International conference 2024

The official program will be published on 1 of July 2024

Social event and networking

Please join us for a Networking event with light snacks and drinks.

The Networking event will take place in Fotografiska.

Address: Telliskivi 60a-8

               10412 Tallinn

                Estonia

Don't miss this opportunity to expand your connections at Fotografiska on Wednesday, November 6th at 19:00. 

Participation fee: 80 €

Registration starts May 15, 2024

All abstracts and presentations should be in English. The submitted abstracts (oral presentation, poster) will be reviewed and scored by an international committee. Authors will be notified of the acceptance or rejection of their submission by June 20, 2024.

The conference focuses on health and wellbeing and its relation to:

- Digital Health

- Ethical Issues in Healthcare

- Interdisciplinarity in Healthcare

- Occupational Healthcare and Wellbeing

- Patient-centered Care

- Promotion of Health and Wellbeing

- Quality of Care

Abstract submissions should include the following information:   
• Paper title 
• Names and surnames for each author must be provided. Do not include degrees or titles.  
• Affiliations: Each author should be listed by institution, city, and country. 
• Paper abstract (max 250 words). 
• The format of the abstract: Background, Objective, Methods, Results and Conclusions. 
• File Format: PDF 
 

The conference abstract book will be published in the Proceedings, indexed with an ISBN and ISSN codes.  
Please submit your abstracts HERE by May 15, 2024 
We would like to invite you to submit your research work (presented as Oral presentation at this conference) for the publication in our upcoming issue in cooperation with the Estonian Academy of Sciences. 

Original Research Articles and Literature reviews should present original findings, which will be considered for publication in international scientific open access journal the Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences. The special issue will be published in autumn 2025.  

The length of the text should be limited to 5000 words (excluding the title page, summary, references and appendices), 9-12 pages. Only full papers, written in correct English are accepted.  

Studies that have already been published or are currently under consideration for publication elsewhere are not accepted. Papers that do not comply with the requirements will not be published. 
One author can contribute to maximum three articles. The guide for authors can be found HERE.  

Please submit your article HERE by October 15, 2024

The conference will take place in Swissôtel Tallinn 

Address: Tornimae street 3

               10145 Tallinn

                Estonia

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If you are interested in becoming an exhibitor at our conference, please contact the conference organizers at jekaterina.steinmiller@ttk.ee 

Guidelines for the Registration: 

Register to the conference through the dedicated online ‘Registration’ page by following the easy registration process. Fill in the required information to complete the registration and proceed to payment.  

When paying by bank transfer, at the end of the registration process an official document called "PRO FORMA document" will be emailed to you with the amount to be transferred and our bank data so please proceed to the END of the online process. The corresponding final invoice will be emailed back to you once payment has been done and our bank account credited. Please note, that invoices are automatically issued upon payment reception with the information you have provided online.     
    
Upon payment reception, the invoice will be automatically generated and sent to the email you provided online when registering. Please verify your spam/junk inbox before contacting us. 

Please pay attention and fill in the correct data; this data will be used for the invoice and cannot be amended afterwards. 

Registration Date: 25^th October 2024 

Participation Fee: 250 €

Register HERE: 

Language    
The official language of the conference is English. 

Certificate of attendance    
Certificates of attendance will be sent by email after the conference. 

Cancellation policy: 

• Cancellation requests received 2 months before the congress: 70% of the registration fees will be refunded. 
• Cancellation requests received less than 2 months before the congress: there will be no refund. 

Cancellation must be made in writing and will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis.  

Please email your request to: jekaterina.steinmiller@ttk.ee 

Luca Bertocchi

Luca Bertocchi is an onco-hematology nurse at the Maggiore Hospital of Trieste (Italy). He worked for two years at St George’s University Hospital in London (UK) and completed a six-month mobility program at Boston College in the Connell School of Nursing (United States) under the mentorship of Professor Dorothy Jones, former president of NANDA-International and current Director of the Gordon program. He is working on research topics regarding Standardized Nursing Terminologies, Nursing Information Systems, Simulation, and Nutrition.

 

Luca Bertocchi

RN, MSN, PhD

Contact:

+39 346 2370 465

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8263-8419

 

 

Mgr. Ing. Alena Lochmannová 

  
 

Mgr. Ing. Alena Lochmannová, Ph.D. et Ph.D., MBA is an ethnologist working on medical anthropology, especially on perinatal health, patients' emic perspectives, culturally sensitive care, body modifications and rituals related to psychosocial health, and an industrial engineer working on the education of non-medical health professionals using virtual reality, as well as the use of virtual reality in rehabilitation. She works at the Faculty of Health Care Studies of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic and at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic. There she works as an assistant professor, researcher and at the Faculty of Health Care Studies as a vice-dean for internal and external relations. She has extensive experience in research projects within international multidisciplinary teams. 

Title of the presentation: Health professions education virtual and real: from tradition to the challenges of today 

 

Kay Sundberg

 

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Kay Sundberg, RN, PhD and Associated Professor in Nursing working at Karolinska Institutet (KI) Stockholm, Sweden. She is also the director of the research school of health science at KI. Her nursing background is in oncology nursing, and she is currently a senior lecturer in the nursing programs at KI. Her early research was about quality of life and sense of coherence (SOC) among survivors of childhood cancer and the current research is about patient reported outcomes (PRO) and support through digital technology during and after treatment of cancer. In all her research the concept of SOC forms a base for a person-centered approach.   
 

Titel of the presentation: “Sense of coherence as an underpinning concept in nursing education and research”

  

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Dear Participant,

Please find below our instructions for preparing electronic posters and oral presentations and conform with these.

Presenting your scientific poster at a conference

A scientific poster or visual presentation that summarizes your research findings will be displayed at conference. Authors are invited to present the results of their research in 3 minutes (at the poster session). A ´Best Poster Award' is planned for the poster!

Electronic poster

• Size A0 (1189 mm x 841 mm)
• Aspect ratio 16:9
• Layout: portrait
• File Format: PDF
• Posters will be ready for your session time on the screens (given you prior to the conference when the final program is confirmed)

Submit your electronic poster HERE

Oral presentation

• The number of slides is not limited, but in preparing your presentation, please consider your presentation time is 15 minutes.
• Your presentation should involve the following slides/information about the research at minimum: 
  - Background 
  - Methodology 
  - Findings 
  - Discussion 
  - Conclusions
• File format: PowerPoint or PDF. Please use this template for all your PowerPoint presentation.

By following our guidance you enable us to be ready for the sessions in time and without problems and to provide you with great conference experience. Thank you in advance for your cooperation!

Members of the Scientific Committee of the Conference: 

Assoc. Prof. Željko Jovanović, MD, PhD University of Rijeka, Croatia

Assoc. Prof. Mechili Enkeleint-Aggelos, PhD University of Vlora, Albania

Ülle Ernits, RN, PhD Tallinn Health Care College

Prof. Natalja Istomina, RN, PhD Vilnius University 

Assoc. Prof. Kristi Rannus, RN, PhD Tallinn Health Care College 

Jekaterina Šteinmiller, RN, PhD Tallinn Health Care College 

Assoc. Prof. Merle Talvik, PhD Tallinn Health Care College 

Merle Ojasoo, PhD Tallinn Health Care College 

Martin Argus, PhD Tallinn Health Care College 

Jaana Sepp, PhD Tallinn Health Care College 

Saima Hinno, PhD Viljandi Hospital, Estonia 

Marianne Paimre, PhD Tallinn Health Care College 

Siiri Maasen, RN, MSc Tallinn Health Care College 

Maarja Randväli, RN, MSc, APN Tallinn Health Care College 

Kadri Kööp, RN, MSc Tallinn Health Care College 

Irma Nool, RN, MSc Tallinn Health Care College

Tiina Freimann, PhD Estonia

Meeri Koivula, PhD Tampere University, Finland

Mirza Oruč, PhD University of Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Martin Dichter, PhD Köln University, Germany

Prof. Tove Aminda Hanssen, RN, PhD The Artic University of Norway, Norway

Ann-Helén Sandvik, PhD University of Borås, Sweden

Outi Kähkonen, PhD University of Eastern Finland, Finland

Anna-Liisa Aho, PhD Tampere University, Finland

Ari Haaranen, PhD University of Eastern Finland, Finland

Local Organizing Committee: 

Maarja Randväli 

Kateriina Rannula 

Riin Rosenperk 

Tanel Murre 

Martin Argus 

Jaana Sepp 

Grete Sõõru 

Kadri Kööp 

Aivar Ilves 

Eva-Liisa Eirand 

Marianne Paimre

Karlote Kiissa 

Jekaterina Šteinmiller