About the Digi-Change
https://digichangeproject.com/
- Project title: Erasmus+ KA2 CBHE Strand 2 Project No. 101233888
“Digital Transformation and Curriculum Development for Healthcare Teams (Digi-CHange)” - Project duration: October 1, 2025 – September 30, 2028
- EU funding programme: Erasmus+ Programme
- Total grant amount (CBHE): €796,467.96
The Digi-CHange project (Grant Agreement No. 101233888, Erasmus+ CBHE, 36 months) brings together eight institutions from Georgia, Ukraine, Latvia, Ireland, and Italy – including VNMU – to digitally transform medical and nursing education. Its core goal is to redesign healthcare curricula by embedding digital health concepts, AI-based simulations, and interprofessional collaboration into both medical and nursing training programmes. The project will establish dedicated Digi-CHange Labs equipped with digital health tools and connected through an international network enabling joint educational activities, virtual mobility, and industry-academia partnerships. A specific work package led by Dublin City University focuses on developing a comprehensive framework and assessment tools to measure students' digital health competencies. The project also runs a broad dissemination and digital health awareness campaign targeting healthcare professionals, students, and policymakers across partner countries. Overall, Digi-CHange aims to produce an updated, piloted, and transferable model of digitally-integrated healthcare education aligned with WHO priorities for the Global Digital Health Strategy 2020–2025.
Coordinator
Petre Shotadze Tbilisi Medical Academy, Georgia
Website: https://tma.edu.ge/
General Manager:
Professor Ekaterina Kldiashvili, Vice-Rector for Research
Email: e.kldiashvili@tma.edu.ge
Project Objectives
The Digi-CHange project aims to digitalize healthcare education programmes (“Medicine” and “Nursing”) and develop a modern concept of medical education through the following objectives:
- Objective 1: Reform curricula by integrating digital health concepts and strengthening the team-based approach in healthcare (“Medicine” and “Nursing”)
- Objective 2: Develop Digi-CHange Labs in higher education institutions, with a focus on beneficiary institutions in Georgia and Ukraine
- Objective 3: Establish a Digi-CHange network to connect and support collaboration between the labs
- Objective 4: Define and integrate AI-based simulation scenarios into healthcare education programmes
- Objective 5: Develop methodologies and tools for assessing digital health competencies
- Objective 6: Increase awareness of digital health
The project focuses on interdisciplinary collaboration between physicians and nurses to ensure effective use of digital technologies for improving patient outcomes and healthcare delivery.
Expected Outcomes of the Digi-CHange Project
- Modernised and digitally transformed curricula in medicine and nursing education
- An innovative interprofessional education model integrating medical and nursing educators with technology and industry experts
- Significantly enhanced digital competencies of future healthcare professionals in digital health, artificial intelligence, simulation technologies, and virtual learning
- Strengthened sustainable collaboration between universities, healthcare institutions, technology providers, and industry
- Improved institutional capacity for digital transformation in healthcare education
- Contribution to building more resilient, equitable, and sustainable healthcare systems aligned with the WHO Global Strategy on Digital Health 2020–2025
Project Partners
- Petre Shotadze Tbilisi Medical Academy (Tbilisi, Georgia) – Coordinator, Ekaterina Kldiashvili
- Ilia State University (Tbilisi, Georgia) – Salome Shedania
- K. Eristavi National Center of Experimental and Clinical Surgery (Tbilisi, Georgia) – Dr. Nikoloz Chaduneli
- I. Horbachevsky Ternopil National Medical University (Ternopil, Ukraine)
- National Pirogov Memorial Medical University, Vinnytsya (Ukraine) – Oleksandr Nikolskyi
- Riga Technical University (Riga, Latvia) – Andrejs Romanovs
- Dublin City University (Dublin, Ireland) – Dr. Daniela Lehwaldt
- INFOR ELEA Academy (Turin, Italy) – Carlo Colomba
Contacts
Project Coordinator at VNMU:
Victoria Rodinkova