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 monitoring of the SPRING project (Setting peer review instruments and goals for medical (health) education
On November 13, 2020, the monitoring of the SPRING project (Setting peer review instruments and goals for medical (health) education took place
The online meeting was attended by:
- Oksana Minich, Head of the National Erasmus + office in Belarus;
- Ekaterina Minyukovich, Erasmus + office administrator;
- Irina Labkova, ERASMUS + office administrator,
- Sergey Maskevich, Director of International Sakharov Environmental Institute of Belarusian State University (ISEI, BSU),
- Levan Metreveli, Project Coordinator, BAU Batumi International University
- Alexey Sysa, Dean of the Faculty of Environmental Medicine / Project Coordinator, International Sakharov Environmental Institute of Belarusian State University (ISEI, BSU),
- Elena Alekseychik, Head of International Relations / Project Manager, International Sakharov Environmental Institute of Belarusian State University (ISEI, BSU),
- Igor Buchenkov, Deputy Director for Academic and Educational Work / Expert Lecturer,
- Natalya Chemeneva, Deputy Chief Accountant / Financial Project Manager, International Sakharov Environmental Institute of Belarusian State University
- Ekaterina Loban, specialist of the International Relations Department / translator of the project, International Sakharov Environmental Institute of Belarusian State University (ISEI, BSU),
- Marina Surmach, Head of the Department of Public Health and Health Care Service / Project Coordinator, Grodno State Medical University,
- Yanina Razvodovskaya, Head of the Department of Foreign Languages / Expert Teacher, Grodno State Medical University,
- Oksana Mozalevich, Head of International Relations Department / Project Manager, Grodno State Medical University.
The audit by the National Erasmus Office in the Republic of Belarus covered the following aspects of the project implementation:
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internal and external measures to ensure project quality,
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preparatory measures for its implementation,
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actual expected results and goals of the project: their feasibility and degree of achievement at the time of monitoring,
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percentage of work completed (compared to the work program),
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the amount of the budget used and the procedure for its use, to what extent all partner universities complied with the project work program and the requirements of grant agreements.
Special attention is paid to the dissemination strategy adopted by the project, including its impact on students and staff, as well as the possible application of the results by other beneficiary universities in the Republic of Belarus.
Long-term results of the project were recognized as promising in terms of demand >These are the publication of the annual scientific and practical journal "Peer Review in medical (health) education for Eastern Europe and Central Asia (ECOMED-EECA)" and the creation of an independent multinational Peer Review Association for medical (health) education of Eastern Europe and Central Asia aimed at providing a group of highly qualified and free experts and at assisting medical education institutions in target regions with effective training and international accreditation.
The coordinator of the project consortium Levan Metreveli emphasized that in order to further ensure the sustainable implementation and quality of project results, special attention will be paid to the selection of online training participants, members of groups for peer review of quality, and the formation of multinational teams. It was noted that the implementation of the project is proceeding successfully, in full, the adaptation of the project work program is carried out only in connection with the unfavorable epidemiological situation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to the preliminary results of monitoring, no violations were revealed, no remarks. The Erasmus National Office proposed several aspects for improvement and noted the high quality of training by partner universities from Belarus (ISEI and GrSMU) reporting materials.
The results of monitoring can be found on the page of the national office of Erasmus in Belarus.
