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Project
overview
The world's
population is ageing at a rapid pace. An increasing number of
specialists in gerontology will be required in order to respond to the
needs arising from this unprecedented demographic change. The
participating universities specialising in studies in gerontology need
to work together to develop a new strategy that will help to instruct
and train new professionals in gerontology throughout the world.
This project
has been designed to develop a new common teaching curriculum that will
comply with the system of credits in both the United States and the
European Union. This new curriculum is to include a comparative view of
socio-health services on an international basis, as well as specific
teaching materials developed by the teaching staff involved. Each one
of the consortium's member universities is to include the new
curriculum in its offer of educational programmes and courses. The new
curriculum is to be accessible for distance learning.
The
institutions involved in the project plan to further the trans-Atlantic
deployment of gerontology students. Sojourns averaging six months will
enable students to perfect the language of the host country,
familiarise themselves with different approaches to gerontology and
acquire professional experience endorsed by placements in gerontology
centres in each country.
The assessment
of the project will comply with the standards and guidelines of AGHE
(Association for Gerontology in Higher Education). The IAGG
(International Association of Gerontology and Geriatric) supports the
sustainability and dissemination of the project's activities and
results. This project opens a new avenue of educational cooperation
between the European Union and the United States in an emerging
socio-economic issue of considerable significance.
Exchange
of students and lecturers between EU-USA and duration of stay abroad
Three students
from each university during the second year and four during the third
year will spend a four-month period on a trans-Atlantic gerontology
programme (a total of 21 in Europe and 21 in the USA).
There will also
be an exchange involving 6 European lecturers and 6 US lecturers for a
minimum period of two weeks.
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