BACE – Building Academic Capacity in Global Health in the Eastern Europe - Central Asia Region.
We are pleased to inform you that a new project is being launched within the framework of the Erasmus+ program “Development of Academic Potential in Global Health in the Eastern Europe - Central Asia Region”.
In this regard, on January 15, 2021, an online launch meeting was held on this project. The meeting was attended by representatives of foreign universities in Norway, Germany, Ukraine, Georgia. Kazakhstani and European partners discussed the project objectives related to modern challenges in the field of global health, new perspectives for teachers and students in the specialty of public health.
The overarching objective of the project is to enable the three countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia – Georgia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine – to build the capacity of their country’s higher education system to integrate into global health and to facilitate the incorporation of research results into their academic programs.
The objective will be achieved through the development of technical knowledge among partner universities on priority topics and methods of global health research, building the capacity of teaching staff in pedagogical and methodological approaches to the development and implementation of new curricula, joint development of new courses on global health, as well as through the formation and strengthening of cooperation between higher education institutions and organizations of the Partner Countries.
The coordinator of this project is the Institute for Global Health, University of Heidelberg (Germany). Astana Medical University has a long-standing partnership with this institute, joint trainings on research in health care have been held as part of the development of the WHO Regional Training Center for the European Region both in Kazakhstan on the basis of the AMU and in the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region since 2015.
The national coordinator of the BACE project in Kazakhstan is the professor of the Chair of our university Sarymsakova B.E., who initiated the inclusion of Kazakhstan in this project with the full support of the Chairman of Board - Rector prof. Dainius Pavalkis.
During the opening meeting, the Director of Educational Programs of the IGC of the University of Heidelberg, prof. Olaf Horstic expressed special gratitude to the AMU for cooperation and support for this project, where Kazakhstan will be the flagship in promoting academic programs in the field of public health in Central Asia.
