SCOPE Learning Project

The Strengthening Collaboration for Operating Pharmacovigilance in Europe (SCOPE) Joint Action aims to help medicines regulators operate pharmacovigilance systems to meet the EU legislative requirements.

Regulators are collaborating to improve skills and capability across the European network, which will help safeguard public health in both national territories and the EU as a whole.

The SCOPE Joint Action will run from 2013 until October 2016. It has been created to support operations of pharmacovigilance in Europe following new requirements introduced by the European pharmacovigilance legislation that came into effect in June 2012.

Funded by the Consumers, Health and Food Executive Agency (CHAFEA) and with contributions from Member States involved, SCOPE will gather information and expertise on how regulators in Member States run their national pharmacovigilance systems.

Using this information, SCOPE will develop and deliver guidance, training, tools and templates to support best practice. Through this approach SCOPE aims to support consistent approaches in pharmacovigilance operations in the EU network, which will benefit the safety monitoring of medicines and communications outputs, thereby helping to safeguard public health.

Website platform The learning content will be delivered online, accessed from the existing SCOPE website. A ‘Learning’ tab needs to be added to the home page to link to the new content.

The learning content needs to be optimised and accessible through mobile devices: tablets and smart phones.

The learning content needs to meet recognised industry standards for accessibility.

The content will be moved to another website in the future so will need to be designed to be easily extracted or moved from the SCOPE website.

Authoring package We require a simple authoring package solution that requires minimal / basic training so we can easily access and update content ourselves. Adobe Captivate would be our preference. We may require basic training in the package when appropriate in the project.

Learning management system We would like to explore the option of a simple easy-to-use learning management system so users can register, we can monitor usage and issue learning completion certificates which could count towards professional CPD. All learning content should be interactive material built to SCORM (Shareable Content Object Reference Model) standards.

Template-based system We require branded templates designed so learning content can be uploaded in the future quickly and easily. The range of templates to be proposed by the supplier once the learning content has been reviewed. We would require training and clear guidance notes on how to use any templates and systems developed.