Samen aan Z
Training tailored to the health and well-being sector
Working to increase retention of care professionals and strengthen their adaptive & innovative capacity. That, in a nutshell, is the goal of ‘Samen aan Z’. This new, cross-border Interreg project is a continuation of the earlier projects ‘Blijf aan Z’ and Care2Adapt.
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What is ‘Samen aan Z’?
‘Samen aan Z’ started on May 1, 2023, runs for 3 years and is a collaboration of 10 partners, including Thomas More. Specifically, this project offers several free training paths for health and well-bering settings.
- Care2Adapt: for employees who will play a bridging role between innovation and their workplace. This intensive multi-day training program coaches, supports and guides the participants and offers them tools, tips and frameworks around the introduction and implementation of innovation(s) in care organizations.
- Team Champions Welfare: for health care workers who want to bring change within their team from the bottom up and work on increasing resilience.
- Lead to engage and retain: for managers who want to develop themselves further to build healthy and happy teams.
- Resilient start: for starting nurses who are following a training program to increase their resilience.
In addition, in this project we are working on the development of an application to measure and analyze employability and outflow within healthcare organizations in a scientifically substantiated way.
The project thus focuses on the further development and fine-tuning of various training and collaboration models that were tested in previous (pilot) projects within Interreg Flanders-Netherlands (particularly ‘Blijf aan Z’ and Care2Adapt). In ‘Samen aan Z’, they are given their improved and definitive form.
Our partners
‘Samen aan Z’ is a joint project of the APB Gouverneur Kinsbergen Center (Province of Antwerp), University of Antwerp, Care and Innovation Center West-Brabant, Fontys Hogescholen, Thomas More Hogeschool, Karel de Grote Hogeschool, Stormin, tanteLouise and Zorggroep Orion.
Our researchers
From Thomas More, three centers of expertise are collaborating on this research: Care and Well-being, Design and Technology, Sustainable Business and Digital Innovation.
Wendy de Vaal
Wendy de Vaal is a researcher in the People and Well-being research group, research line Prevention and empowerment. Her focus is currently on “Samen aan Z,” an Interreg Flanders-Netherlands research project.
Wessel van de Veerdonk
Wessel van de Veerdonk (Msc) is research coordinator for Prevention and empowerment in the Human and Welfare Research Group. His research focus is currently on optimal preventive health care specifically for people with reduced access.
Nele De Witte
Nele De Witte (PhD) is a researcher in the People and Well-being research group, research line Psychology and technology. Her areas of expertise include wearables and XR. She is also the scientific coordinator of LiCalab.
Glen Debard
Researcher committed to introducing technology in (mental) health care for young and old.
Kaat Jansen
Kaat Jansen is an occupational and organisational psychologist, coach and lecturer. She also holds a degree in 'sports & exercise psychology'. From her expertise, she is involved in the research project Samen aan Z.
Patrick Pelgrims
His research interests are mainly focused on instrumentation for bio-medical devices and smart embedded systems.
Anne Smits
Anne Smits is a researcher at the Sustainable Business and Digital Innovation expertise centre. Her experience is situated in the field of digital product development, User Experience and user research and this in both a B2B and B2C context.
Ann De Mey
Ann De Mey (MScN) is a researcher in the People and Well-being Research Group, research line Prevention and empowerment. From her expertise in health care, she collaborates on the research project 'Samen aan Z'.