Cooperation partnerships/Strategic partnerships Erasmus+

ePlanet

ePlanet aims to develop education material on planetary health for students of the health professions/in the medical field. The goal is to equip future health professionals with the knowledge they need to promote and deliver sustainable health and health care.

Accredited online micro-learning modules will transport a holistic and systems-based understanding of individual and community health, and its reliance on healthy environments. The learning modules will provide knowledge on the effects of climate change on health, address values and attitudes regarding the roles and responsibilities of health professionals, and focus on sustainable practices in the health sector.

Through providing educational resources, the ePlanet project aims to assist institutions in addressing an unmet educational need and accelerate the implementation of climate change and health into health professions curricula, without adding significantly to the curricular load. 

Coordinating partner is University Medical Center Utrecht (the Netherlands). Associated partners are Karolinska Institutet (Stockholm, Sweden), Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of the University of Ghent (Belgium), Charité, Medical Faculty of the Humboldt-University (Berlin, Germany), and Superbuff, applied gaming and digital platforms (The Hague, the Netherlands).

ENVISION_2027

This new European Network for Virtual Lab & Interactive Simulated Online learning 2027  is an extension of a current educational collaborative network NordBioMedNet, with a specific focus on virtual/online practical training. KI will be responsible for the coordination of the virtual laboratory training. While the need of virtual/online practical training became apparent during the corona pandemic, a similar project on virtual lab training as a pedagogic developmental project has been running in the Biomedicine programmes for a couple of years.

The virtual lab training can also cater students’ different types of learning style and offer a variety of techniques that might not be feasible to teach/learn during an on-campus course. 

Since the start of the project in June 2021, several courses in the Bachelor of Biomedicine have implemented the use of digital lab with satisfactory response from students. We are now evaluating the benefit of digital lab with our partner university, based on feedback from hundreds of students within the Biomedicine disciplines. 

The ENVISION_2027 network is coordinated by the University of Turku. The other participating higher education institutions (HEIs) are in Finland, the University of Eastern Finland, the Åbo Akademi University; in Norway, the University of Bergen and in the United Kingdom, the University of Leeds.

DATAETHICS

Changing Landscapes in the Health and Life Sciences: Ethical Challenges of Big Data

The Eurolife Consortium, in which Karolinska Institutet is one of 9 institutional partners, has been awarded an Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership grant towards its transnational project aiming at updating the conceptual and ethical considerations that arise from Biomedical Big Data (BBD) collection and use. The project is coordinated by the University Medical Center Göttingen, University of Göttingen, which is currently also coordinating Eurolife.

DATAETHICS enables a shared understanding and a common vision on BBD across Europe through testing and implementation of an innovative on-line training package developed through activities based on value and knowledge education and with actions of cooperation with interdisciplinary expertise and industry. The e-courses will be engaging through the mix spurts of text, audio, webinars, discussion boards and hands-on exercises and will actualize the content to mirror the technological advancements incorporating cultural, legal and social differences.

Within DATAETHICS, the consortium will develop a novel Open Education Resources: a learning environment via an interactive e-platform and an on-line training package of courses, through which we will address the identified challenges with respect to curation, interpretation and analysis of accumulating biomedical datasets. With the novel practical tools, content and guidelines offered here, the project brings improved and durable availability of training with real-life examples, which will allow acquisition of the breadth and depth of skills and knowledge that students and teachers currently need in the life sciences. Furthermore, it facilitates unification of learning criteria and opens a window of opportunity for continuous improvement in the delivery of quality teaching in Higher Education.

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