"During the last years, rehabilitation activities have become more and more important, since the number of people with disabilities is growing for many reasons (e.g. ageing of the population and increase of chronic diseases). The introduction of leading-edge technologies in the treatment of disabilities is central in order to improve the efficiency of rehabilitation and the access to health-care services. The conjunction between Medicine and Engineering in the field of rehabilitation is the future for new effective methodologies. The objective of the project TechReh (Technology in Rehabilitation) was to build the capacities of Universities and Medical Centres in Uzbekistan in innovative rehabilitation techniques. TechReh focused on 3 main outputs: 1. Developing a Master Programme ""Computer Systems for Medicine"", 2. Modernising a Master Programme in Medical Rehabilitation and 3. Developing short courses for professionals from medical and technical fields.The activities included the establishment of an office with state of the art equipment in each Partner University in Uzbekistan, which should play a crucial role in promoting research and the use of technology in medical rehabilitation."

Aim of the project is to support the modernization, professionalization and internationalization of postgraduate training in the field of children care management in Central Asia (CA) Countries - Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan - in cooperation with HEI from Italy, Germany and Poland willing to share their expertise and experience in the fields of Pediatrics, Pediatric Surgery and Child Neuropsychiatry postgraduate training. It’s a joint project organised as a feasibility study to become, if successful, a structural project for a sustainable and long lasting improvement in the organisation of postgraduate medical training in CA countries, not only in paediatrics but possibly also in other fields of medical care. By-product of the project will be to emphasise the importance of children care in the ongoing process of Health Care Reform in CA countries, thus contributing to reduce the infant mortality, through an updated approach to the modern techniques of neonatal and pediatric care, widely resorting on the tools made available by ICT. Outputs will be new curricula and new training strategies devoted to an integrated, holistic care of the child, harmonised with those adopted in EU countries and aiming to achieve the same results. To offer a solid and sustainable basis on which to ground these results, state-of-the-art ICT teaching and teleconferencing systems will be provided to all partners, with on-the-job training. Project’s preparatory activities of situation analysis and paediatric facilities census will also provide Governmental authorities an invaluable tool, offering a sound basis on which to build any future project of intervention on the health system and manpower devoted to the care of children in CA Countries.Ultimate impact will hopefully be a reduction in infant mortality and a substantial increase in life expectancy at birth for the populations of partner Countries, now living in average some ten years less than EU population.