Business Research Unit researcher 𝐒í𝐥𝐯𝐢𝐚 𝐒𝐢𝐥𝐯𝐚 is coordinating the Erasmus+ project “𝗗𝗲𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗦 – Developing Competences for Stress Resilience @𝗦𝗠𝗘𝘀”, leading a European consortium of 7 partners from 6 countries: Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Poland and Spain. DeSTRESS is one of the few selected projects from the Portuguese Erasmus+ Agency in the call Key Action 2 – Strategic Partnerships for Vocational Education and Training (VET). Henrique Duarte and Ana Patricia Duarte from BRU-Iscte are also part of the coordinating team.
The project aims to aims to provide an innovative VET-based solution to prevent and manage work-related psychosocial risks and musculoskeletal disorders. Building on existing research, partners will identify a required set of competences leading to the development of a VET curriculum and a new VET Digital Digital Training Platform using the latest techniques in game-based training and gamification complemented by a set of practical tools and resources to facilitate the transfer of learning into the workplace.
