EDEN was invited to contribute to ChildCA project as Associate Partner.

ChildCA is a CBHE (Capacity Building in Higher Education) project.

Main objective

CHILDCA main aim is to improve children’s care in Central Asia (CA) Countries through a modern and innovative postgraduate training of the specialists devoted to their care

Specific objectives

• To design an integrated curriculum for the postgraduate training of medical professionals in Pediatrics, Pediatric Surgery and Child Neuropsychiatry
• To improve the skills and competences of teaching staff in the partner HEIs towards the achievement of EU and international standards
• To introduce ICT technologies to implement an effective virtual interaction among partner HEIs

The consortium is currently composed of 11 partner Universities as full partners:

• University of Pavia, Italy, as coordinator
• University of Ulm, Germany
• Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland
• National Medical University SD Asfendiyarov, Kazakhstan
• Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Kazakhstan
• Kazakh Medical University on Continuing Education, Kazakhstan
• Tashkent Pediatric Medical Institute, Uzbekistan
• Bukhara State Medical Institute, Uzbekistan
• Avicenna Tajik State Medical University, Tajikistan
• Institute of postgraduate education in health sphere of Republic of Tajikistan
• Khatlon State Medical University, Tajikistan

And – in addition to EDEN – 6 associate partners, among Ministries and Medical Institutes:

• Kazakhstan Ministry of Education and Science
• Kazakhstan Ministry of Public Health
• Ministry for Higher Education and Secondary Specialized Education of the Republic of Uzbekistan
• Ministry of Health of the Republic of Uzbekistan
• Republican Specialized Scientific Medical Centre of Paediatrics
• Tashkent Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education