BeWell
Project description
The BeWell project has formed an alliance, called a Partnership. The partnership is building a movement of all healthcare stakeholders that support, and are committed to, the development, implementation, and upscaling of the future health workforce strategy on the upskilling and reskilling of the European health workforce.
BeWell’s ultimate goal is to develop a green and digital skills strategy for the health ecosystem. The strategy will be implemented at various levels – such as local, regional, national, and European levels – through the European Pact for Skills.
BeWell will address existing skill mismatches and strengthen workforce competencies. It will enable Europe’s health workforce to be better prepared to face future challenges and adapt to evolving societal contexts. The project lasts for 48 months from 1 July 2022 onwards.
Actors: Europe’s overall pact for skills is the first to be set up under Europe’s skills agenda that started in 2020. Launched in 2020, the pact for skills encourages people and organisations to contribute through their key roles in upskilling/reskilling the European health workforce. Among organisations and people that can get involved are companies; workers; national, regional and local authorities; social partners; cross-industry and sectoral organisations; education and training providers; chambers of commerce; and employment services. Today, this is wrapped up in the European Union (EU) of Skills which invests in people for a competitive EU.
Co-creation of training: BeWell is building comprehensive curricula and training programmes that will target all types of professionals in the health workforce (including health students, health professionals e.g., nurses, doctors, operators, and managers, and professionals in emerging occupations). The training programmes are being co-created by universities, vocational educational and training (VET) providers, and companies. They will reach target populations through both initial education and continuing professional development.
Underpinning principles: BeWell is being developed based on 10 principles that support respect for and unification of the diversity of Europe's health ecosystem. Among the principles: digital skills for skills-mix innovations in care integration; patient-centredness; collaboration and co-creation; inclusiveness and diversity.
Consortium: The project consortium has 24 beneficiaries and 5 associated partners from 11 countries. The partnership brings together a substantial and diverse pool of leaders who represent stakeholders in the health sector at regional, national, and European levels. A wide range of educational institutions; professional associations; and trade-related bodies are involved.
EHTEL’s role
BeWell’s early initiatives were around mapping and anticipation of the digital (and “green”) future skills sets needed by the health systems/services workforce(s).
EHTEL welcomed its members’ ideas on the best practices they could offer to BeWell. They filled in the Skills Monitor. Currently almost 90 digital skills training courses are promoted.
EHTEL's contributions have been adding value to:
- Skills intelligence:
- Identifying what are the priorities among the training skills needed in members of the health workforce.
- Validating skills strategies.
- Evidence awareness:
- Adding info on:
- Workforce skills needs.
- Training methodologies.
- Drawing on EHTEL members’ knowledge about the digital transformation in health and care; use of digital tools and methods.
- Communication:
- Facilitating communication among consortium partners including EHTEL’s own community, other projects and pilots, the BeWell Partnership.
Learn more about the project on the official website.
What’s in it for you in 2025
Already at the end of 2024, EHTEL organised a dedicated in-person workshop on building digital skills for scale, complete with a report, PowerPoints, and short videos. Look at it now.
On 24 April 2025 EHTEL held a webinar on digitally-confident workforces. You can now access its videos and presentations.
EHTEL continues to encourage your contributions to BeWell’s:
- Policy briefon digital skills. Look out for details on a 6 May 2025 event.
- Skills monitor of digital skills courses/programmes for health and care workforces. Feel free to add more in your region or country through the available form.
- A future skills strategy. Offer your views to BeWell’s Open Public Consultation on what should come next.
- Testing and piloting of an entirely new set of digital skills courses and programmes available in a range of European languages. Visit the BeWell Pilot Training Platform .
- Partnership, which will hold a November 2025 get-together.
Let BeWell know whenever you spot meaningful and useful links with other projects, pilots, and partnerships.
