Virtual Centre for Prenatal Education

<< Background >>To address the significant need for accessible, science-based, and holistic prenatal education among future parents and related groups. VICEPRED was created to offer information, skills, and emotional support through interactive and innovative digital tools—educational games, videos, slideshows, doodles and more—structured into three Hubs: Relational, Informational, and Soft Skills. Based on the needs expressed by 550 respondents across partner countries through a questionnaire applied before the project, we identified gaps in understanding key pregnancy stages, healthy lifestyles, and emotional preparedness. Respondents also expressed the need for better communication with their partners, families, and even the unborn child, along with tools for stress management and creativity development. Through this project, we aim to empower future parents from diverse backgrounds to find creative solutions and take an active, informed, and joyful role in welcoming new life, help professionals to acknowledge future parents’ needs providing support for a more conscious parenting. VICEPRED helps restore the balance between the medical and emotional aspects of pregnancy, promoting public awareness of the importance of prenatal education.<< Objectives >>By implementing VICEPRED Project our intention was to increase knowledge, skills and attitudes of parents-to-be from the beginning of the pregnancy in order to achieve better parenting outcomes and facilitate the development of the child's potential, The Virtual Centre for Prenatal Education, created by the 9 Project Partners on the e-learning platform www.omaedu.ro, enables future parents to be aware of the importance of preparing for child conception several months in advance by adopting a healthy lifestyle, provides information to make conscious choices and live in harmony during the prenatal period and to develop parenting skills before birth. The Virtual Centre for Prenatal Education consists of 9 thematic rooms grouped in 3 Hubs: Relationship, Information and Soft Skills Hub.. Visiting each of the 9 rooms is part of a journey where both future parents and the professionals who accompany them, as well as the general public, can discover new ways to relate to their daily life when the baby appears, first as an idea, then as a cell, an embryo, a foetus and then as a long-awaited baby. We want to raise awareness at the societal level of the importance of preparing for conception and the birth of future children.<< Implementation >>The activities of the VICEPRED project were based on the cooperation among the 9 partners to create Virtual Centre for Prenatal Education’s structure with 3 Hubs and 9 Rooms, named according to the content of the topics addressed and presented in the form of videos, slideshows, doodle shows, information capsules, case studies, educational games, applications, database of scientific studies and glossary of terms, culinary recipes from all partner countries, quizzes with questions that can be used in further research.In this regard Relationship Hub contains Rooms 1-3: Ancestors, Couple Relationship,, Parent- child bond; Informational Hub contains Rooms 4-6: Stages of pregnancy and birth, Glossary and Scientific Studies Data base, ,Healthy lifestyle; Soft skills Hub contains Rooms 7-9: Creativity, Nature relationship, Soft-skills.Project activities included the 3 transnational meetings Romania, Greece and Italy, 1 learning event staff C1 in Greece, 1 Conference in Italy, an awareness & information campaigns via Social Media, webinars, other meetings with associated partners etc.<< Results >>The concrete results of the VICEPRED project can be found on the platform www.omaedu.ro and some of them outnumber the initially planned products:: 6 Doodles, 37 Videos, 27 (2 more than originally planned) Slideshows, 50 (+8 more than originally planned) Info Capsules, 3 Educational games, 4 Applications (music, colors), 270 International Repertoire with culinary recipes for pregnancy (at least 150 more than originally planned), 2 Music Repertoires, Glossary with 300 terms (+100 terms more than 200 initially planned), a Study database with 375 abstracts of scientific studies regarding pregnancy -, given in common language, (+175 than 200 originally planned), 25 case studies, 13 questionnaires in order to initiate future research. These products were developed in the project language, English, and then translated into the partner languages: Romanian, French, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Latvian. Other results: Awareness & Information campaigns, new Social media channels, articles, webinars, mailings, participation at Congresses and different events to present the VICEPRED project