<< Background >>The proposed project is a strong response to the important and actual European demand, underlined in EU Strategy for COVID-19 vaccines ( 15 Oct. 2020) to prepare health professionals as trusted sources of information on vaccination matters and empower them to address vaccine hesitancy, tackle the misinformation and disinformation, ensure clear communication on the benefits, risks and importance of COVID-19 vaccines and build public confidence in vaccines.For years, resistance vaccine increased and WHO listed vaccine hesitancy as one of the top ten public health threats in 2019. Disinformation and misinformation overabundance of false information spread like wildfire in press, Internet and social media around COVID-19 raised concerns about vaccines and increased the vaccine hesitancy in population and even among healthcare workers themselves. This likely make the uptake of vaccines more difficult, which endangers the life and health of the population and affects the capacity of the countries to stop the pandemic crisis. The importance of the vaccination became a top priority of the European Commission and all EU countries as the only solution to stop the COVID-19 crisis. Good information and effective communication on vaccination matters and preparing health professionals as trusted sources of information are the objectives of the EU and national strategies for Covid vaccination. The project responds to the common training needs of partners' organizations and addresses to fill the gap in training curriculum of nurses and healthcare professionals.In Romania like in other partners' countries , the for nurses and healthcare curriculum include topics on delivering vaccination, knowledge and skills to ensure safe and efficient vaccine but, to prepare confident healthcare to inform , promote, communicate, advise and influence the public on vaccination and tackle with vaccine hesitancy, they need to be trained with specific knowledge, communication and social skills.More resistant to vaccination are people from disadvantaged backgrounds who generally do not have equal access to the health services, because lack of information or misinformation, cultural influence on health beliefs and behaviour.Out target groups are nurses and healthcare staff involved in delivering vaccination and but also school nurses and doctors, community nurses, health visitors, sanitary mediators and other healthcare professionals working with disadvantaged people and vulnerable groups or other hard to reach groups, who need to increase, update and upgrade their knowledge on vaccination and improve their communication and relationship skills and the capacity to tackle vaccine hesitancy.<< Objectives >>The project aims to support and train the healthcare professionals to promote vaccination and tackle with vaccine hesitancy, to enhance their knowledge on vaccine and vaccination and develop skills of communication, cultural and social relationship skills, empowering them fighting disinformation, tackling the vaccine hesitancy and improving vaccine confidence to people that are more hesitant or people from disadvantaged groups. Four partners, Edunet Organization from Romania, Cyprus University of Technology, National Kapodistrian University of Athens and University of Almeria will work together and put their expertise and experience to create the project results and accomplish the following objectives: 1: To increase the level of knowledge on vaccine and vaccination of the healthcare professionals and support them to promote vaccination and tackle with vaccine hesitancy by provision of reliable, trustful and up-to-date information sources on vaccine and vaccination, by creating information tools addressing people coming from disadvantaged groups and people that are more vaccine hesitant which help them to get better informed, overcome their fears and strengthening confidence in vaccines. 2: To strengthen the aspects related to vaccination and immunization in the training curricula and education of healthcare professionals, by creating an innovative Training Curriculum focused on promoting vaccination and tackling the vaccine hesitance.3: To gap in the knowledge, skills and competences of nurses and the healthcare professionals by creating and make available a set of Bite sized Learning Tools for their self learning, enabling them to improve and update their knowledge about vaccine and vaccination and skills needed to combat the vaccine hesitance. 4: To increase quality in continuing training of healthcare workers involved in vaccination but also the initial training program for the qualification of nurses and other healthcare professionals, by creating an innovative Training course on vaccination, based on digital learning and online methodology approach ( MOOC). 5: To increase European dimension and quality in education and training activity and prepare more professional learners, trainers and staff and more in line with the individual needs and the organizational objectives the partners and associated organizations and help them to prepare 120 students and healthcare professionals on vaccination, increasing their knowledge, communication and social skills and empowering them to promote vaccination and tackling the vaccine hesitancy,.<< Implementation >>The project will start with research on vaccination and immunization to detect the key issues and establish the topics for the Informative Guide and the partners will map on Internet for the informative resources and tools which can be used by healthcare staff for to improve update and upgrade their knowledge on vaccine and vaccination. Then, the partners will create the info sheets, translated in all partners’ languages and will organize informative campaigns among vulnerable groups and vaccine hesitant people. Building on the PPT/IENE Model developed in previous IENE projects, partners will establish the training Curriculum of healthcare professionals involved in vaccination and immunization aiming at enhancing their competence to tackle with vaccine hesitancy, communicate and social relationship skills to work with people coming from hard to reach groups. The partners will create Bite sized learning tools, organized in a attractive form with links to additional resources, You tube videos, animations and other information sources collected from the Internet in CC license which will be posted on the web platform in the form of easy to navigate course in all partners’ languages to be used by healthcare staff for self learning and improve their knowledge on vaccination. Under the coordination of Edunet, partners will create a methodology and content for a Training Course on vaccination and set up the Online Course (MOOC), aiming to train healthcare professionals to tackle with vaccine hesitancy.During an European joint training workshop, a number of 16 trainers from the partner organizations and associated partners will be trained to conduct learning activities on the MOOC.Partners will recruit and involve in the online course at least 120 participants, staff and learners from their organization and associated organization as well as other health care professionals involved in delivering , nurses school nurses , community nurses, health visitors, sanitary mediators and other healthcare professionals which are working with vulnerable groups. The course will be delivered, piloted and evaluated during six weeks. The participants will increase their knowledge about vaccination, cultural awareness and cultural knowledge about hesitant and vulnerable people , their thinking and cultural beliefs in front of vaccination and increase their skills to inform , advice about vaccination, promote and advocacy combat misunderstanding and myths of vaccination , influence, get trust, persuade and improve vaccine confidence to hard to reach groups To attract potential stakeholders to use our project results will be organized National Seminars in Romania, Greece, Cyprus and a European Conference in Spain, where are expected to participate at least 140 stakeholders.<< Results >>The main tangible products of the project are:7.A data base of reliable sources of informative and tools on different issues on vaccine and vaccination, available on trustful websites, in English and in partners' languages , aiming at updating and increasing the level of knowledge on vaccination both of public and healthcare professionals.8.An Informative kit with essential information on vaccination in English Romanian, Spanish, Greek aiming at correct and information to people that are more hesitant , people coming from disadvantaged groups and to be used by healthcare professionals promoting vaccination, fighting disinformation, tackling the vaccine hesitancy.9.An innovative Training Curriculum for enhancing knowledge, communication skills, cultural and social competences of nurses and healthcare professionals, available in English Romanian, Spanish, Greek, which may be used by potential trainers to develop their own initial and continue training.10.A set of. Bite sized Learning tools, available on the website which ca used by healthcare workers for self learning and in four PDF compendia in English Romanian, Spanish, Greek, which can be downloaded and used for offline learning.11.An online course Methodology for training healthcare workers on vaccination, piloted and validated with 120 healthcare professionals, and the tools which will be available in four languages English Romanian, Spanish, Greek on the project website and training providers to use the course model for their training : a) Training Methodology Guide with good practices of the course piloting b) Compendium of MOOC content c) Kit for training the MOOC facilitators.12.An integrative website platform that provides access to reliable information and to all project outputs and an environment for networking and sharing (Facebook and Twitter pages).The project results will be available as open educational resources and can be transferred and exploited in other European countries to prepare confident healthcare workers and also to prepare staff in other field of education and training or in youth . The project supports the citizens in strengthening confidence in vaccines and prepare a confident healthcare workforce that can advise the public on vaccination needs, tackle vaccine hesitancy and deliver immunisation