WP3: Building Essential Skills for Healthy Cities

WP3 focuses on helping university teachers prepare future health and social service professionals with the soft skills they need to work effectively with communities. These transversal skills like empathy, coaching, and active listening are foundational for preventing and managing chronic diseases and for creating healthier cities and regions. 

To achieve this, under the WP3 we work to: 

• develop a training methodology that higher education teachers can use to teach soft skills. 
• create a model online course that can be adapted and used with different groups of practitioners. 
• design a GenAI-based tool where learners can role-play conversations with patients or clients and get feedback on their communication and interaction skills. 

The goal is to combine innovative teaching with digital tools so that practitioners are not only technically trained but also ready to collaborate across disciplines and respond to real-world health challenges in their communities.