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Medical and health sciences
- Mental healthcare services
The EU-COMP DEVO Team project aims to address the above-mentioned gaps by developing a comprehensive framework for prevention, treatment and harm reduction education that will promote harmonious and high-quality training materials across Europe. This will build on what the EUDA has yet realized in this area, like the EUPC and Plato online learning platform. The project will map existing educational and training programs, identify gaps in the current system, and update/develop culturally adapted resources designed to meet the diverse needs of addiction professionals. By creating an inventory of internal (EUDA) and external educational materials and collaborating with relevant stakeholders, we will develop minimum standards and quality benchmarks for the resources used in addiction training. These efforts will contribute to the harmonization of the educational landscape for addiction professionals, ensuring that the materials used across various regions and disciplines foster a consistent level of expertise and effective competency-building. This initiative could pave the way for developing a common theoretical and practical curriculum on addiction prevention, harm reduction, and treatment across the EU, which could both integrate the most thorough body of evidence of the scientific literature, but also the specificities of each country or region of Europe, as well as the experiential knowledge of people who use drugs.