Blended Education in Clinical Epidemiology and Big Data to improve Health in Indonesia Erasmus Project

Project Title

Blended Education in Clinical Epidemiology and Big Data to improve Health in Indonesia

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Capacity Building in higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

The short term impact of the HealthI (acronym; working title is Heath-I) project is the creation of a solid foundation of necessary knowledge and tools to develop locally an innovative, post-graduate education program in clinical epidemiology and big data. The long term impact of the Health-I project is the improvement of the health outcomes of the Indonesian population by building a critical mass of health researchers, particularly physicians, to generate evidence for health practice and policy.The Health-I project has the following objectives:1. Strengthen the capacity in clinical epidemiological and big data research by training the next generation of physicians and building a Community of Practice with experts in health research that are equipped to self-sustain, develop and amplify knowledge in this field of expertise;2. Enhance the capacity of teaching in (clinical) epidemiology and big data by training of trainers;3. Access to high quality education without limits of time and space by increasing the capacity to develop online education;4. Promote mutual understanding, exchange of good practices and collaborations between the partners.These objectives should be reached using the following tools:1. Developing and offering of online courses for physicians;2. Onsite training sessions with Indonesian trainers and participants in support of the online courses to guarantee indispensable social interaction among participants and staff from both Indonesia and Europe;3. Conduct of research projects supervised by European and Indonesian experts;4. Teaching of skills needed for the development of online education, including the use of technical facilities needed for developmentThe sustainability of the project is guaranteed through the train the trainer component, a business model for the online courses and continuing PhD training after the project. The results of the project will be disseminated actively via the consortium partners and their network.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 916479 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSITEIT UTRECHT & Country: NL

Project Partners

• UNIVERSITAS PAJAJARAN
• ELEVATE BV
• UNIVERSITY OF INDONESIA
• UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
• UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA
• GADJAH MADA UNIVERSITY