NACNAH – COHEHRE Co-operation (February 2010)

Professor. Kathryn Hegedus, University of Connecticut, USA, applied for a Fulbright grant and participated in an intensive programme between COHEHRE partners.

She wrote a personal impression: "I was privileged to attend the interdisciplinary programme on palliative care and end-of-life care coordinated by
Arteveldehogeschool, Gent, Belgium, a member of COHEHRE. The template for the intensive programme has faculty and students joining together as active participants in the teaching and
learning activities. It was evident that the faculty preparatory meetings had laid the groundwork for a very worthwhile course. They obviously care about one another and that sets the stage for the students to alsocare about one another. This in turn enhanced the teambuilding between disciplines and the opportunity for sharing perspectives between cultures. My participation, as a member of
NACNAH certainly operationalised the memorandum and agreement between NACNAH and COHEHRE."

Cohehre has recently signed a Memorandum of Cooperation with NACNAH (January 2007)

Agreed Tasks

Short Term
Concrete Activity
1) Students to each conference
2) American Colleagues to participate in current projects run by Cohehre (see web-site for details)
3) Plan the pre-conference day at Sarajevo (Liaise with Fons and Sarajevo team)
4) Find funding sources

Tasks for NACNAH
1) Put membership profiles on NACNAH and Cohehre web -
2) Explore attractiveness of BLOG set-up or options - Andy Pulman doing paper

Tasks for Cohehre
1) Put on Cohehre web ECTs paper explaining and describing it! (Eileen Richardson writing paper)
2) Explore attractiveness of BLOG set-up or options - Andy Pulman doing paper

Joint activities:
1) Establish BLOG site (options) purpose sharing members details, interests - finding solutions - partners for projects. Expressing ideas
2) Develop summer schools and joint pre-conference activity
3) Develop joint accredited education programme for faculty and students (Potential link to Cohehre Academy and ECTS)
4) Establish faculty exchange programme or a conversation partner programme
5) Identify potential projects - seek European/American funding. Potential projects of Cultural Awareness/Competence within the curriculum
a) Evidence based learning and practice
b) Managing exchange programmes
c) Developing e-based learning
d) European and American Health policy
e) Globalising the curriculum
6) Establish a joint page for the Cohehre - NACNAH partnership. Which would house news, events, purpose - aims and objectives of the partnership
7) Plan for a joint event at the world conference in Australia
8) Enhancing English language skills for science and health students