HEROES Joint Action
HEROES Joint Action (HEalth woRkfOrce to meet health challEngeS), is dedicated to be a worthy successor of the JA Health Workforce and the SEPEN Joint Tender. These projects have achieved important results in the field of planning and forecasting of health workforce in the recent years. Continuity is indicated in this website as HEROES JA took over healthworkforce.eu serving as a guiding platform of the health workforce field, where results of the previous projects remain also available.
Lisa Baldini
programme and financial manager agenas| italy
“HEROES is probably going to be the core of all European initiatives focusing on health workforce. HEROES is the Joint Action that aims to improve the capacity of EU Member States to better organise and plan their health workforce. The goal, that is being pursued by the 19 participating countries, is to have robust databases, appropriate planning methodologies, effective stakeholder involvement and to further improve skills of health workforce planners. The strength of this Joint Action lies in the exchange of good practices and experiences to produce results that can help all EU Member States to improve their expertise and capabilities, thus creating a European community of experts which has the potential to overcome the challenges on the issue of the health workforce planning.“
Eszter Kovacs
task leader | semmelweis university| hungary
“2025 is the year of HEROES Policy Dialogues! After completing several improvements in the technical aspects of national health workforce planning, the HEROES team started addressing the policy considerations. Policy dialogues aim to support the development and adoption of national, regional, local policies related to effective health workforce planning. Key stakeholders are invited at national and EU level to exchange ideas of complex issues in the various domains of health workforce planning. National level policy plans from 18 countries and further EU level policy plans will focus on tackling common problems and strengthening health workforce planning in Europe. With this activity, we are dedicated to ensure sustainable health workforces, and work for more accessible and resilient health systems, which eventually result in improved health workforce outcomes and lead to better health outcomes of the EU citizens.”
Ronald Batenburg
professoR | nivel | the netherlands
“This Joint Action creates the opportunity for countries to effectively learn from each other. Not only from good practices but also from countries that share the same healthcare system and health workforce challenges. This principle of ‘country learning clusters’ will improve the cross-fertilisation and country support, which needed more than ever to mitigate the extraordinary pressure on our health workforces today.”
Dora Toth
senior expert | okfő | hungary
“Optimizing the human workforce in health care is one of the biggest challenges today. I believe that the methodologies and health policies set up in the HEROES project and the knowledge transfer between Member States will help to bring about major system changes for a better healthcare environment with the joint effort in Europe.”
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