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The final Project meeting was held on 21-22nd of September, 2012 at Antalya, Turkey with the special participation of Prof. Dr. Wolfram Ebell from Charity University, Berlin.

Pilot studies were conducted in Turkey (Anadolu Medical Center, Hacettepe University Hospital, Oncology Nurses Association’s Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Nursing Course, Akdeniz University Hospital, and Dışkapı Children’s Health and Diseases Oncology Hospital), Czech Republic (Motol University Hospital) Spain (La Fe University Hospital), and Germany (Charite University Hospital) throughout September 2012.

Head Nurse Nevin Çetin and Project Group Team Member Ajdan Küçükçiftçi introduced the project and bmtcare web portal via the dissemination activity made at Anadolu Medical Center in İstanbul on 17th September, 2012.

Head Nurse Nevin Çetin introduced the project and bmtcare web portal via the dissemination activity made at Oncology Nurses Association’s Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Nursing Course on 20th September, 2012

Prof. Dr. Duygu Uçkan, Head Nurse Nevin Çetin and other project group team members from Hemosoft introduced the project and bmtcare web portal via the dissemination activity made at Akdeniz University Hospital, Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit in Antalya on 21st September, 2012.

The 3rd Scientific Meeting of the Project was held on 26-27th of April, 2012, at Bremen University, in Bremen Germany with the participation of guest participant Prof. Dr. Wolfram Ebell from Charity University, Berlin.

Dr. Petr Sedlaçek and Dr. Duygu Uçkan attended the 38th Annual Meeting of the European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation on 1-4 April 2012, in Geneva, Switzerland.

Head Nurse Nevin Çetin and Senior Nurse Güliz Karataş from Hacettepe University Hospital Pediatric BMT Unit disseminated our project results at the 7th National BMT and Stem Cell Treatments Congress in Antalya, Turkey on behalf of our project group.

Our project group participated and disseminated project outputs to pediatric BMT nurses at “The 8th Meeting of the EBMT Pediatric Diseases WP” on 7-9 June 2012, in Prague, Czech Republic

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Prof Dr. Duygu Uçkan, Head Nurse Nevin Çetin and other project group team members from Hemosoft introduced the project and bmtcare web portal via the dissemination activity made at Dışkapı Children’s Health and Diseases Oncology Hospital in Ankara on 3rd September, 2012.

Our project group participated and disseminated project outputs to pediatric BMT nurses at “The 8th Meeting of the EBMT Pediatric Diseases WP” on 7-9 June 2012, in Prague, Czech Republic

Dr. Petr Sedlaçek and Dr. Duygu Uçkan attended the 38th Annual Meeting of the European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation on 1-4 April 2012, in Geneva, Switzerland.

Head Nurse Nevin Çetin and Senior Nurse Güliz Karataş from Hacettepe University Hospital Pediatric BMT Unit disseminated our project results at the 7th National BMT and Stem Cell Treatments Congress in Antalya, Turkey on behalf of our project group.

Project Kick-off Meeting Convened in Istanbul, Turkey
Kick-off Meeting of the Project titled Interactive Educational Material for Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplantation Nurses convened in Istanbul, Turkey on 14 December 2010. Representatives of the Project partners as well as guests invited by Hemosoft (Project Coordinator - P1) attended the Meeting.

The meeting was inaugurated by Hemosoft, Project Coordinator (P1)'s project development team. Members of Hemosoft's project development team introduced themselves, made a presentation on Hemosoft's company profile, talked about previous Leonardo da Vinci Project experience of Hemosoft and thanked all partners for taking part in this very important project. All partners then introduced themselves and made presentations about their respective organizations. This was followed by further presentations by the Hemosoft team, Hacettepe University (P2) Project Manager and the guests from the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). It was particularly beneficial to have the EACEA observers among the participants of the Meeting as they provided invaluable information about the administrative and financial aspects of the project and answered questions raised by other participants. Discussions on several important issues were held among the partners during the presentations and discussion sessions.

eScience Institute, University of Bremen

The eScience Institute is a cooperatively operated competence centre for computing, data storage and networking infrastructure, multimedia solutions, applied information technologies and communications systems as well as communication networks and mobile networks. The main focus is to support the complete scientific lifecycle, from background research, through simulation and experimental design, data collection and analysis to publication. eScience Institute has expertise in managing, analyzing or visualizing data, in developing algorithms, in managing clusters and storage resources, and in finding the right place to compute and to store the data.




With its cooperatively organized model the eScience Institute can cover a broad range of applied information technologies (e.g. methods, algorithms, software systems for computer aided diagnosis, therapy and training). As a consequence eScience Institute promotes applications and subsequently the development of high grade, intelligent information and communication technology systems. As replacement and successor of the Centre for Applied Technologies (ZAIT) and with its cooperation with the Centre for Multimedia in Higher Education (ZMML) the eScience Institute has broad expertise in: Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD), Workflow Management Systems, Virtual Research Environments Knowledge based Learning Systems and Software Development


The main focus of eScience Institute is Knowledge discovery in data bases (KDD). KDD is the non-trivial extraction of implicit, previously unknown and potentially useful knowledge from data. It blends together sound mathematical methods and automated techniques to discover knowledge. Self-organizing maps (SOM´s, i.e. Kohonen self-organizing maps) are used for visualization, prediction, clustering and modeling of the (individual) outcome.
Based on the results of KDD methods many knowlegde based systems in many medical areas (e.g. oncology, cardiology, laboratory medicine, intensive care) are developed in eScience Institute to support the medical decision process and to improve the quality of medical results.
Approximately 300 children have been transplanted in the Unit and yearly 20-25 patients undergo HSCT. About 60% of the patients have received HSCT for diagnosis of a non-malignant disease and the rest consists of hematological malignancies.

The eScience Institute initiates and coordinates national and international projects on use of ICT in research area; identifies, develops, accumulates and disseminates collaborative research scenarios; collaborates with universities, corporations, agencies, and community-based organizations to design, develop, use, and evaluate systems that support the scientific life cycle.

The eScience Institute has acquired, managed and participated in several R&D projects in the field of e-Learning and medical care with the financial support of European community, national and regional programs and initiatives. The list of projects with transnational contribution of past 6 years: eMaris - Enhanced three-level competency-based curricula in Applied Marine Science, TEMPUS IV (EU), 2011 eLene2Learn: Elene2learn – Learning to learn, Lifelong Learning Programme, KA3-IT (EU), 2011 BMTCARE - Interactive Educational Material for Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplantation Nurses, Leonardo, 2010. eLene-TLC: eLearning network for the development of a Teaching and Learning service Centre, DG EAC/01/06, 2007 E-training of medical staff to reach adolescents of different cultures, Leonardo, 2006 eLene-TT: e-Learning network for Teacher Training, DG EAC/26/04, 2005 V3 - Versatile Vocational and educational training Vehicle, Leonardo, 2005 CemLib - Development of Class and Lab Experiments Model Library to Enhance the Quality of Engineering Education, Leonardo, 2005 HaMoNet - Network to develop and promote mobility in vocational training, INTERREG III C - Hanse Passage, 2005 Hanse Network - Knowledge Transfer in Vocational Education, INTERREG III C - Hanse Passage, 2004
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