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INTAMT

The International Academy for Management and Technology (INTAMT) is a non-profit association focusing on the creation and implementation of continuing professional development (CPD) programs and further training. The core product is a demand-oriented cross-sectoral combination of know-how and experience in science and education, administrative and technological innovations, public governance and business management. INTAMT was founded in 2005 and has become a well-established company on the international market of educational services and knowledge transfer, implementing the concept “from lifelong education to lifelong learning” into action. As a part of project and event implementation, we work together with international organisations along with numerous public, non-governmental and private organizations in Germany, and other EU countries.

INTAMT scope of activity:

  • Continuing education & training (i.e., seminars, study tours, workshops etc.) focused on exploration and introduction of best practices in education, health, science and technology, economics, public governance and civil society;
  • Fostering networking between experts, companies, educational and research institutions;
  • Consulting services and expert evaluation, market research and data analysis;
  • Development, management and methodological support of international research, educational and implementation projects.

Since its foundation, INTAMT has carried out a wide variety of continuous professional development programs on both higher education, healthcare organisation and medical technology. This has only been possible due to a wide network of collaborating healthcare authorities, hospitals and doctor’s offices including renowned clinical hospitals in Germany, France, Austria and the Netherlands. INTAMT has organized and conducted more than 50 educational programs with the study of international experience in the field of health and medicine.

In the course of the past 17 years INTAMT Academy has organised 700 education programmes in 27 countries around the world (Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Russian Federation, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, UK, USA). More than 7000 participants took part in those events: skilled employees and senior management in the administration on federal, regional and municipal levels; researchers, students and representatives of HEI; experts in early education as well as in school education, vocational training and adult education; skilled employees and senior management of companies, interest groups and professional associations.
Besides activities in the area of continuing professional education, the INTAMT Academy has been engaged as an initiator and consortia coordinator in the implementation of transnational educational, consulting and social projects, including those funded by the EU-Commission, UNICEF, World Bank, German Federal Government etc.

Umeå  University

Umeå University is a traditional European university with five faculties and have long experience in health and physical activity within several national and international projects in collaboration with industrial partners and other institutions. With our expertise on physical activity, gender, innovations, and new ICT technologies we can provide excellent support in transdisciplinary projects. UmU has been developing and implementing projects in healthcare and wellness areas, providing the best technological solutions, aiming to improve healthcare and well-being outcomes. Broad experience in carrying out field tests with end-users, providing clinical perspective, performing clinical trials and observational studies.

Previous experience in National and EU projects.
Umeå University, with a progressive approach to teaching, a dedication to pushing research boundaries and a strong commitment to economic development, is a responsive, dynamic and vibrant centre of learning in northern Sweden. Umeå’s students numbers a total of 33000.

Umeå University is divided into different departments, Life Medicine, a test bed under Northern University Hospital will be the Swedish project management.  Life Medicine works actively R&D in the field of healthy living, behavioural medicine and team aspects both in patient treatment and in education and has a strong desire for more interaction. Life Medicine wants to deepen cooperation opportunities with parties in Europe to achieve long-term added value and to learn together and find common problem solutions
By combining experience and knowledge in public health, healthy living, behavioural medicine, team work, data engineering and analysis, data science, interaction design and clinical testing, Life Medicine has been developing and implementing projects in healthcare institutions, providing the best technological solutions, aiming to improve prevention, healthcare and well-being outcomes.
Life Medicine has several years of working directly with sports associations and wellness companies developing new services, beta testing and trialing services. As part of innovation and development, Life Medicine has built up logistics for processing personal data that comply with EU and national data protection laws and have led seminars of fall pits when dealing with data pertaining to areas such as profiling, automated decision-making and personal health. The key staff of Life Medicine encompasses 15 employees with interdisciplinary backgrounds such as sports physiologists, sport psychologists, nurses, senior lecturers in physical activity and health, project management, pedagogics, economics and international cooperation.
Broad experience in creating physical activity interventions and methods as well as experience in education, online courses, LMS platforms such as Canvas, Moodle, carrying out field tests with end-users, providing clinical perspective, performing clinical randomized controlled trials and observational studies.

P. Stradins Medical College of the University of Latvia

P. Stradins Medical College of the University of Latvia began its work as a medical school in the territory of P. Stradins hospital in 1939. In the academic year 2007/ 2008 the studies were started in Jūrmala and in Rēzekne branch of P. Stradins Medical College of the University of Latvia, where the students were offered opportunity to acquire nurse and doctor’s assistant speciality. The main goal for the branch was – to prepare highly qualified, competent and competitive healthcare professionals for the Latgale region.

College realizes two fields of study – Healthcare and Social Welfare, in which are realized 9 full time 1st level of professional higher education study programs: Nursing (in co-operation with the University of Latvia), Medicine, Aesthetic Cosmetology, Medical Massage, Biomedical Laboratory Technician, Radiology Assistant, Podology, Social Care, Social Rehabilitation.

Study programmes:

  • Nursing (in co-operation with the University of Latvia)
  • Medicine
  • Aesthetic Cosmetology
  • Medical Massage
  • Biomedical Laboratory Technician
  • Radiology Assistant
  • Podology
  • Social Care
  • Social Rehabilitation
College is supported with professionally equipped preclinical study rooms. Technical base is regularly improved. Modern laboratories conform to the requirements of the professional equipment and are close to the daily medical environment. College has received Erasmus Charter for Higher Education (ECHE) and implements study mobility for students and personnel (teaching and staff training) in the framework of ERASMUS+ program.
Successful cooperation is established with the health and social care institutions, universities and businesses, both in Latvia and Europe – Estonia, Lithuania, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Poland, Bulgaria, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Slovenia, Hungary and other countries. Cooperation promotes professional development of the college’s personnel and allows to ensure comprehensive and qualitative practice for college’s students in foreign countries as well as for foreign students in Latvia.
College also implements vocational training courses and after-graduate study programs in order to maintain the qualification of health and social care workers.

University of Teacher Education Weingarten

The predecessor of Weingarten University of Education is the Reutlingen Pedagogical Institute, founded in 1947, an institution specifically geared towards teacher training for primary schools and the beginnings of primary and lower secondary schools.
The matrix structure introduced at the University of Teacher Education Weingarten in 2005 underlines the interdisciplinary orientation in teaching and research. From 2006 onwards, the Weingarten University of Education began to expand its range of academic study programmes for other educational professions in addition to the teacher training programmes. In the meantime (as of October 2015), the Weingarten University of Education offers a wide range of study options with 10 Bachelor’s degree programmes and 10 Master’s degree programmes outside the teaching profession.
The University of Teacher Education Weingarten sees its mission in offering academic study programmes for educational professions. The core competences of the University of Teacher Education are the vocational training and continuing education of teachers as well as the qualification of students for educational and guidance-related occupational fields.

In addition, teaching and learning are the focus of its research, with which it contributes to the national and international discourse on education as a scientific university. The university sees its goals in the innovative and sustainable education of students. In the sense of a learning organisation, the university wants to ensure both the continued existence of the institution at the location and to maintain, use and increase acquired quality and reputation in teaching and research through continuous further development of its structures and processes. It uses quality assurance instruments to achieve its goals.

The Weingarten University of Education sees itself as an educational university with a regional, national and international orientation and focus. Strengthening and expanding intra- and interdisciplinary networks are essential means of continuous development.

UMIT (Private University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology)

UMIT – Private University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology in Hall in Tirol/ Austria has specialised in new vocational fields and research areas and thus responds to the latest challenges in healthcare and technology.
With its focus areas Mechatronics, Medical Technology, Medical and Biomedical Informatics, Psychology, Health Sciences, Nursing Science and Gerontology, supplemented by university training courses, UMIT TIROL offers high-quality academic education and advanced training in the fields that have turned out to be of increasing importance in modern healthcare and technology.
UMIT TIROL provides 20 Bachelor-, Master/Magister- and Doctoral Programs. 250 employees are in charge of 1800 students in four departments – Biomedical Computer Science and Mechatronics; Public Health, Health Services Research and Health Technology Assessment; Nursing Science and Gerontology and Psychology and Sports Medicine.
By combining experience and knowledge in data engineering and analysis, data science, business intelligence, interaction design and clinical testing, UMIT TIROL has been developing and implementing projects, providing the best technological solutions.

The Department of Nursing Science and Gerontology considers nursing and age the responsibility of society, which must be driven forward in an interdisciplinary and holistic manner. A clear orientation towards the requirements of nursing practice and the needs of the people and society characterize the methods and the prioritization of the individual research areas – people in old age, nursing interventions and quality of care, development and testing of nursing assessment instruments, training and professionalization in nursing, and innovative care concepts.

The Institute of Nursing Science (INS) at the Department of Nursing Science and Gerontology, founded in 2005, considers nursing as well as health care and health promotion in need to be scientifically researched and further developed in close cooperation with other disciplines. A clear orientation towards nursing practice and the perspective of people in need of care and their relatives, characterize the Institute’s activities. By training scientifically qualified personnel for the health and care sector, the INS furthermore contribute to ensure that evidence-based nursing science finds a way into nursing practice and “evidence based nursing” becomes the new standard in nursing. The INS has a number of collaborations at the regional and national level with health education and health care institutions (such as the University Clinic State Hospital Innsbruck, county hospitals, nursing care homes, providers of social and care services, etc.). In addition, the INS collaborates closely with a range of international higher education and health care institutions.

Utena University of Applied Science

Utena University of Applied Sciences is a modern, student-oriented, state higher education institution offering higher college studies directed towards practical activity, applied researches and professional activities.
Utena UAS strategic aims are as follows: to train highly qualified specialists, motivated to constantly improve and work under the conditions of global digitalization and innovation growth; to develop applied scientific activities, research and non-formal education services, relevant to the region and the country.

During 2020-2021 a. y. Utena UAS has 174 employees, including 130 lecturers (74 full-time and 56 part-time lecturers) and 78 other employees and the Management (34 of which work educational work). 2020-2021 a. y. 77 foreign students are studying full-time at Utena UAS.  The institution offers 21 study programs, and 9 of them are based on modular study system with Problem- Based Learning approach in the fields of health sciences, business and public administration, law, education, engineering, technologies and informatics. In the study programme of General Practise Nursing we have 244 students. National and international experts accredited study programmes of Utena UAS. Theoretical knowledge and practical skills are transferred to the students by excellent professors, associated professors and professionals-practitioners have acquired deep theoretical and practical experience. Very often, some of the subjects are taught by guest lecturers from the most prestigious European universities. The career-focused studies executed under the demand of the worldwide labour market. Internships are an integral part of education.

An internalization is one of the most strategic priorities of the institution. In the Strategy for the Development of Internationality for 2021-2027 of Utena University of Applied Sciences, the development of the internationality is focused on the improvement of studies, study quality, organisational culture, applied researches, cooperation with enterprises. Over the years, we have built an extensive network of academic partners (80 partner universities from 22 countries). Utena University of Applied Sciences has Erasmus Charter of Higher Education for 2021-2027. Professors and students participate in various international exchange programmes, international projects.
Students work and study in a modern environment with well- equipped computer labs and wireless Internet connection everywhere in the buildings. We have excellent material resources, including the advanced conference and educational halls, the Centre of E-Learning, a library with access to leading e-libraries and databases.
The e-learning centre at Utena UAS has been operating since 2011. Its functions are the digitisation of study information, documents used in the study process and study material and accessibility to college students, lecturers and responsible employees. The institution has a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) Moodle. Teachers create electronic study courses (e-study courses) for their subjects, providing subject requirements, study materials, self-control, student activities, counseling and communication tools. Most of the developed e. study courses are fully adapted for students’ independent and individual study of the subject. Currently, the college VLE Moodle has prepared about 500 courses.