UKROTHE - Study Programme Occupational Therapy in Ukraine

Name of the Project: UKROTHE – Study Programme Occupational Therapy in Ukraine

Project number: 609589-EPP-1-2019-1-BE-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP

Duration: 36 months

Project Lifetime: january 2020 – december 2023

Partners:

• VIVES Noord
• VIVES Zuid
• School of Health - Polytechnic Institute of Porto
• Drohobych Ivan Franko State Pedagogical University (DSPU)
• Khmelnytskyi National University
• PRYDNIPROVSK STATE ACADEMY
• Modrychi
• Caritas
• Oradea vzw
• Tapas vzw

Grant amount:

Programme: ERASMUS+ Capacity Building in the field of Higher Education

In this project, 3 Ukraine HEI’s (Higher Education Institutes) will be supported by Belgian and Portuguese HEI’s to implement a curriculum for Occupational Therapists according to the standards of the World Federation of Occupational Therapy. Innovative in this curriculum will be the huge amount of practical training in new equipped classrooms and internships. Therefore, not only the teachers of the HEI will be trained to teach the new curriculum, also staff form hospitals and rehabilitation centers will be actively involved and trained. The working places will have a crucial role as the guides and the coaches of the internship students. Also the government will be closely involved, their support is needed as they have to acknowledge the skills of this new professionals and often rehabilitation centers are public authorized, so the government decides on the profiles of the staff. This project is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. More info: www.ukrothe.eu

Coordination of the project in School of Health (ESS):

            Professor Doutor Joaquim Manuel Ventura Faias