Advancing University Education in Biomedical Engineering and Health Management in Kyrgyzstan Erasmus Project

Project Title

Advancing University Education in Biomedical Engineering and Health Management in Kyrgyzstan

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 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

The project idea is based on the observation that the state of the healthcare system in Kyrgyzstan is suboptimal and education regarding the operation of advanced medical equipment (such as diagnostic devices) is poor. Even the Kyrgyz Ministry of Healthcare admits that expensive medical equipment located at public hospitals cannot be operated because personal (medical doctors and technical staff) lack the required knowledge of operating (to western standards well-established) medical devices. An important objective of the project therefore is to sustainably facilitate the stakeholders for ongoing device usage, beyond the device acquisition. This should be accomplished by developing study programmes (curricula) for healthcare informatics and biomedical engineering which shall be established at the participating Kyrgyz partner universities.Within the framework of the project + “KyrMedu: Advancing Higher Education in Biomedical Engineering and Healthcare Management in Kyrgyzstan”, since 2015, seven universities in Kyrgyzstan were implementing large-scale activities to introduce innovative educational programmes. For this purpose, the project consortium has increased their teaching capacities, equipped the material, technical and educational capacities for practical and distance learning and strengthened the cooperation with medical institutions, economic partners, the Ministry of Education and Science, and the Ministry of Health of the Kyrgyz Republic. Also, a modern medical laboratory was created with a value of more than 238,000EUR (the KyrMedu Lab at KSMA and athe Cloud Lab infrastructure connecting the other Kyrgyz KyrMedu universities to the KyrMedu Lab), which is designed to share for all project partner universities as a training base for practice and laboratory classes.The objective of the project is to solve problems in the health sector by developing and implementing interdisciplinary educational programmes. Therefore, the project consortium covers four regional and three Bishkek universities with expertise in technical, medical and health care informatics directions, as well as three European universities with expertise in the implementation of international projects in medical informatics, biomedical engineering and e-learning technologies. The purpose of the project consortium is to create educational programmes where the disciplines of medicine, information technology and management meet. The final conference of the project was hosted at Talas State University (TSU) on April 11 and 12, 2019. In the frame of the project, a joint curriculum was developed and implemented that meets the requirements of the modern labor market and is oriented to practice. During the implementation of the project, all partner universities successfully launched the bachelor programme “Health Informatics and Biomedical Engineering”, where more than 120 students are currently enrolled. osh Stae University implemented the master programme “Healtch Care Management”. Favorable learning conditions have been created for them, in particular, the tele-teaching infrastructure is equipped with modern equipment, computer equipment and measuring and diagnostic devices for practical and laboratory classes. As well, total 183 teachers completed advanced training courses in Germany, Romania and Croatia. Communication with local medical institutions has been established and cooperation agreements have been signed for practice, internship and employment. The regional universities in Talas, Osh, Naryn and Issyk-Kul have made and are making a huge contribution to the sustainable development of the respective regions in the fields of education and health. Recognizing such an effective impact of the project at the regional level, the final meeting of partners with the participation of project stakeholders was conducted at one of the regional universities, TSU. Results of the project and Dissemination and sustainibility plan on: kyrmedu.org

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 899624 Eur

Project Coordinator

WESTSACHSISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZWICKAU & Country: DE

Project Partners

• KYRGYZ STATE UNIVERSITY OF CONSTRUCTION, TRANSPORT AND ARCHITECTURE NAMED AFTER N.ISANOV
• TALAS MAMLEKETTIK UNIVERSITETI
• THE KYRGYZ STATE MEDICAL ACADEMY NAMED AFTER I K AKHUNBAEV
• OSH STATE UNIVERSITY
• S. NAAMATOV NARYN STATE UNIVERSITY
• ISSYKKUL STATE UNIVERSITY NAMED AFTER K.TYNYSTANOV
• SVEUCILISTE U ZAGREBU