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World Health Organization (WHO) reports emphasize the need to implement new healthcare models centred on Primary Health Care and in this context both WHO and EU recommendations identify the Family and Community Nurse (FCN) as a key actor. However, despite WHO recommendations, there is a lack of standardized Professional Profile for FCN at EU level in the main EU reference tools and classifications. In the effort to address this gap, the ENhANCE (EuropeaN curriculum for fAmily aNd Community nursE) project aims to elaborate a European Professional Profile for FCNs, along with a European Curriculum to become FCN. In this contribution, the Curriculum development process is described. This encompassed four main steps: (1) studying the current educational provision for FCN in Europe, (2) profiling FCN, (3) developing the actual European Curriculum, and (4) instantiating the EU Curriculum into national curricula and validating such localizations through piloting. The preliminary evaluation results of the Professional Profile, the European Curriculum, as well as the national curricula are presented. In the Discussion section, the main criticalities, challenges, as well as strong points are highlighted.

Ageing populations represent a challenge to the sustainability of current healthcare systems. The need to balance these demographic changes with gains in healthy life years and quality of life (QoL) constitutes an additional challenge. Aware of this, the European Commission (EC) launched the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIPonAHA) in 2012. The EIPonAHA is an interdisciplinary and cross-sector initiative involving more than 3000 partners with two specific objectives: to increase the healthy life expectancy of Europeans by two years by 2020, while increasing their QoL. The initiatives of the EIPonAHA have been organized according to six thematic action groups (AGs), with the A3 group targeting areas relating to the prevention of functional decline and frailty. In addition to the good practices of partners, there are several on-going collaborative works. The involvement of the EC includes support through an elaborated research programme in which the Consumers, Health, Agriculture and Food Executive Agency (CHAFEA) and the Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT) are the main funding bodies. Screening approaches and preventive interventions constitute most of the initiatives within the A3 AG. Partners are distributed across five sub-groups according to good practices: i) cognitive decline, ii) food and nutrition, iii) physical activity, iv) caregivers, and v) frailty and functional decline. Regular updates of the progression of both good practices and collaborative works are presented in A3 AG meetings. The 2017 meeting in Valencia, Spain, showcased in this paper, provides an up-to-date overview of the current status of A3 activities. Frailty management Optimisation through EIPAHA Commitments and Utilisation of Stakeholders input (FOCUS) project; Consumers, Health, Agriculture and Food Executive Agency (CHAFEA) [664367]