Dirisana+ Erasmus Project

Project Title

Dirisana+

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 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

South Africa and Namibia need to transform their approach to education in the health sciences within HEIs for staff and students, so as to improve graduate employability and to improve healthcare in southern Africa. With high unemployment rates in both countries, constraints on national funding and visibly poor performance of first year students at HEIs, a need exists for us to collaborate to ensure transformation in our education practice that is both aligned with our strategic goals and is sustainable. The Dirisana + project aims to provide culturally-responsive quality health and science education based on evidence and directed at enabling students to address the health needs of the individual, the family, the community and the population, despite resource constraints in our environment. The project focuses on developing our staff through training programmes and studies; to align our education strategies around issues affecting student pass rates, and work readiness in the health care sector (clinical relevance); to use teaching methods that will be conducive of quality education in a resource constraint environment; to acknowledge and support student’s needs; to collaborate with teaching and learning practices; and to provide constructive advice for alignment of the curriculum with the real world of work in southern Africa.

Project Website

https://www.up.ac.za/dirisana

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 1000000 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA & Country: ZA

Project Partners

• TURUN YLIOPISTO
• WELWITCHIA UNIVERSITY (PROPRIETARY) LIMITED
• UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, DUBLIN
• UNIVERSITEIT MAASTRICHT
• UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND JOHANNESBURG
• SEFAKO MAKGATHO HEALTH SCIENCES UNIVERSITY
• UNIVERSITY OF NAMIBIA