Nephrology Partnership for Advancing Technology in Healthcare Erasmus Project

Project Title

Nephrology Partnership for Advancing Technology in Healthcare

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 : Knowledge Alliances for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

The prevention and care of chronic diseases are among the priorities of the EU’s current health strategy. Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), one of the most common chronic degenerative diseases, is often accompanied by high mortality and morbidity, and it has a high socio-economic impact. On the other hand, with the incidence rate of 13,3 million cases per year, Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) is a major contributor to the global health burden and the global death toll of this disease is 1,7 million deaths yearly. Amidst the rising tide of AKI and CKD burden, the global nephrology workforce has failed to expand in order to meet the growing healthcare needs of this vulnerable patient population, thus cooperation at an international level would be necessary to boost workforce and sustainable models of healthcare delivery. The Nephrology Partnership for Advancing Technology in Healthcare (N-PATH) will develop a European Strategic Partnership between Universities and clinic centres specialized in diagnostic and interventional nephrology with the overall objective (1) to stimulate the appeal in nephrology among learners at European level and (2) to improve the educational continuum, in order to respond to the unmet need to develop a policy framework for the provision of high-quality services within European health system.SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES developing innovative and multidisciplinary educational path with a patient-centered approach focusing on diagnostic and interventional nephrologyfostering the knowledge transfer from research to clinical practice in order to tackle risk management in health carestrengthening the cooperation among Universities and clinical centres in order to boost innovation and exchange of best practicespromoting the positive aspects of nephrology careers at European levelThe present proposal will jointly develop 4 curricula: Molecular Pathology, Vascular Access, Ultrasound and Peritoneal Dialysis.TARGET: 40 junior nephrologists (≤ 40 years old)

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 969560 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI BARI ALDO MORO & Country: IT

Project Partners

• E.M.A.C. – ELETTRONICA MEDICALE EDATTREZZATURE CHIMICOCLINICHE SRL
• UNIVERZITETNI KLINICNI CENTER LJUBLJANA
• VASCULAR ACCESS SOCIETY
• EUROPEAN RENAL ASSOCIATION EUROPEAN DIALYSIS AND TRANSPLANT ASSOCIATION
• EUREKA SRL
• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO
• VSEOBECNA FAKULTNI NEMOCNICE V PRAZE