Duration: 2024-2027
This mobility projects intends to facilitate the exchange of students and teaching staff to broaden their horizons, promote cross-cultural understanding, enhance their skills and competencies, and collaborate to address the global health challenges encountered.The project will facilitate the mobility of students that will carry out clinical training activity in the hospitals linked with the Universities patnering in the project. They will also attend workshops and seminars covering relevant topics. Students and teachers will have the opportunity to follow seminars also in the frame of UNIMI’s vocational master program in Global Health, that focuses on the study of major global health issues from a multidisciplinary and international perspective.
Project Leader
- Department of Medicine, University of Milan
Partners
- Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Gulu (Uganda)
- Faculty of Health Sciences, State University of Zanzibar (United Republic of Tanzania)
- St. Mary’s Hospital, Lacor (Uganda)
Funding
- EU – Erasmus+
Goal
To cultivate the concept of global health: the exchange between faculty from the two institutions is seen as highly fruitful in this regard.
Objectives
- To facilitate the exchange of learning skills;
- To promote the professional development of participants.
Activities
- Mobility of teachers to and from the University of Milan (department of medicine), and the University of Gulu and the State University of Zanzibar (faculties of health sciences) for teaching activities, discussions on different methodologies and organizational approach, seminars focused on the research areas explored by the project, such as infectious diseases, hygiene, oral health, and assessment of clinical training performance;
- Mobility of students, both incoming and outgoing, from each University involved. The University of Milan will send specializing or PhD students, in the field of public health, hygiene, infectious diseases, maternal and child-care, internal medicine, and non-communicable diseases, to carry out clinical training activity in the hospitals linked with the partner universities in Gulu and Zanzibar. The students from Gulu and Zanzibar will participate in training activities and clinical observation in the hospitals linked with the University of Milan.
Impact
- The project will strengthen the collaboration among the partnering institutions;
- The project can have also more general effects as it offers a more modern vision of the idea of internationalization, also understood as a response to the needs of less developed countries and therefore of cooperation.