strategies. It includes a checklist of 25 points to support the development of an education strategy during the pandemic. This can be used by national, state or local education authorities or by leaders of education networks. The most critical needs that should be addressed are: ensuring academic learning for students, supporting students who lack skills for independent study, ensuring the wellbeing of students, providing professional support for teachers and ensuring wellbeing of teachers and medical attention to teachers.
You can read the report here.
from Kosovo

We are glad to announce that we have two new members in our network, both from Kosovo.

The Institute of Southeast Europe for Health and Social Policies is a scientific, independent and non-profit organization with the experience in supporting development and strengthening health and nursing sciences in the area of Southeast Europe by cooperating, coordinating and supporting its activities with other university institutions operating in this field. ISEEHSP was established in 2008 with the main objective, advocating the advancement of health and social policies in Kosovo.

Heimerer College is recognized as the leading institution in terms of its education of health professionals in Kosovo. Although a relatively new higher education institution in Kosovo, Heimerer has already made its mark through the success of its alumni, students, and faculty. Heimerer College offers a diverse number of courses within health sciences in 6 accredited academic programs, 5 undergraduate – Nursing(BSc ), Logopedics (BSc), Occupational therapy, Medical Lab Technician program, Health professional Pedagogy/ Vocational nursing program, 1 graduate – Health Institution and Services Management (MSc) - and the newest MsC in Psychology: " Assessment and Intervention Psychology Program".

More information in our Member's Area.

survey by WHO on knowledge and skills

To raise awareness about the protection of health workers and other workers during the COVID19 outbreak and to disseminate WHO and ILO recommendations, WHO has set up a survey for all occupational health and safety professionals to be at the forefront of COVID19 preparedness, response and recovery to ensure that workers in health care facilities, in essential public services and other workplaces, including in informal and gig economy and migrant workers remain healthy, safety and productive during this outbreak.
You are kindly asked to fill the survey and share it widely with your networks. This survey is anonymous, your responses will not be associated with your name or email address, and no identifiable information on any individuals will be shared or presented in the survey results.

Here is the link to the survey tool.

WHO offers lots on information on Corona Virus and risk communication, as well as recommendations for protection of health workers and employers and workers in non-health care workplaces.
Additional WHO and ILO resources for protection of health and safety of health workers and responders are "Occupational safety and health in public health emergencies: A manual for protecting health workers and responders" in English and Chinese, forthcoming French, Spanish and Arabic, "Work improvement in health services, a training tool and action manual" in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Arab and Chinese and "ILO, Guidelines on decent work in public emergency services"
Keeping Young People Safe

The World Health Organization (WHO), supported by the UN Office of Information and Communications Technology (UN-OICT), UNAIDS, the World Food Programme (WFP) and UNICEF, challenge you to use your bright minds and entrepreneurial skills to address one of the of urgent health challenges for the next decade: Keeping young people safe.
The range of possible health innovation solutions that may be submitted include: apps or games; wearables, digital technologies, tools or platforms, products; the creation or improvement of products, services, processes; new approaches to collaboration or communication, or new ways of engaging young people and/or other stakeholders; policy reform proposals - with a view to keeping young people safe across the world.
Health innovations are defined here as the creation or improvement of virtual, physical or digital products, services, processes, or systems to improve public health.
Individuals and groups of up to four (4) individuals are invited to respond to the challenge by submitting a proposed solution to the challenge. There are no age restrictions. Only one (1) submission is allowed per individual or group of individuals. Submissions must be made in your own personal capacity, and not as representative of an organization.
Submissions will be accepted globally, but priority will be given to submissions that demonstrate respect for gender diversity and involvement of young people exposed to, affected by or living with the issue/risk/disease/condition in the development of the respective solution.
All submissions will be featured on the challenge webpage on the Unite Ideas platform. The winners and their proposals will be mentioned on the WHO public website and invited to attend an award ceremony at WHO’s Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland in June 2020 (date and other details TBC). Flights and accommodation will be covered by WHO, in accordance with its rules and procedures, for up to three winners (one individual representative of each winning proposal).
Submit your solution by 15 April 2020. More details about the challenge can be found here.
New ILO Report

According to the new ILO report "Global Employment Trends for Youth 2020 - Technology and the future of jobs", the number of young people currently not in employment, education or training (NEET) is rising, and young women are more than twice as likely as their male counterparts to be affected.
Young people (those aged 15-24) who are employed also face a greater risk than older workers of losing their jobs because of automation, and those with vocational training are particularly vulnerable, the report shows.
“This reflects how the occupation-specific skills imparted by vocational training tend to become obsolete faster… than general education skills,” the report says. It calls for vocational training programmes to be revised and modernized so that they meet the changing demands of the digital economy.
There are currently around 1.3 billion young people globally, of whom 267 million are classified as NEET. Two-thirds, or 181 million, of NEETs are young women.
“Too many young people around the world are becoming detached from education and the labour market, which can damage their long-term prospects, as well as ultimately undermine the social and economic development of their countries,” said Sangheon Lee, Director of the Employment Policy Department of the ILO. “But the reasons why they become NEET vary enormously. The challenge will be to balance the flexible approach needed to reach these young people with the strong policies and actions necessary to make an impact. A ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach won’t work.”
The ILO report is available for download now.
Deadline for submissions

 UPDATE  In the scope of the XXII World Congress on Safety and Health in October in Toronto, Canada, the International Media Festival for Prevention will take place.
The IMFP is an integral part of the World Congress and highlights that successful prevention work can be advanced through outstanding creative multimedia initiatives. It provides a fascinating glimpse into the various ways different cultures approach occupational safety and health.
The IMFP profiles films and multimedia productions about safety and health at work from all over the world. It provides a unique opportunity for participants to present their products and ideas to a major group of influential safety and health professionals.
All films and multimedia productions, for example films, websites, apps, web-based training, social media and software, are accepted. Submissions can be made by national and international organizations, or institutions as well as by agencies, filmmakers or individuals. We accept all media on safety and health at work produced since January 2016.
So far over 200 productions from all over the world have been submitted to the International Media Festival for Prevention 2020!
The deadline for submissions has been extended to March 31, 2020.
An international jury will select the winners and all nominated and winning productions will be presented to World Congress delegates in the Festival Cinema during the Congress. Prizes will be awarded in the presence of a large audience during the Special Media Session on October 5, 2020.
More details on the IMFP Website.
first meeting in Düsseldorf

On January 31, 2020 a first meeting on the new project “SDG 8 – Promoting decent work and productive employment through Higher Education” took place in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Under the lead of Johannes Siegrist, Senior Professor at University Düsseldorf and Nuria Mancebo, Director of the Chair of Health and Safety of the University of Girona, Spain, Chair of the ENETOSH Task Force Higher Education, this project has been started to strengthen decent work and productive employment through improved and coordinated education and training programs on health and safety in Higher Education at national, European and international level. The project was initiated by Lennart Levi, Emeritus Professor of Psychosocial Medicine, Member of the Swedish Parliament 2006-2010; Eurostress HB, Sweden. The official kick-off event will be announced soon.
new report of the LEARN! project

On 24 January 2020, the second UNESCO International Day of Education, a new report was published that highlights 17 key principles for delivering effective road safety education in Europe.
This new report sets out recommendations in the form of Key Principles that should be implemented in all European countries, in order to ensure that everyone – and especially children and youngsters – receive high quality traffic safety and mobility education. The 17 Key Principles are accompanied by best practice examples that illustrate how these principles can be applied in practice.
The report is published as part of the LEARN! (Leveraging Education to Advance Road safety Now) project, by the European Transport Safety Council (ETSC), the Flemish Foundation for Traffic Knowledge (VSV) and Fundación MAPFRE, and aims to improve the quality of traffic safety and mobility education across Europe.
More information on the project and the report for download are available at www.trafficsafetyeducation.eu
Forestry and wood production sector - by ILO

Uruguay is one of the participating countries of the global Project “Building a Generation of Safe and Healthy Workers. Safe Youth @ work”, executed by the ILO and funded by the US Department of Labor. One of the components of the Project aims at strengthening the mainstreaming of occupational safety and health into vocational training.
The inclusion of OSH training into VT training programmes is commonplace. All the actors involved in training and work agree that it is in training processes where we should acquire knowledge, develop skills and internalize risk identification and prevention behaviours at work.
For participants in training processes, in particular young people, to effectively adopt safe and healthy work behaviours, they must understand and value their importance, associate them and apply them in the different processes and moments of their work practice, know their rights and duties in this field and, most of all, identify and act to prevent the specific risks to which they are exposed to by developing OSH skills.
The objective of this booklet is to offer some practical guidelines to teachers to make their work in the field of OSH easier.
The guidelines and suggestions that are here systematized aim at mainstreaming the prevention of risks at work, the protection and the promotion of health into the forestry and wood production sector, while also taking into account the particular features of the target audience: young people who are participating in educational processes.
These guidelines include: Identification of skills to be developed by participants, Methodological suggestions for mainstreaming, Analysis of work processes by identifying risks, common errors and systematizing good practices, Examples of learning activities linked to different risks and a repository of resources to support training processes.
The guide can be downloaded on the ILO website.
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