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• SO1: To provide a diagnosis of the current situation of dental education in Europe.
• SO2: To enable a shared understanding and a common vision of Oral Health Professionals' Education priorities for the future among all European stakeholders and policymakers.
• SO3: To define priorities for a strategic vision and support changes for oral health professionals’ education in 2030.

Those strategic objectives will be attained through the production of 13 intellectual outputs (O1 to 13). A Strategic Scoping for Evaluation of Oral Health Professionals' Education will be produced (O1). It will be based on a peer-reviewed literature and policy documentation review. This will give a clear and concise direction for the project.

A synopsis of the current state of Oral Health professionals' Education in Europe will be derived from this literature review identifying the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats for dental education in the future (O2).

Then, in order to evaluate the current state of Oral Health professionals' Education in Europe, a research protocol will be written (O3). This will lead to survey implementation and initial analysis that will present the current state of Oral Health professionals' Education in Europe (O4).

The results will be submitted to an external consultation and this will allow to have a comprehensive report that will establish a final diagnosis on the current state of Oral Health professionals' Education in Europe. This report will be a consensus document for all stakeholders interested by Oral Health professionals' Education in Europe (O5).

Fact sheets will be accessible online providing relevant information to decision makers, core stakeholders, regulators, dentists, faculty, students, prospective students (O6). Another step will be to agree on a glossary of higher oral health professionals' education in Europe that will clearly define the terms used in the field of dental education (O7).

Then mapping of institutions providing oral health professionals' education will be structured (O8). A guide for the public about the current state of Oral Health professionals' Education in Europe will be published (O9) as well than an online CPD programs about the project method designated to stakeholders outside Europe will be conceptualized (O10).

A charter of educational priorities for the future of Oral Health professionals' Education in Europe that consider the way dental education could be renewed will be established. This consensus document will consider how to educate professionals able to effectively address public health challenges (O11).

An external analysis of a process for planning curriculum changes will be done. An experimental project currently growing within UCA will be used as a subject of analysis (O12).
This will allow the development of a toolkit for planning curriculum changes for oral health professionals' education in Europe, explaining the methodology for change (O13).

 

	Leading Organisation	Output Title	Starting Period
O1	THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD	Strategic Scoping for Evaluation of Oral Health Professionals' Education	01/10/2019
O2	THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD	Publication: synopsis of the current state of Oral Health professionnals' Education in Europe	01/10/2019
O3	UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA	Research protocol: evaluation of the current state of Oral Health professionnals'Education in Europe	01/11/2019
O4	UNIVERSITAT DE BARCELONA	Final survey implementation and initial analysis: evaluation of the current state of Oral Health professionnals' Education in Europe	01/10/2019
O5	RIGAS STRADINA UNIVERSITATE Riga	Comprehensive report, final diagnosis on the current state of Oral Health professionnals' Education in Europe	01/08/2021
O6	SEMMELWEIS EGYETEM Budapest	Fact sheets on the current state of oral health professionnals' education in Europe	01/08/2021
O7	MALMO UNIVERSITET	Glossary of Higher oral health professionnals'Education in Europe	01/02/2020
O8	MALMO UNIVERSITET	National and European mapping of institutions providing oral health professionnals' education	01/02/2020
O9	UNIVERSITE PARIS DESCARTES	Guide for the public about the current state of Oral Health professionnals'Education in Europe	01/01/2022
O10	UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI BRESCIA	Online CPD programs about the project method, for stakeholders outside	01/09/2021
O11	UNIVERSITE CLERMONT AUVERGNE	Charter and educational priorities for the future of Oral Health professionnals' Education in Europe	01/10/2021
O12	UNIVERSITE CLERMONT AUVERGNE	External analysis: case study of a process of planning curriculum changes for oral health professionnals' education	01/03/2021
O13	RIGAS STRADINA UNIVERSITATE Riga	Toolkit for planning curriculum changes for oral health professionnals' education	01/09/2019