Handbook for Moving towards Multiprofessional Work

This handbook was supposed to be a choral artwork and the result is a very choral and artistic patchwork. In the process of building up the project ‘MOMU – Moving towards Multiprofessional Work’, we sewed, we combined patterns to define new ones. We knew our shapes were different as were our fabrics but we learned to measure and cut in order to create a larger design. The results of this is what you can see in this handbook. We hope you’ll agree that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. It has not been easy to piece this together. These types of processes bring with them discussions, arguments, discoveries, hopes, despair and bureaucratic requirements; all inevitable parts of such a complex process. However, it is honest to say that the process has been exciting and paves the way for future and productive collaborations. Along the way some of the participants left us: Carola Boehm and Esther Mercado; some others joined us: Pedro de la Paz. Some changes took place in our universities, new roles were assumed. This is also part of the richness of the tapestry. We are very thankful to all of them for their contribution. We thank the European Union for funding this project. For all of us it was the first time we had developed an Erasmus+ KA2 project and we had to apply the ‘learning by doing formula’, but we managed. We are very thankful to teachers who volunteered to participate in the training sessions, to practitioners who gave us important input and feedback and showed us how to improve and make our teaching more practical. Thanks also to our national steering groups for their clarity and recommendations. Importantly, our gratitude extends to our students: social work and art students, who were open to new perspectives and ways of exploring their place in the world and the job market. Youth unemployment in Europe continues to be an issue, but projects like MOMU aim to address this challenge in creative ways. However, we are at the very starting point and further steps are needed to make the new competence framework we have created a reality. This handbook intends to suggest and inspire instead of guiding the reader. It offers training packages to be adapted depending on contexts, whilst highlighting our successes and failures. We suggest it is read, considered and adapted. In other words, each person willing to put it into practice will have to assume that they will have to make their own patchwork

Lymnaea schirazensis, an Overlooked Snail Distorting Fascioliasis Data: Genotype, Phenotype, Ecology, Worldwide Spread, Susceptibility, Applicability

BACKGROUND: Lymnaeid snails transmit medical and veterinary important trematodiases, mainly fascioliasis. Vector specificity of fasciolid parasites defines disease distribution and characteristics. Different lymnaeid species appear linked to different transmission and epidemiological patterns. Pronounced susceptibility differences to absolute resistance have been described among lymnaeid populations. When assessing disease characteristics in different endemic areas, unexpected results were obtained in studies on lymnaeid susceptibility to Fasciola. We undertook studies to understand this disease transmission heterogeneity. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: A ten-year study in Iran, Egypt, Spain, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru, demonstrated that such heterogeneity is not due to susceptibility differences, but to a hitherto overlooked cryptic species, Lymnaea schirazensis, confused with the main vector Galba truncatula and/or other Galba/Fossaria vectors. Nuclear rDNA and mtDNA sequences and phylogenetic reconstruction highlighted an old evolutionary divergence from other Galba/Fossaria species, and a low intraspecific variability suggesting a recent spread from one geographical source. Morphometry, anatomy and egg cluster analyses allowed for phenotypic differentiation. Selfing, egg laying, and habitat characteristics indicated a migration capacity by passive transport. Studies showed that it is not a vector species (n = 8572 field collected, 20 populations): snail finding and penetration by F. hepatica miracidium occur but never lead to cercarial production (n = 338 experimentally infected). CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE: This species has been distorting fasciolid specificity/susceptibility and fascioliasis geographical distribution data. Hence, a large body of literature on G. truncatula should be revised. Its existence has henceforth to be considered in research. Genetic data on livestock, archeology and history along the 10,000-year post-domestication period explain its wide spread from the Neolithic Fertile Crescent. It is an efficient biomarker for the follow-up of livestock movements, a crucial aspect in fascioliasis emergence. It offers an outstanding laboratory model for genetic studies on susceptibility/resistance in F. hepatica/lymnaeid interaction, a field of applied research with disease control perspectives

Irish-America, the end of the IRA's Armed Struggle and the Utility of 'Soft Power'.

This article examines the changing role of Irish-America in the Northern Ireland peace process and contends that it played a pivotal role in the Provisional IRA's announcement in July 2005 that it was ending its campaign of violence. It is argued here that the IRA decision to end its campaign was influenced considerably by three separate but interrelated factors: (1) the internationalization of Northern Ireland by successive US governments beyond the limits of domestic UK politics; (2) the evolution of the Irish-American political lobby in the 1990s, from outcome-driven objectives to process-driven and attainable goals; and (3) the current leadership of the Irish republican movement has orientated itself around the changing social fabric of Irish-America, which is smaller and less cohesive than in the past. More broadly, the article demonstrates the way in which the dynamics of internal conflict can be altered by external actors via the use of `soft power' strategies, in a manner that can assist the development of a peace process

MOMU - Moving towards multiprofessional work : moniammatillisen yhteistyön opas

Oletko kiinnostunut moniammatillisesta työskentelystä? Kiinnostaako yhteistyö taiteen ja kulttuurin sekä sosiaalialan tai nuorisotyön rajapinnoilla? Tarvitsetko työkaluja moniammatillisen koulutuksen tai työotteen kehittämiseen? Taiteen ja sosiaalialan välisen moniammatillisen yhteistyön opas on tarkoitettu työkaluksi tähän yhteistyöhön ja sen kouluttamiseen taide- ja sosiaalialoilla. Opas perustuu tarpeelle hankkia ja vahvistaa osaamista moniammatillisessa yhteistyössä, jonka osapuolet työskentelevät tasavertaisina toimintaa luovina kumppaneina yhteisen tavoitteen hyväksi. Opas tarjoaa lukijalle työkaluja moniammatilliseen koulutukseen, yhteistyön aloittamiseen ja moniammatillisten hankkeiden suunnitteluun ja toteuttamiseen. Opas sisältää kaksi moniammatillisen yhteistyön valmennuspakettia: ensimmäisen taiteen ja sosiaalialan ammattilaisille ja opettajille ja toisen opiskelijoille. Oppaasta saa välineitä tunnistaa omaa ja toisen osaamista sekä lisätä moniammatillista työskentelyä omaan työhön ja arkeen. Opas perustuu kansainvälisen MOMU, Moving Towards Multiprofessional Work -hankkeen aikana kehitettyyn ja pilotoituun korkeakouluopettajien, ammattilaisten ja opiskelijoiden oniammatilliseen valmennuspakettiin. Hanke kehitti sosiaali- ja taidealojen välistä moniammatillista korkeakouluopetusta yhteistyössä korkeakouluopettajien, opiskelijoiden ja työelämässä toimivien ammattilaisten kanssa Englannissa, Virossa, Suomessa ja Espanjassa. Toiminnassa tähdättiin taiteen ja sosiaalialan nykyisten ja tulevien ammattilaisten välisen yhteistyön ja uudenlaisen ymmärryksen lisäämiseen. Turun ammattikorkeakoulun lisäksi hankkeessa olivat mukana Tartu Ülikool Viljandi Kultuuriakadeemia (Viro), Universidad de Castilla La Mancha (Espanja) ja Manchester Metropolitan University (Iso-Britannia). Hankkeen rahoitti Euroopan Unionin Erasmus+ Strategiset kumppanuushankkeet -ohjelma ja rahoituksen myönsi Erasmus+ -ohjelman Suomen kansallinen toimisto