HEALINT-news: the 3rd partner meeting in SAMK

SAMK hosted the third transnational partner meeting and workshop of HEALINT project on 9th and 10th of April 2019.

People from the Healint meeting pose for the camera in the lobby of SAMK's Pori campus.

The Erasmus+-funded HEALINT-project (2017-2020) lead by Nottingham University UK is promoting international training by developing management tools that support higher education and healthcare institutions to offer and direct high-quality cross-border apprenticeships which can serve as a basis for the development of formal international standards and guidelines. The mission is to facilitate the international mobility of trainees and the vision is to increase the supply and quality of international placements offered by health care organizations throughout Europe.

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