At the beginning of 2024, Turiba University together with 5 other cooperation partners started implementing the MISS4Health project.

The objective of MISS4Health project is to improve competences in soft skills for healthcare professionals and students using a modular Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) based on micro-credentials at the EU level that certifies these competences. A year and a half ago, Turiba University concluded a project on soft skills called DSICOM. Within this project, together with 5 partner universities, we developed various learning materials and a mobile application that helps train and develop your soft skills - the ability to work in a team, resolve conflicts, plan your time, operate in an multicultural environment. Turibas experts will now transfer all this experience within the framework of this project to partners who want to develop these soft skills for future professionals in the health sector. This project will be very important for Turiba University, because from the beginning of 2024, the direction of health care studies will be opened at the university.

Within the framework of the project, soft skills are planned to be improved with the help of an online course (MOOC). It is planned to develop a course that will be offered to health sector students to obtain micro-credentials. The concept of micro-credentials first emerged around 2013 – often in the context of digital badges – and then became synonymous with certificates for completing massive open online courses (MOOCs).

The MISS4Health project envisages four blocks of activities - curriculum development, content creation, micro-credentials creation and implementation of interactive learning resources.

Project partners:

UHK - University of Hradec Králové (Czech Republic) (lead partner)
CCMIJU - Centro de Cirugía de Mínima Invasión Jesús Usón (Spain)
CUNI - Charles University (Czech Republic)
VMU - Vytautas the Great University (Lithuania)
TU –Turiba University (Latvia)
UNIRI - University of Rijeka (Croatia)
VIRAL Studios (Spain)

Project period: November 2023 - April 2026.

Project webpage: https://miss4health.eu/

The project is financed by the European Union program ERASMUS+, project number: 2023-1-CZ01-KA220-HED-000159335