The added value of participants
The solution of social problems requires both a co-operation, a co-operation and a complex approach in micro- and macro-level, in cooperation with the professions of different sectors (health, sport and healthy lifestyle, employment, social profession, etc.). Implementing this project we are able to combine and unite our professional skills to cause a positive synergy-affect in our international and interprofessional cooperation.
The most important value of teamwork is that new perspectives are emerging in a supportive atmosphere and new results can be achieved through efficient team-team work and constructive co-operation and consensus-based action.
For the desirable collaboration we need to find out what can we / or should be done in organizing services or in a specific case, to plan together the joint work and decide on further steps to keep in touch with each other, to meet regularly, to re-evaluate the events, to analyze each other’s experiences, and to make new decisions together. So the longer-term, complex, continuous team-team work leads us to the actually desirable co-operation.
During the workshop, we summerized the Benefits and Difficulties of co-operation, as follows:
Benefits
• Effective staff work on a partnership basis
• Motivated contributors
• Viewable liability sharing
• Practical, effective, quality-seeking cooperation
• Possibility to develop well coordinated services
• International exchange of experience
• Benefits of interprofessional cooperation
• Innovative services that we are initiating, more satisfied users, social environment and employers
• We have a powerful impact on our narrower and wider social environment
• Continuous constructive co-operation taking into account wider dimensions
• Reduce problems, risks and threats
• Solving rigid professional frameworks
Difficulties
• Geographical distance
• Various regulations and service systems in the target countries
• Different professional qualifications and different identities
• Different professional values and interests
• Different qualifications and competences
• Different professional languages and styles
• The fear of losing loyalty to the original profession
• Risk of conflicting or parallel activities
• It is not always clear and definable perspectives
• Economical and successful use of available and new resources
• Time Difficulty
• Difficulties of assessment