With the main aim to raise IPCZD staff’s research profile and increase their research capacity in designing, conducting and evaluating paediatric trials, a series of activities were planned and implemented. Firstly, the SMART educational curriculum was presented to the potential candidates who have been evaluated and admitted to the programme. An ad hoc questionnaire was designed and administered to understand trainees’ expectations for the training programme as well as their professional profiles and competences. Moreover, topics and scientific contents on the basis of educational needs, were identified and discussed among the Partnership.
At the end of the project, all the foreseen training and educational activities, were designed and implemented. In particular, the e-learning course was completed in September 2016, two SMART schools were held, the 1st one in Bari (Italy) in September 2016 and the 2nd one in Jachranka (Poland) in March 2018. Two face-to-face meetings were organised in order to select the trainees, identify their training needs and to plan the future actions for publications purposes. Last but not least, the Final Open Workshop was organised and held in Warsaw (Poland) in November 2018. It was aimed at evaluating the staff gained competences and the general results. During this event, all the SMART trainees participating in the training programme, presented their training projects to a wide, public audience which included both scientific and general audience as well as all the interested stakeholders and the pharmaceutical companies.
Furthermore, a series of scientific publications were foreseen as a result of the staff exchanges and training projects produced in the framework of the SMART training programme. The publications are five and were published by the Polish Journal “Standardy Medyczne-Pediatria” (2018, vol. 15, supplement 1. ISSN:978-83-89809-40-7).
