"Memory Media explored health and social care issues in a consortium of five partners: Dundee and Angus College and Forth Valley College (UK), Centro de Formación Somorrostro (Spain), FoU Centrum, Linköpings Kommun (Sweden) and Gannan Medical University, China. This international partnership aimed to enhance the attractiveness of HE courses in Europe by looking outside of Europe to one of the strongest economies in the world and how they assign resources to the care of older people. Creating an opportunity for convergence of two different cultural approaches (East meeting West) brought benefits to partners’ HE curricula. The project idea arose from research findings that approaches which use art/multi-media are having an impact in dementia care. Cognitive stimulation is a recommended evidence-based intervention for people living with dementia. People with mild-to-moderate dementia should be offered the opportunity to participate in cognitive stimulation activities including informal stimulation through recreational activities and/or more formally via structured programmes which aim to provide stimulating activities based on psychological theories of cognition. Activities can be carried out by health professionals, carers or relatives in a variety of settings. The project undertook comparative research and created new practical and theory-based teaching materials to teach students in HEIs how East and Western approaches work in different ways. The project used techniques from digital media to create a stimulating ""memory box"" app that can be used in health and social care and/or community settings. Outputs include a project website, research findings, teaching and learning material and a series of peer teaching course-plans. The project achieved this through reaching five objectives: 1) To work with a transnational consortium (Europe and China) to create new learning resources for HE learners which adopt innovative approaches to care for people living with dementia. 2) To promote cross cultural learning and better understand how Eastern and Western approaches can converge to create workable practical solutions. 3) To develop teachers’/trainers’ competences to ensure they have the necessary knowledge and skills to use the resources with their HE learners. 4) To draw on existing research from Europe and China to explore a common way forward that meets the changing needs of government health and social care policies and the shift from institutional care to home care from the West, and the growing need for institutional care from the East. 5) To lay the foundations for a Capacity Building in Higher Education Project in the pipeline by building a strong strategic partnership to inform this future development. 247 learners and 93 teachers (higher than the expected 48 learners and 12 teachers) evaluated the resources. Teachers & learners then came together in peer learning events to exchange ideas and carry out practical learning to ensure participation and deep & long-lasting impacts. Those directly involved experienced positive impacts, personally & professionally (e.g. increased motivation, job satisfaction, development of intercultural skills) & a sense of achievement. They gained a more positive attitude towards the EU, and a better understanding of skills levels in other countries. The project brought benefits primarily to students and teachers but also to health and social care professionals who gained valuable new resources for use in practical care settings."