Through the eHealth Eurocampus project IT and health professionals were trained for the challenge of fostering a spirit of innovation in eHealth in Europe as the way forward to ensure better health and better and safer care, and relevant material was developed and is now available for other schools to benefit from it. The main objectives of the eHealth Eurocampus were to improve the relevance and quality of higher education in the field of ICT applications for health, to foster employability through curricula adaptation to labour market needs and to develop entrepreneurship skills. The project partners included 8 higher education institutions, which represented 7 IT schools (Barcelona School of Informatics, Polytechnic School of the Balearic Islands, Polytech Engineer School of Montpellier, ISIS Engineering School of Castres, Glyndwr University of Wales, Hochschule Ulm, and the Department of Computer Science of the University of Cyprus) and 3 medical schools (Faculty of Nursing and Physiotherapy of the Balearic Islands, Medical School of Cyprus, Sant Joan de Déu School of Nursing - Barcelona), a regional centre of technological development and entrepreneurship promotion (Bit Foundation of Mallorca), and a European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation (EGTC Euroregion Pyrenees-Mediterranean). The consortium represented different European health management systems, which was an asset to form professionals aware of the European diversity in this area and prepared to adapt themselves to different environments and to find jobs outside their own country.The eHealth Eurocampus implemented new and innovative teaching methods that were previously tested through three Summer Schools and are now available to be used on different master courses. They cover all the main areas of eHealth: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in eHealth, IT for a Longer Independent Life, eHealth Applications and Tools, Robotics for Healthcare, and Graphics and Medical Imaging.The project direct beneficiaries were IT and health students and teachers, who have received special training, as well as patients in general, in particular elderly people and people with physical and cognitive disabilities, who will benefit from the outcomes of the research conducted within the consortium. The results and dissemination activities were designed to ensure that the eHealth Eurocampus has an impact on both participating and outside organisations. All the results are openly accessible through a specific website, which will make it easy for other universities to exploit the methods and materials developed within the project: http://ehealtheurocampus.eu/ Version en français en annexe: eHEC_SUMMARY.docx

The HiCure project seeks to build capacities to develop an integrated curricula in Health Informatics as pathways within the undergraduate degrees of the faculties of Health and Information Technology, using a student-centred adaptive learning approach based on the bologna processes. It aims to develop two pathways, integrated within the current curricula, to bring continuity and achieve harmony across the programmes. The project will develop 12 courses in total. Each pathway will include eight courses, four of these courses will be common across the two pathways, while four of each of the eight courses will be unique to each pathway. These two pathways will be deployed at the four participating partner universities, two in Palestine (P1: BZU, P3:HU) and two in Jordan (P4:JUST, P5:HaU). The uniqueness of this approach, that to meet the multidisciplinary needs of the two domains, it will develop an innovative user-centred adaptive learning to create an integrated curricula and enable the four universities to integrate the new developed courses within their degrees addressing variations, yet meeting their own specified key learning outcomes. The importance of Health Informatics to be part of the undergraduate training as integral part of their educational skills, is critical to advance the health domain towards evidence-based practices, in the region, which is currently almost non-existent. These skills are essential to solidify the deeper understanding of the value and importance of health informatics not only to their speciality, but also their profession, work and practice. They will promote the uptake and implementation of health information systems to become essential part of their profession as enabling mechanisms to improve the quality of health. Thus one key objective of HiCure is to develop capacity of members of faculty in Health Informatics and create undergraduate pathways to ensure sustainability and lasting impact.