Audiovisual E-learning platform: MEDICAL TRANSPORT OF PATIENTS WITH TROPICAL DISEASES IN SAFE CONDITIONS
- Nov 6, 2025
- 6 min read
Start date 01-11-2018–End date 31-10-2020
EU Grant–255.075,12 €
Programme–Erasmus+
Key Action:
Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices
Action Type:
Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training
Countries covered–4
Coordinator
BERNHARD-NOCHT-INSTITUT FUER TROPENMEDIZIN
BERNHARD NOCHT STRASSE 74
20359 HAMBURG
🇩🇪 Germany
Coordinator Type: Foundation
Phone: 00494042818262
Summary
BACKGROUND:
The sanitary transport service is a dangerous task when professionals have to deal with patients suffering from contagious diseases. The outbreak of Ebola in 2014 and the H1N1 influenza virus demonstrated a lack of effective training in some cases in the EU. Nowadays there are several protocols to manage tropical diseases but health professionals are demanding specific guidelines and more practical training material. More specifically, sanitary professionals have detected some deficiencies in the current trainings:
• There is a large dispersion and lack of homogenous criteria for the training in sanitary professionals in cases of tropical diseases.
• There is a significant dispersion of guidelines to follow (WHO protocols, national protocols, guidelines army ....) and no harmonization.
• There are no specific training plans, and the only materials available are just some informal brochures
• Sanitary transport staff states that they have the action protocols, but no clear guidelines for action. There are no training available for protective equipment.
• The treatment of tropical diseases requires specialized training and preventive and stringent measures to prevent infection. It should include health professionals and corroborate the several protocols that have been launched in different regions to prevent future infections.
On other hand, the creation of the Schengen Area and the suppression of internal borders in the EU make necessary common policies and procedures to face any potential outbreak of the virus through transnational actions.
OBJECTIVES:
The TROPICSAFE project has developed an homogeneous training protocol at the European level focused on patient transport professionals with normalized guidelines for a proper and safely transfer of patients with tropical diseases.
This training has been published in an Open Online Learning Platform since it’s considered the best way for transmitting the disinfection guidelines and use of protective equipment. The training includes audiovisual support such as videos, images, and graphics in order to better demonstrate the safety procedures the professionals should follow. The e-learning platform is completed with questions & answers tests to evaluate the training process.
It has been translated to the languages of the consortium to get the support of the national health authorities and increase its impact. It has also been transferred to European institutions to set common criteria within the EU.
PARTNERSHIP:
The partnership was composed of entities combining expertise in different fields, such as medical transport, vocational training, work safety, and tropical diseases. They complement and each one provides different expertise. They were:
- ANEA (National Federation of Ambulances). Spain
- SGS TECNOS (A multinational company specialized in work safety). Spain
- MURRAY AMBULANCE SERVICE Ltd. (SME of medical transport) Ireland
- BIEDRIBA EUROFORTIS (NGO specialized in vocational training): Latvia
- Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine. (Research Institute) Germany
The fact that we had an international consortium has ensured a wider diffusion of the project, reaching the professionals of the health sector and public authorities at all levels.
IMPACT:
The main beneficiaries of this project have been sanitary transport workers, private companies, professional associations in the medical transport, trainers, Public and Private centers of training, and health professionals. The consortium included an associated hospital and partners were working closely with the Public Health Authorities. They have transferred the results to make them available for society, and thus achieving more homogeneous safety procedures throughout the EU member states.
The training program is hosted in an e-learning platform and has a Creative Commons license, so it is easier to disseminate the results, and anyone is able to benefit from them.
Partners
ANNINMUIZAS BULVARIS 38-37
1067 RIGA
🇱🇻 Latvia
Partner Type: Non-governmental organisation/association/social enterprise
Phone: +37127763451
PRECIADOS
28013 MADRID
🇪🇸 Spain
Partner Type: Social partner or other representative of working life (chambers of commerce, trade union, trade association)
Phone: +34915547190
Coarsepark Castlebar
123 Galway
🇮🇪 Ireland
Partner Type: Small and medium sized enterprise
Phone: 00353949250999
CALLE RONDA NARCISO MONTURIOL, N. 5 PARQUE TECNOLOGICO - PATERNA
46980 VALENCIA
🇪🇸 Spain
Partner Type: Large enterprise
Phone: +34961868900
Results
Practical & reusable resources for the practitioners:
IO2 Audiovisual E-learning platform : MEDICAL TRANSPORT OF PATIENTS OF TROPICAL DISEASES IN SAFE CONDITIONS
Description
Welcome to the training platform on a proper and safely transfer of patients with infectious diseases. During the Ebola outbreak 2014 and the current COVID-19 pandemic it became evident that there is a general need for training on the use of personal protective equipment for health care personnel. Further, we saw that protective material needs to be employed in the most effective but also economic way to prevent shortages. However, the group of infectious diseases is large and thus necessary PPE for protections varies a lot between different diseases.
This online platform offers a freely available training course on the use of PPE when transferring patients suffering from infectious diseases.
This course is available in four different languages including Latvian, Spanish, German and English. The target group for this course is personnel working in the sector of patient transport, but also nursing staff and other health care professionals. https://tropicsafetraining.com/
Type
E-learning module, online-training, MOOC
Contents
IO1 Audiovisual E-learning platform: MEDICAL TRANSPORT OF PATIENTS WITH TROPICAL DISEASES IN SAFE CONDITIONS - Standard Operating Procedures
Description
During the TROPICSAFE Project a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) was developed for the proper and safe transport of patients with tropical and infectious diseases. The SOP comprises the gathered and harmonized recommendations for the use of personal protective equipment, preparation and disinfection of ambulance vehicles as well as waste managment. Additionally it includes the background on infectious diseases and their transmission. This SOP is available in four languages including english, spanish, latvian and german. These files are barrier free available at:
Also all training videos in the four different languages can be accessed barrier free on:
Type
Other: Standard operating procedure and trainingvideos
Contents
IO2 Audiovisual E-learning platform : MEDICAL TRANSPORT OF PATIENTS OF TROPICAL DISEASES IN SAFE CONDITIONS - QR code
Description
This QR-Code leads to the Tropicsafe homepage, where the E-learning platform in the four different languages, english, spanish, latvian and german can be accessed:
Type
Other: QR-Code
Contents
IO2 Audiovisual E-learning platform : MEDICAL TRANSPORT OF PATIENTS OF TROPICAL DISEASES IN SAFE CONDITIONS - E-learning Platform content
Description
The training videos can be downloaded as mp4 and the content of the E-learning platform can be downloaded as a pdf on:
To access this content in all four languages, no registration is necessary.
the link to all english content is:
the link to all spanish content is:
the link to all latvian content is:
the link to all german content is:
Type
Other: E-learning content and Videos
Dissemination material:
Audiovisual E-learning platform: MEDICAL TRANSPORT OF PATIENTS WITH TROPICAL DISEASES IN SAFE CONDITIONS TROPICSAFE - Long brochure
Description
The Brochure is a short document informing beneficiaries and target groups on the Tropicsafe project. The Brochure includes a general overview on the project and is used as dissemination material.
Type
Leaflets
Contents
Audiovisual E-learning platform: MEDICAL TRANSPORT OF PATIENTS WITH TROPICAL DISEASES IN SAFE CONDITIONS TROPICSAFE - Project presentation
Description
A short presentation on the TROPICSAFE project that is used for dissemination and describes the project, the background, aims and partners.
Type
Description of the project (PPT, pdf, Prezi...)
Contents
Audiovisual E-learning platform: MEDICAL TRANSPORT OF PATIENTS WITH TROPICAL DISEASES IN SAFE CONDITIONS TROPICSAFE - Brochure2
Description
A colourful brochure on the Tropicsafe Project giving a short overview on the project.
Type
Leaflets
Contents
Ausdiovisual E-learning platform: MEDICAL TRANSPORT OF PATIENTS WITH TROPICAL DISEASES IN SAFE CONDITIONS TROPICSAFE - Newsletter
Description
During the TROPICSAFE project 4 newsletters have been published. The newsletters have been published every 6 months in all four partner's languages. The newsletter informed stakeholders and target group about the project status and was shared with the end-user list. The Attahced file combines all 16 newsletters.
Type
Press articles
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