What and why this website?
ENGAGE is a participatory staff engagement model allowing to raise awareness of status, challenges and opportunities of environmental sustainability in health and care systems, find people's innovative ideas and solutions for green transition in the organisational contexts of health and care and contribute to mainstreaming the practical green transition related solutions. ENGAGE consists of the learning approach for staff engagement for green transition, a library of participatory methods and guidelines for applying them.
This website guides you in the use of participatory methods for staff engagement in the context of green transition in health and care services. This website maps the why, what, who and how aspects of participatory staff engagement. Apart from introductory parts and materials, you will find information on inspirational and preparatory materials on essential aspects such as:
- What is participatory staff engagement?
- How can it be facilitated and by whom?
- What kind of participatory methods are there and how can they be used?
- What kind of experiences have been gained and how can such new practices be sustainably embedded?
This website serves different kinds of users, particularly health and care professionals, managers and organisations. It can also be of use for decision-makers at different societal levels and educators, and anyone who wishes to find new perspectives to participatory methods, staff engagement, green transition or health and care services.
Please note that this website is still under construction at LUT University, Finland.
The website was developed in an international research project called CARING NATURE (Climate neutral initiatives for growing health and care unmet requirements) that aims to foster a cultural shift in the health and care sector: achieving sustainable, eco-friendly health and care systems which requires solutions that are effective, affordable and acceptable to all stakeholders. CARING NATURE aims to develop 10 innovative solutions, regarding building, waste, telemedicine, governance and staff engagement, to reduce the negative impacts of the health and care sector on the environment, without interfering with the safety of patients and operators. The project has 19 partners from 11 EU countries during 2024-2026.