InGriP’s goal was to integrate and optimise collaboration between the responsible institutions and rescue services in the cross-border public rescue service.
This included enabling rescue services to operate legally compliant cross-border emergency services at high levels of quality in the region that received funding – despite different prerequisites.
In an emergency medical simulation training programme, members of German and Polish rescue services trained together to prepare for the cross-border treatment of German and Polish patients that complied with the respective guidelines.
The sub-project “T7 Nachhaltigkeit” aims to continue InGriP’s activities beyond the end of project funding.
The work package “Nachhaltigkeit” (‘sustainability’) therefore assessed the requirements for ensuring that the activities described in the other work packages could be financed and implemented in the region in the long term and adopted in other regions with cross-border rescue services.
It was necessary to distinguish between two fundamental problems: on the one hand, increasing the probability of realising the project in line with the set goals during the funding period.
The second fundamental problem was the transition from innovation (study, prototype) to routine (standard operation, regular care) – a complex process that required the overcoming of numerous barriers.
It was therefore essential to recognise and overcome these barriers in order to continue and expand the proposed cross-border rescue service innovations in the other work packages beyond the end of the project, and to introduce them to other cross-border regions.
The project was initiated by the Department of Anaesthesiology (Anaesthesia, Intensive Care, Emergency Care and Pain Management) at University Medicine Greifswald and the District of Vorpommern-Greifswald.
The University of Greifswald’s Department of Slavonic Studies and the Chair of General Business Administration: Health Care Management took part in the project. Another partner was the non-profit rescue service Märkisch-Oderland.
The Voivodeship station of Szczecin’s rescue service has been a point of contact for several years. The DRF Luftrettung and the Polish air rescue station in Goleniow were also involved.
The project was co-financed by the European Union, with funds from the Regional Development Fund (ERDF) within the context of the cooperation programme Interreg V A Mecklenburg-Vorpommern/Brandenburg/Poland.
Contact at the University of Greifswald
Prof. Dr Steffen Fleßa
Chair of General Business Administration: Health Care Management
Friedrich-Loeffler-Straße 70
17489 Greifswald
Tel.: +49 3834 420 2476
Fax: +49 3834 420 2475
steffen.flessauni-greifswaldde