We are pleased to announce two dissemination events for the ECHOES project in Cyprus on Thursday 8th May 2025. The meetings allow participants to gain an insight into the project, explore the results from our gap analysis into healthcare expertise across Europe and be one of the first people to sign up and test our platform. The first meeting will happen in the morning in Larnaca while the afternoon event will take place in the capital, Nicosia. Both events will give you a fantastic opportunity to network with colleagues in Cyprus and internationally while also providing a complementary networking lunch (Larnaca) or dinner (Nicosia) to enable further informal discussion. We hope to see you at one of these events in May!
Thursday 8th May 2025
09:30 - 13:30
Best Western Larco Hotel Larnaca
Agenda
| Time | Item | Presenter |
| 09:30 | Welcome Coffee & Introduction | All |
| 09:45 | Project Overview | UoM |
| 10:00 | Research Findings | RCSI |
| 10:45 | Platform Demonstration | PMV |
| 12:30 | Networking Lunch | All |
| 13:30 | End |
Venue
Register For FreeThursday 8th May 2025
15:30 - 19:30
European University Cyprus
Agenda
| Time | Item | Presenter |
| 15:30 | Welcome Coffee & Introduction | All |
| 15:45 | Project Overview | UoM |
| 16:00 | Research Findings | RCSI |
| 16:45 | Platform Demonstration | PMV |
| 18:30 | Networking Reception | All |
| 19:30 | End |
Venue
Register For FreeECHOES - ExChange Of ExpertiSe in healthcare professionals’ education
Why
The project aims to develop a digital platform that facilitates the exchange of expertise between healthcare universities, increasing access for students across Europe (and worldwide) to expertise that is currently unequally distributed. Additionally, the project seeks to upskill educators in digital skills for virtual exchanges, thereby enabling collaborations without the need for physical mobility and reducing the financial and environmental impact of teaching and learning activities. These exchanges will also help develop intercultural competencies among staff and learners and contribute to the European Union’s Internet of Things policy, demonstrating how IT can be further utilised in medical education.
What
The main outcome of this project is an increased exchange of expertise between universities through a digital platform that provides advanced expertise to more graduates across Europe (and worldwide), increasing the capacity of healthcare professionals and instilling a mindset of constant upskilling necessary to positively disrupt the status quo. In tangible terms, the project aims to have 250 experts and healthcare educators registered and actively using the platform, 500 participants training on the platform; publication of the research results (2 articles in Open Access) following the identification of the platform’s required features; 6 online actions developing the skills of experts to use the platform and undergo virtual exchanges; and events to disseminate the platform. Lastly, and most importantly, one functioning and user-friendly matchmaking and networking platform to link educators from across Europe.
How
The development of this digital platform will promote exchanges of expertise (WP3), based on prior research into stakeholders’ needs for the platform and recent advances in online training configurations (WP2). This will be followed by developing staff skills to perform virtual exchanges (capacity building, WP4) and a dissemination campaign targeting the European medical education market as well as a global audience (WP5). The main activities include project management; a research phase to identify the platform’s requirements; development and testing of the digital platform; webinars on virtual mobility and the platform; a congress to promote the platform; and online dissemination efforts. The beneficiaries include healthcare students (around 200k graduates per year in medicine, nursing, and midwifery in the EU alone), professionals (over 7 million healthcare professionals in Europe), educators, and academic institutions (Eurostat data).
When
December 2023 to November 2026.
Project Website: https://echoesplatform.eu/about-us