Vaccine Effectiveness, Burden and Impact Studies (VEBIS) of COVID-19 and Influenza – Tender Specifications OJ/2021/DPR/12924  skills and knowledge of the study protocol. The training will facilitate the sharing of  information which could help other long-term care facility and/or (sub-)national  teams to build capacity and conduct the studies. Training sessions will need to be  considered in the form of workshops addressed to all countries, or targeted to  specific countries. The deliverable includes presentations, minutes, actions points,  feedback from participants, recommendations and plans on how to implement the  recommendations.  Power Point  DL 3.5.3. Report on  capacity building  Report on the steps taken by the contractor throughout the course of the  implementation of the specific contract to ensure countries can become  independent in implementing the protocols and validating the data. The deliverable  includes presentations, minutes, actions points, as well as recommendations. The  report should be at least 15 pages and include a table of content, description of the  steps taken throughout the project to support and train the countries, executive  summary, discussion on results/lessons learned, conclusions and plans on how to  implement the recommendations and action points.  Once every two  years  Word - ECDC  template  Task 6: Additional studies  The contractor is expected to design and perform an estimated two additional studies built on the population of the main study. The objective of the studies  will be agreed in advance with ECDC and they could be studies validating with additional sources of data the results of the main study, studies describing  the impact of the vaccination programmes in long-term care facilities, studies pooling data from different vaccine effectiveness outbreak investigations  using the same protocol, or transmission studies. Deliverable (DL)  Description  Estimated  frequency/ Volume  File / form at type  DL 3.6.1. Protocols for  additional studies  within LTCFs (such as  Impact studies,  Validation studies,  Sensitivity studies)  Protocol for additional studies within long-term care facilities.  The protocol shall include standard operating procedures (SOPs) for recruitment of  study participants, data management, data checking and validation, reporting and  data transfers, and data analysis, as annexes of the study protocol. Deliverable  includes a statistical analysis plan for a pooled analysis. The protocol will include a  detailed description of all testing and laboratory components included in the study  and type of frequency sampling, a codebook with a minimum set and the full list of  variables to be collected; sample size calculations, questionnaire/s to be  administered to the study participants.  Two times, in year  2 and 3  Word 