29/10/2024

UIC Barcelona partners with eight European universities to revolutionise global health education

This international alliance has resulted in Educare 5.0, a European project presented by nine universities that aims to drive health education through digital transformation and sustainable innovation

With the care of the person at the centre, UIC Barcelona together with eight other European universities have spearheaded the project Shaping the Future of Healthcare Through Digital Transformation and Sustainable Innovation. Participating in the initiative along with UIC Barcelona are the Hochschule Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSBI) from Germany; the FH Salzburg from Austria; KVK (Klaipedos Valstybine Kolegija) from Lithuania; Egas Moniz from Portugal; Medical University of Lublin from Poland; University of Medicine and Pharmacy ‘Grigore T. Popa’ of Iasi in Romania; Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem in the Czech Republic; and the Escola Superior de Tecnologias da Saúde do Tâmega e Sousa (ESTeSTS) in Portugal.

The aim of the programme presented by the nine universities is to leverage innovative digital tools to improve the quality of healthcare knowledge transfer. This includes research, teaching, entrepreneurship and community impact across six strategic pillars.

The collaboration plans to establish a centre to advance digital literacy, create nine research centres to address the most pressing health challenges, activate an entrepreneurial ecosystem across nine laboratories, deploy a digital campus - the Genesis Campus, foster collaborative ecosystems to pilot fifteen care models, and establish a sustainable pathway for health education and innovation transfer.

The Genesis Campus will seek to support collaborative teaching through joint online courses, specialised healthcare programmes or clinical education exchange to share practical knowledge. In addition, the Campus will offer mobility programmes that will combine physical exchanges with digital learning models.

Within the framework of this cooperation, Eduardo Mirpuri, vice-rector for International Relations and Mònica Luque, European Alliances and Projects manager, visited the Hochschule Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Bielefeld (Germany) this October to meet with the other representatives of the Educare programme and further develop the project strategy.

📷 Photo by Thomas Handke