PhD Helena Blažun Vošner
no.: 25634

Assoc Prof Dr Dr Helena Blažun Vošner obtained her first PhD at the University of Maribor from the field of Management and organization of online services and applications for elderly people. In August 2013 she finished PhD at the University of Eastern Finland from Health care sciences, her main PhD topic is also connected to the use of information communication technology by elderly people for their better quality of life. In the scope of the project Distant e-learning for nursing education DENED she was awarded with the grant from the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. As a fellow at the Johns Hopkins University Technology Fellowship Program, funded by the Center for Educational Resources at Homewood, Helena Blažun Vošner was creating “The Virtual Teaching Assistant” under the guidance of faculty members Prof Dr Patricia A. Abbott and Krysia Hudson. For many years Assoc Prof Helena Blažun Vošner was a Head of the Center for International Cooperation at the Faculty of Health Science University of Maribor, and also act as Erasmus Coordinator for student, staff and professors mobility exchanges. She published many scientific and professional articles, the most important was published in highly respected journals with high citation index, for example Computers in Human Behavior, Nursing Ethics, Nurse education today etc. Mostly the articles are from the field of the project interest; however Assoc Prof Dr Blažun Vošner also compled two PhDs from the field of the project. She acted as a researcher and manager in many international, national, and bilateral projects such as: • Erasmus transversal project “Promoting the improvement of elderly ICT skills and well-being by inter-generational and multi-sectoral education- PRIMER – ICT” - coordinator, researcher and manager of the project (2009-2010); 646.594,00 EUR; • Erasmus multilateral project “Joint development of online gerontological master degree programme – GEROM” - coordinator, researcher and manager of the project (2007-2010); 364.591,00 EUR; • European Commission; Public Health Project “Evidence Based Guidelines on Health Promotion for Older People: Social determinants, Inequality and Sustainability - Health PRO Elderly” - researcher and manager of the project (2005-2008); 73.083,75 EUR; • Specific transversal project “[Breaking the Taboo Two] – Developing and testing tools to train the trainer” – researcher and manager of the project (2009-2011); • National Programme Research Programme “Bio-psiho-social model of quality of life” (Slovenian Research Academy) (2003 - 2007); • Erasmus project “Caring for the older person: The Development of a “Living Curriculum” – member of a team, helping managing the project (2001-2003) • Leonardo da Vinci project “Harmonizing Occupational Health Nursing in the EU” – researcher and manager of the project (2005-2007) • Bilateral project with USA (2006) “Distant e-learning for nursing education DENED” - main researcher (2006) • Bilateral project with Greece “Computer Supported Continuous Distant Learning for Nurses “ – researcher (2007) • Bilateral project with Austria “ePPAC: E-learning platform for palliative care “ - researcher and manager of the project (2008) • Bilateral project with Hungary “Computer supported continuous distant learning for health workers – CONDEL “ - researcher and manager of the project (2009) • National project “Healthy nutrition and movement for life protection and life strengthen” - coordinator and researcher and of the project (2007) • National project “E-education in ecology” - researcher and manager of the project (2008) • 7th FP “Sustainable measures for industrial laundry expansion strategies: SMART LAUNDRY-2015 – SMILES” – researcher (2008-2011) • Leonardo da Vinci project “Development of basic and advanced training modules for cleaning service enterprises in order to implement the European Regulation – Hygtrain” – researcher (2007-2009) - Leonardo da Vinci project “Older people