Grodno State
КА2 – Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices
CAPACITY BUILDING IN HIGHER EDUCATION
ERASMUS+ КА2
«SETTING PEER REVIEW INSTRUMENTS AND GOALS FOR MEDICAL (HEALTH) EDUCATION» / SPRING
Project reference number 609528-EPP-1-2019-1-GE-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP
Realization: 2020-2023
List of partner institutions
Applicant institution:
BAU International University Batumi LTD (Batumi, Georgia)
Project coordinator – Professor Levan Metreveli, MD, PhD, MPH, Professor of Public Health, Department of Basic Sciences, Faculty of Medicine BAU International University Batumi)
Web-site of the Project: http://www.bau-spring.ge/
Co-beneficiary institutions:
- Tbilisi State Medical University (Tbilisi, Georgia)
- Petre Shotadze Tbilisi Medical Academy LLC (Tbilisi, Georgia)
- Georgian National University SEU (Tbilisi, Georgia)
- Nicolae Testeitanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy of the Republic of Moldova (Chisinau, Moldova)
- Technical University of Moldova (Chisinau, Moldova)
- International Sakharov Environmental Institute of Belarusian State University (Minsk, Belarus)
- Grodno State Medical University (Grodno, Belarus) Project coordinator in the co-beneficiary institution – Surmach Marina Yurievna, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Public Health and Healthcare.
- Asfendiyarov Kazakh National Medical University noncommercial joint stock company (Almaty, Kazakhstan)
- Karaganda State Medical University (Karaganda, Kazakhstan)
- The State Higher Educational Institution Avicenna Tajik State Medical University (Dushanbe, Tajikistan)
- The State Higher Educational Institution Khatlon State Medical University (Danghara, Tajikistan)
- Medical University Sofia (Sofia, Bulgaria)
- Lithuanian University of Health Sciences (Kaunas, Lithuania)
The aim of the project is to enhance the quality of medical education in the involved partner countries and contribute to the onset of changes of the same character in the rest of former Soviet countries.
Through various activities on capacity building, peer reviewing, exchanging experience, creating the foundation for sustainable development and further dissemination of final results of the project, the consortium of 14 higher educational institutions from 7 countries intends to achieve the following results:
- raising awareness on peer review process as an effective instrument for substantiating ongoing improvements in academic and administrative domains of medical schools in targeted partner countries and beyond;
- establishing a multinational peer review board (MPRB);
- establishing and building consistency for a continuous peer-review process of academic programs and processes and administrative policies, procedures and actions across the targeted partner countries and beyond;
- capacity building of faculty members and administrative staff;
- establishing an annual scientific-practical journal of “Peer Review in Medical/Health Education for Eastern Europe and Central Asia (PRIMED-EECA)”;
- enhancing internationalization of HEIs in partner countries;
- disseminating information on project achievements and other final products to participant institutions in program and partner countries.
The project will ensure the sustainability of the achieved results and their application in the very near future through the establishment of the above mentioned journal and independent cross-national “Peer Review Association for Medical/Health Education of Eastern Europe and Central Asia – PRAMED-EECA)” aimed at:
а. providing the group of highly qualified reviewers;
б. assisting medical education institutions of the targeted regions in the effective preparation for international accreditation.
The annual final conference on the Erasmus KA 2 project «Setting peer review instruments and goals for medical (health) education» / SPRING
The head of the Department of Public Health and Health Service M.Yu.Surmach and the head of the Department of Foreign Languages Ya.V.Razvodovskaya took part in the annual final conference on the Erasmus KA 2 project «Setting peer review instruments and goals for medical (health) education» / SPRING, where they presented the Belarusian party of the consortiums of 14 universities from seven countries (Bulgaria, Lithuania, Georgia, Belarus, Moldova, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan), and gave a report "SPRING project at the Grodno State Medical University: lessons learned and shared experience".
Several significant events took place at the conference, representing the key results of the project:
- the inauguration ceremony and the General Assembly of PRAMED-EECA – Peer Review Association for Medical and Health Education of Eastern Europe and Central Asia (the Association website is under construction: https://www.pramed-eeca.eu/ ),
- opening ceremony of the Journal of Medical and Health Sciences Education for Eastern Europe and Central Asia (MEDH-EECA, ISSN 2783-6797, the journal website is under construction https://lsmu.lt/leidiniai/mokslo-zurnalai/medh-eeca / ).
The conference was held at the Medical University of Sofia, Republic of Bulgaria, from October 12 to 14, 2022, and for the first time it gathered all the project participants off-line.
The Association PRAMED-EECA was registered on July 7, 2022 in the Republic of Bulgaria and currently includes 14 universities founding members from seven countries (Georgia, Belarus, Moldova, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan). Belarusian universities are also represented by International Sakharov Environmental Institute of Belarusian State University. Its main goals are: assistance to universities in preparing for international and national accreditation, preparation of new educational programs (including joint ones), informational, analytical and organizational support in conducting scientific research, providing the possibility of publishing in the journal of the association, organizing training courses, seminars, and conferences, as well as the continuation and expansion of cooperation between the partner universities of the consortium.
On October 14, all participants of the final conference on the Erasmus KA 2 SPRING project were invited to take part in the conference of the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region ASPHER "ASPHER 2022 Dean`s and Directors` Retreat (Sofia, Bulgaria)". Welcoming addresses of the President of the Republic of Bulgaria, speeches by the Mayor of Sofia and the Minister of Health of the Republic of Bulgaria, as well as plenary reports were presented: the Director of the Country Health Policy Department of the WHO Regional Office in Europe, the President of the Global Network of Academic Associations of Schools and Public Health Programs, the Executive Director of the World Federation of Public Health Associations health, and others.
