Education Hubs for Excellence in Midwifery Erasmus Project

Project Title

Education Hubs for Excellence in Midwifery

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 2018

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

Trained midwives can avert maternal and newborn deaths. With the support of international organizations and national policy initiatives midwifery has become a rapidly growing field, in which HEIs can play a critical role. SafeMa project will develop a midwifery professional training course on ‘Advanced Midwifery Practice’, comprising of eight modules that can be taught as short courses, and facilitated internship. It will fully align with ICM Global Standards for Midwifery Education and focus on specific learning objectives that respond to identified skills shortages. Its methodology will promote clinical and research skills and experiential, hands-on learning.The course will be at the core of the SafeMa Hubs: model teaching, research and pedagogic resource centres in midwifery, established in each partner university. Hubs will also support midwifery at the local and regional levels, with particular emphasis to remote rural areas, partnering with hospitals and health centres, for improving youth awareness, attitudes and behaviour about reproductive health and women rights. They will themselves be strengthened by the creation of partnerships with other national and international institutions and organisations. Hubs will support a Research Cluster aiming to produce interdisciplinary research of rigour and relevance both locally and globally in a diverse range of areas relevant to midwifery. The RC is expected to act as an incubator for larger research projects and funding. SafeMa will support strong synergies with UN, WHO, ICM, FIGO, IPA and other projects that work towards the empowerment of midwifery and the cooperation with local, regional and national authorities and health services, the national associations of midwives and other key stakeholders.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 824940 Eur

Project Coordinator

ETHNIKO KAI KAPODISTRIAKO PANEPISTIMIO ATHINON & Country: EL

Project Partners

• BOLYNO INTERNATIONAL GROUP CO LTD
• HANOI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY
• RESEARCH INNOVATION AND DEVELOPMENT LAB PRIVATE COMPANY
• TRUONG DAI HOC DIEU DUONG NAM DINH
• UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES
• PROFESSIONSHOJSKOLEN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE NORDJYLLAND
• DAI HOC THAI NGUYEN