On the 28th and 29th of April 2022, delegates from six organizations in Europe joined forces to establish the guidelines for the development of a new e-learning module on chemsex. This training builds on the results from the European survey that the project partners carried out in 2021 to identify new training needs among drug professionals in the EU. 727 professionals from 24 countries participated in the survey and 48% asked for training on Chemsex.

During the meeting in Madrid, the delegates from the six partner organisations established the guidelines for the development of this new e-learning module on chemsex. Once the first development of the e-learning module is completed, the project partners will test it with addiction professionals across the EU in order to assess how effective it is in delivering the learning objectives. Based on the results from the testing, the project partners will implement the necessary improvements before the final publication of the new e-learning module on chemsex, in December 2023, in seven languages (English, Spanish, Slovenian, Portuguese, Dutch, German and Czech) under a Creative Commons license. Thus allowing anyone to freely use it, modify it and build upon it.

The development of this e-learning module is an initiative of UNAD -The Spanish Network of Addiction Organisations- in collaboration with UTRIP -Institute for Research and Development- (Slovenia), DIANOVA (Portugal), SANANIM (Czech Republic), and DAH -The German AIDS Service Organisation- (Germany). C-EHRN is happy to join this consortium as a reviewer and tester of the training. The project is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.