The College of Nursing in Celje was successful in applying to the public tender "Public tender for co-financing the integration of visiting higher education teachers in the teaching process in the years 2011-2013", which will be implemented within the framework of the Operational Programme for Human Resources Development for the period 2007-2013, Development Priorities 3. "Human Resources Development and Lifelong Learning, Priorities 3.3 "Quality, Competitiveness and Responsiveness of Higher Education" (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, no. 45/2011, June 10th, 2011).

The purpose of this public tender is to encourage the mobility of higher education teachers and other professionals who will at a higher education institution contribute to the exchange of expertise and experience in the frame of the study programmes, who will contribute to the development of educational activities and to the strengthening of international cooperation.

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The College of Nursing in Celje has in the context of the public tender in the academic year 2012/2013 hosted the following higher education teachers:

From Portugal-Cooperativa de La Superior Politecnico Universitario (CESPU):

• Professor Raquel Soares Pacheco Esteves, PhD, - the field of Palliative Care,

• Francisco Pinto Meireles Carneiro, M.A. - the field of Ethics in the UN

•Nuno Miguel Faria Araújo,M.A. - the field of Management, Safety and Quality in the UN.

From Serbia - High Medical School of Professional Studies in Cuprija

• Professor Jasna Veljkovič, PhD, - the field of Mental Health and Psychology.

The project was implemented during the period from October 15th, 2012, until May 30th, 2013.

The College of Nursing in Celje was with the project "Mentors as Promoters of the Development of Professional Competences" successful in the tender entitled "Public Tender: The Implementation of the Bologna Process - Co-Financing the Participation of External Experts in the Educational Process in the Years 2011, 2012 and 2013," which will be implemented within the framework of the Operational Programme for Human Resources Development for the period 2007-2013, Development Priorities 3."Human Resources Development and Life-Long Learning, Priorities 3.3 "Quality, Competitiveness and Responsiveness of Higher Education".

The purpose of this tender is to encourage the flow of of experts between higher education institutions, research organisations, economic companies and other institutions, between the study areas, disciplines and countries, and involvement  of those in the development of the study activities and related research activities.

The project was implemented during the period from August 1st until December 31nd, 2012 and was successfully completed. The participants of the workshops-mentors to the students have gained  the knowledge required for the successful implementation of the clinical training of students.

Glimpses from the workshops

Active ageing is a topical subject, to which the whole of the year 2012 (The European Year of Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations) was dedicated. Also at the College of Nursing in Celje, we got activelly involved in the development, and in the context of the Erasmus project - Intensive Programme, reported a project entitled Prevention for Active Ageing, which was at the end of May 2012 confirmed at the The Centre of the Republic of Slovenia for Mobility and European Educational and Training Programmes. The accepted IP offers an international and interdisciplinary approach in a number of fields (including nursing, medicine, sociology, psychology, etc.) with the emphasis on prevention for active ageing.

In June 2013, we have at the College of Nursing in Celje successfully completed the first international summer school entitled "Prevention for Active Aging." The summer school was, in the form of the an Erasmus intensive programme, created in the partnership with four higher education institutions from the field of nursing care, that is The Faculty of Medicine at the University of Rijeka (Croatia),CESPU- Advanced Polytechnic and University Cooperative - Polytechnic Health Institute of the North, Porto (Portugal), Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa, Krosno (Poland), and the College of Nursing in Celje (Slovenia).

The two-week-long summer school was dedicated to the exploration of various activities, which are carried out in the individual partner countries for the promotion of active ageing, as well as to the presentation of best practice cases in the Slovenian area, and the formulation of proposals for further activities in this area. An important part of the summer school were also excursions (Anton Trstenjak institute of gerontology and intergenerational relations, learning about the voluntary work of the elderly in the Slovene Ethnographic Museum, a visit to the Nursing Home Nina Pokorn Grmovje, to the General Hospital in Celje) and getting to know Slovenia (Celje, Ljubljana, a tour of the Franja Hospital, etc.), as well as varied social and  sporting activities. The summer school was attended by 24 nursing care students from partner institutions, whereas their work  was supervised by more than 10 foreign and domestic lecturers and experts from the field.