Capacity development

Our aim is to develop and test training materials to build capacity for the review and evaluation of health technologies and to raise ethical awareness. To achieve this, we have divided our work into three phases: 

• DEVELOPMENT: We will familiarize ourselves with existing training centres, projects, initiatives, networks, etc. that are already addressing - in a broad sense - ethical and regulatory issues of health technologies. Building on this, we will develop training materials and implement training programmes that may be of interest to these actors by filling existing gaps in training needs. 

• INTEGRATION: Based on the participatory methodology developed in the STRATEGIC project, we will ensure that the training materials meet the needs of key stakeholders and collaborate with existing initiatives such as ENERI Classroom or iRECS Alliance. This will allow us to reach key stakeholders in the field of health technology who are concerned with ethical and legal issues. 

• IMPLEMENTATION: To ensure usability of the developed training materials in existing training centres, we will test them at three sites with 10 members of NECs and NRAs. These members will in turn act as trainers to ensure the sustainability of the materials in a train-the-trainer programme.