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Uwc Teams Up With European And South African Partners For Large International Project 885

University of the Western CapeRef: https://www.uwc.ac.za/news-and-announcements/news/uwc-teams-up-with-european-and-south-african-partners-for-large-international-project-885

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What this means

The document is a University of the Western Cape (UWC) news announcement about an international partnership project in healthcare and welfare. UWC and five other higher education institutions (3 European universities of applied sciences and 2 South African research universities) received an Erasmus+ Capacity Building grant of more than €800,000 from the European Union. The project was launched with a meeting in South Africa in late 2018 and is stated to run until September 2019, focusing on three programme pillars: Patient Partner Programme, Health and Lifestyle Programme, and Care for the Caregiver Programme. The announcement also names Dr Marie Young (UWC) as the project contact/leader and states the project will be carried out in South Africa over several years.

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Western Cape, City of Cape Town

Reference

https://www.uwc.ac.za/news-and-announcements/news/uwc-teams-up-with-european-and-south-african-partners-for-large-international-project-885

Key Takeaways

  • Organisation: University of the Western Cape (UWC)
  • Project: international partnership in healthcare and welfare
  • Consortium: Caring Society 3.0
  • Partners: UWC, University of Cape Town, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Lahti University of Applied Sciences (Finland), Karel de Grote Hogeschool (Belgium), Avans University of Applied Sciences (Netherlands)
  • UWC representative: Department of Sport, Recreation and Exercise Science
  • Funding: Erasmus+ Capacity Building in Higher Education
  • Grant amount: more than €800,000
  • Funding source: European Union (Erasmus+ Programme)
  • Launch: meeting in South Africa late last year (late 2018)
  • Project duration stated: until September 2019
  • Programme pillars: Patient Partner Programme; Health and Lifestyle Programme; Care for the Caregiver Programme
  • Contact: Dr Marie Young, Head of Department Sport, Recreation and Exercise Science
  • Contact details: +27 21 959 2377; myoung@uwc.ac.za
  • University of the Western Cape (UWC)
  • Caring Society 3.0 consortium
  • Lahti University of Applied Sciences
  • Karel de Grote Hogeschool
  • Avans University of Applied Sciences
  • University of Cape Town
  • Cape Peninsula University of Technology
  • Department of Sport, Recreation and Exercise Science (UWC)
  • European Union
  • Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union
  • Dr Marie Young