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Objectives

To help trainees to analyse and understand the emerging points of convergence within the management and control of health systems and institutions at the European level.
To help trainees realise how context can impact on health care policy, implementation and management practice.
To situate health care and management practice in the wider context of the new European health care paradigm thus enabling the participants to have a better understanding of current issues and future developments of their functions and roles as health care professionals.
To favour the development of reflective professionals capable of introducing change or responding to new challenges in a sensitive but effective way.
To encourage the acquisition or the development of methodological tools and procedures for solving problems and hence improve the students’ aptitude for analysing and tackling complexity inherent in health care situations.
To share and pool experience and knowledge between fellow Europeans involved in policy making, implementation and evaluation in the health sector.
To favour the development of cultural competency and interpersonal skills necessary for working effectively in multi-disciplinary or multi-cultural groups or settings.
To contribute to the professional development of the participants through recognised validation by participant institutions of work accomplished during the training period.
To have the in-depth and enriching experience of living abroad within a trans- cultural and inter-professional training context.

Key concepts

Inter-culturality

EUROPHAMILI generates a mixing of cultures and the participants go through learning, professional and personal situations together. The training course takes place every year in a different country and this enhances the intercultural vocation of the programme.

The course includes a module entitled “interculturality and health” which raises participants’ awareness of how culture can influence how health is considered and managed. The module combines distance work, and workshops with a written report about a particular topic to be submitted at the end of the course.

Transnationality

This comes through at different levels and especially through the students themselves. The vocation of EUROPHAMILI is to be open to participants from across the whole of Europe. Throughout the three months of the course they have to live and work together on a number of challenging issues and in a foreign environment. But transnationality also concerns the trainers since each of the Teaching Units is co-delivered by a team comprising of at least three different nationalities. In addition, transnationality is present in the make-up of the final jury and the Steering Committee, responsible for programme strategy and its smooth running.

Inter-professionality

The course is open to post-graduate university students holding a degree relevant to working in the field of health care but also to health service professionals: e.g. hospital managers, health care service administrators, public health physicians, medical and paramedical professionals interested in management, nurse managers