📋 Tender Overview
VICTORY's ambitious plan will allow every young person (students, healthcare workers and junior academics from 18-30 years) to access high-quality international and cross-cultural education without physical mobility. A digital curriculum to educate, discuss and debate approaches to primary healthcare (family medicine and pharmacy), supplemented with simulated cases, will be developed by academics in Malawi, Hungary and Ireland. We will highlight the differences in primary healthcare in Europe and Africa and enable participants on both continents to appreciate cultural and resource implications on healthcare access and outcomes.
In phase 1, online facilitated discussions will be held between target groups. Moderators from multidisciplinary backgrounds in participating EU universities (UCD,TCD, and UMFST) will lead the online meetings with the involvement of students and staff from 2 Malawian universities (UNILIA,MU) and 1 from Zimbabwe (AU). The current primary healthcare situation in Malawi, Zimbabwe, Ireland and Hungary will be compared and challenges will be identified.
Phase 2 will involve the development of digitised course material based on the Phase 1 discussion. Nine core topics, each with three sub-topics (n=27), will be made freely available on a UCD-hosted Moodle platform. This course material will include common illness presentations in Europe and Africa and highlight differences in causality and management strategies on these continents. Multidisciplinary discussions will detail the importance of culture and caring for marginalised groups.
In the 3rd phase, all topics will be delivered and discussed online (n=27) amongst younger participants. The expected participation number is 2500, and the material will be made available not just for the participants of the VICTORY project but for those not enrolled in any HEI.
VICTORY considers digital transformation and the green agenda through developing e-learning approaches, removing the need for travel.
