"Below presented project – Simulation in Undergraduate MEDical Education for Improvement of SAFEty and Quality of Patient Care (SAFEMED+) serves to tackle important issues, related to undergraduate medical education in Georgia, Armenia and Ukraine, which takes roots back from collapse of Soviet Union and crush of soviet educational system. Despite progressive steps, taken by partner countries towards adopting wester values and implementing up-to-date trends within educational systems as well, undergraduate medical education and practical training of prospective medical professionals particularly, yet remains to be a weak link on the regional level. Taking into consideration national and regional priorities, as well as common needs, was born an idea to develop a project, which would address existing common challenges, yet provide bespoke solutions for given concerns of participating institutions. The project SAFEMED+ was first introduced during KA-2 CBHE call 2016-2017, under name SAFEMED and with rather different formation of consortia, which was shortlisted and placed among reserve projects with best positive feedbacks and valuable recommendations for further improvement. Addition of ""+"" in acronym indicates addition of simulations to the essential body of the project, implying development of all necessary types of simulations, which may be used on the undergraduate stage of medical education, including standardized patients, mannequin-equipped clinical skills laboratory, clinical scenarios, OSCE examinations etc; in order to create a continuum of clinical competences across the curriculum, starting from the first year of studies in Competency Based Medical Education based Curriculum.The enhancement of patient care safety and quality by promoting simulated learning of Clinical Skills implemented in Competency Based Medical Education based Curriculum in Undergraduate Students is the primary impact of the SAFEMED+."

The REHAB project aims to strengthen bilateral relations between higher institutions in Ukraine and Europe providing physiotherapy study programs. This project addresses three major goals: (1) building professional capacity of the academic and research staff between and within and between the partner institutions, (2) development of the teaching/learning/assessment resources, and (3) specific educational infrastructure needed to provide the nationally new professional study program in physiotherapy. In addition, development and implementation of the professional Physical Therapists standard-based study programs in Ukraine will help to train European highly professional PT specialists. With expertise from European partners, the foundation of modern rehabilitation system will be founded in a country with major problems with disabling diseases and presence of victims of military intervention. Also, the project will increase competence level of human resources which will raise the potential for high added value product development leading to contributing economical increase.The following specific objectives are:- update and revise the current Bachelor study programs (2018 -2020) by implementing the transitional format (tBPT) based on a content gap analysis (in future professional BPT); - create the Physical Therapy Mastery study program (starting on 2019/2020) offering advanced competence (knowledge, skills and attitudes) in sport physiotherapy (SPT) and adapted physical activity in rehabilitation (APA-R); - increase professional capacity of the academic/professional personell including about 40 qualified PT faculty members for teaching physical therapy (2019 -2020).- create the Educational Infrastructure for Physical Therapy at partner HES - Pilot the PT master study programs based on the new content and innovative teaching approaches (start on 2019/2020) expecting up to 200 graduates by 2022.

Global Health (GH) is a vital discipline, generating knowledge on current and emerging GH issues, promoting international collaborations, and setting a framework for understanding of how countries can collectively respond to GH challenges. However, due to a lack of internal resources and/or limited access to external funding, GH has not been established as a discipline within middle-income countries of Eastern Europe/Central Asia (EECA). This lack of GH capacity poses health risks to these countries’ populations and globally.The project’s over-arching aim is to enable 3 EECA coountries – Georgia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan – to build capacity and integrate GH into academic programmes. This will be achieved through development of technical knowledge in priority GH topics and GH-relevant research methods, capacity building of academic staff in pedagogical and methodological approaches to designing/delivering new curricula, jointly developing GH courses, and the forging/reinforcement of collaborations between HEIs and non-academic organisations in Partner and Programme countries. Curricula for 6 new GH thematic courses and 3 GH research methods courses will be produced in English, Russian, Georgian, Ukrainian and Kazakh. These courses will be integrated into Partner HEIs’ existing masters and PhDs and delivered to 25 – 165 students in year 1 of implementation. In addition, Partner HEIs will be supported to develop and deliver an intensive EECA Regional GH Academy course for staff and public health practitioners. A EECA Regional Alliance for GH will be established to serve as an inter-institutional and inter-sectoral mechanism for collaboration, knowledge exchange, training and research on priority GH issues. The project will develop a strong platform of GH knowledge and expertise in EECA and ensure mechanisms are in place for the discipline to grow. Staff and students will be equipped with knowledge and skills needed to meaningfully enhance international cooperation.