Dipartimento Unibo coinvolto: Dipartimento di Medicina Specialistica e Diagnostica Sperimentale (DIMES)
Partner: University of Florida – One Health Centre of Excellence (UF, USA)
Obiettivo:
- One of the main objectives is to strengthen the inter-institutional collaboration and establish a cooperation in the field of One Health, Circular Health and Sustainable Development. In 2019, DIMES has established a Study Centre on One Health, and the collaboration with the One Health Centre of Excellence University of Florida will be aimed at enhancing scientific exchanges between the two Centers to offer a place for meeting and dialogue between Italian and international scholars and scientists. The collaboration will be also aimed at fostering the Romagna Salute One Health initiative through supporting novel multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary projects. Sustainability and One Health are two of the focus Areas of Una Europa and the present proposal will allow the first formal interaction with an international partner in the field of education that will lead to the co-design of the UNIBO Una Europa summer school contribute and the piloting of the first web-based resources aimed at fostering active learning.
- One health vision is the core of a post-pandemic approach to health, but it requires to be incorporated into the language of sustainability. UNIBO has launched a One Health Curriculum within the FRONTIERS1 PhD program in the 37th cycle. The proposed cooperation is thus aimed at enabling students exchanges with new opportunities for the internationalization of the UNIBO the PhD program. An International Summer School will be designed and offered to the students of the FRONTIERS PhD, other One Health related UNIBO PhD programs and to UF Public Health, One Health PhD students. The proposed project will allow the development of an interactive PhD program which will find synergies between health- targeted activities relevant to each one of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs).
- The Departments involved in the project have created elective courses, a winter school, and a doctoral curriculum on One health. Participation in this project will give scholars, researchers, and post-graduate students the opportunity to meet international colleagues, from different disciplines, which will certainly contribute to establishing new synergies and collaborations at international level. An effective empowerment of the UNIBO community in the One Health and Circular Health approaches, to develop novel education and research pathways, will be expected.
Budget: 20.000 €
Perché collaborare con l'università coinvolta nel progetto può essere significativo per Unibo?
The collaboration with the University of Florida, and in particular with the One Health Centre of Excellence, will allow UNIBO to draw on its wide range of educational programs in order to gain the insights needed to improve its impact on health and sustainable development.
Therefore, the collaboration will enrich UNIBO's internationalization of educational offer and will have the potential to enhance its reputation and position in international standings such as the Times Higher Education (THE) Impact ranking.
UNIBO is one of the founder institutions of the initiative UNA-OH of the Una Europa Alliance, a strategic area where to develop innovative education initiatives, inter and transdisciplinary research activities and dissemination actions on major health-related challenges, to enhance wellbeing in a sustainable and healthy environment. UNIBO will chair UNA-OH for 2022-2024, this project thus will boost the Una Europa international strategy trough the support that UF will give to UNIBO in designing its contribute for the 1st One Health Summer School of Una Europa in July-August 2022. This Summer School will also represent an opportunity for the piloting of the first web-based educational resources “Sustainable Development Goals under the One Health lens” that will be designed in collaboration with the UF colleagues.
These resources will also be employed in several other programs launched by “International Study Centre on One Health (One Health)” of the Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine – DIMES, such as the elective course SDOH, offered to UNIBO students from different programs at Bologna and Rimini Campuses and the blended Master's program entitled Sustainable Management of Resources for Local Development: Empowering Higher Education in Africa, that will be run jointly with the partner universities of the IHEA Foundation (Italian Higher Education with Africa) in which the PhD FRONTIERS and other UNIBO lecturers from DIMES, QuVI and other Departments will be leading the Master’s module on OH and the PhD courses.
All these programs finally contribute to the Romagna Salute Initiative having a specific focus on One Health at the Rimini Campus. The project has thus the potential to increase the impact in the internationalization and attractiveness of the above mentioned programs and initiative. The workshop dedicated to researchers and junior teaching staff, involved in different health programs run by UNIBO is expected to boost the OH core competencies of future graduates and their international perspectives in addressing upcoming global health challenges. This will have the potential to improve UNIBO graduates’ national and international placement. The introduction of OH and CH perspective in research should give young UNIBO researchers a competitive advantage in their ability to implement multi and transdisciplinary research, increasing their impact in the scientific production and knowledge transfer for the benefit of society over the national borders.
The realization of the summer school for PhD students, planned for the summer 2023, will improve the internationalization of the FRONTIERS PhD, in which DIMES and other departments involved in this project, participate. The collaboration with UF will also allow to study models of collaboration, within the respective OH related PhD programs, leading to possible joint students’ supervision. Given the wide participation of many UNIBO departments in the Frontiers PhD program, an increase in the UNIBO-UF joint applications for competitive grants and joint research publications will be expected in the medium term. Finally, the follow up workshop, dedicated to the students at the School of Specialization of Hygiene and Public Health, has the potential to boost the national and international impacts of future Public Health leaders graduated at UNIBO to work effectively in various agencies, ranging from local and state agencies to international organizations.
Principali risultati raggiunti/attesi
The project foresees the realization of several joint initiatives for doctoral students, postgraduates, and researchers in the field of One Health, Circular Health and Sustainable Development:
- Design Innovative teaching resources on sustainable development and health. The project will give UNIBO the opportunity to design together with UF colleagues, web-based innovative teaching resources in a “TED Talk format”. The first 3 episodes will be expected to be ready for piloting during the 1st One Health Summer school of Una Europa (25 July-5 August 2022, Edinburgh). These resources will be also run in the UNIBO Sustainable Development and One Health transversal skills course (SDOH, Bologna and Rimini Chapter), the module on One Health of the 1st level Specializing Master Sustainable Management of Natural Resources and Cultural Heritage: Empowering Higher Education in Africa of the IHEA Foundation and may be potentially shared with the “SDG Academy” and “One Health Commission” international initiatives
- “From One Health to Circular Health challenging dogmas in education and research” workshop. This will be offered to UNIBO researchers and junior teaching staff in the different health programs: medicine, veterinary medicine, pharmacy and health professions, among all, to introduce them the One Health and Circular Health concepts and core competencies toward future graduates as valuable assets in the health workforce in global health problem solving. A particular emphasis on how to link SDGs and health in research will be given, with a specific focus on Gender equality and health, to link the role of UNIBO in the coordination of the SDG 5 Cluster in the IAU Higher Education and Research for Sustainable Development (HESD) initiative.
- “Co-advancing Health of humans, animals, plants and environment for sustainable development” noncredit bearing blended Summer School. The learning outcomes for graduate students will be the followings:
- to describe and compare One Health and Circular Health approaches to addressing global challenges;
- to understand the Sustainable Development Goals and health strategy as “zipper concepts”;
- to inspire students through innovative experiential learning;
- to work effectively in a multidisciplinary team;
- to communicate concepts of One Health/Circular Health to non-specialist audiences;
- to develop employability skills and an awareness of career opportunities in the One Health sector. - “Circular Health approach for future Public Health leaders” workshop for postgraduate students of the school of specialization in hygiene and public health: the workshop will be a follow up of the 1st Bertinoro Winter School on One Health in October 2021. It will aim at broadening the skill of future health professionals in accelerating progress toward achieving SDGs, through the development of coherent health policies and sustainable, culturally relevant, and economically feasible community programs and interventions.