A new European vocational training and cooperation project will start after the summer thanks to an application prepared and submitted to the EU by Hospitality Europe, the Hospitaller Order's representative office in Brussels. 

The new project is entitled “Training Educational Course on innovative HEALTHcare technologies”, or TECH-HEALTH for short, and will offer the Order's doctors and professionals an opportunity for transnational exchange and training on the application of digital technologies to support innovation in the healthcare system and treatment. One particular area of debate for participants will be the production using the latest technologies of orthopaedic, dental, maxillo-facial or vascular prostheses, as well as anatomical replicas and three-dimensional models of organs or body lesions for pre-operative evaluation or use for teaching purposes.

The 'Bonifraterskie Centrum Medyczne' hospital group (which manages all the Order's hospitals and clinics in Poland), the St John of God Hospital in León and the St John of God Foundation in Madrid (Spain), and the St John of God Hospital in Sankt Veit an der Glan (Austria) will all be involved in the project. For all the partners this is their first experience of participating in an EU project, but they can count with the support and technical assistance of the Hospitality Europe office (Belgium), which is also a project partner.

The project will start in autumn and run until the first half of 2026. Three transnational meetings are planned in Spain, Poland and Austria, followed by the creation of a digital training portal through which the Order's hospitals and institutes in the other EU countries can also participate online.

Further information and updates on the TECH-HEALTH project will be published on the web site www.hospitality-europe.eu

TECH-HEALTH is a project funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them