Hurray! A total of 73 students graduated the Postgraduate Training Program on Organ Donation and Transplantation, developed and implemented for the first time in history within EMPODaT. They were awarded certifications both from EMPODaT consortium and the ENPI universities. The program was evaluated with 4,25 on a scale from 1 (poor) to 5 (excellent), whereas […]

On March 4th – 7th, 2016, the Final Meeting of the European-Mediterranean Postgraduate Program on Organ Donation and Transplantation (EMPODaT) was held in Aswan-Luxor, Egypt. A total of 20 professionals from 8 different countries (Spain, Sweden, Morocco, Egypt, Lebanon, UAE, Ethiopia, and Sudan) participated in this final meeting. The objectives of the final meeting were: To review all the […]

Our partners from Cairo University are working on a professional training program in organ donation and transplantation. The program is developed in collaboration with the EMPODaT Consortium and focuses on specialized training and qualification in the fields of organ donation and transplantation. For all of those interested, the program call for applications will be open […]

The European Commission has approved the extension of the project for five more months (until the end of April 2016). So far all the members of EMPODAT have been doing a great job but there is still more work to be done in the months to come. Some of our partners have to complete their […]

All the members of the EMPODaT team are doing an incredible work in disseminating the outcome of the project within the International Scientific Society, thanks to various events they had the chance to participate in. The DTI Foundation, partner in the project, have had the opportunity to take part in different Congresses where it promoted […]

By August, the Online Modules on Transplantation implemented within the Postgraduate Program closed. The percentage of students that passed the course is satisfying since more than 84 % of the participants completed it successfully. The encouraging news is that students, who have failed, will have soon a reexamination opportunity. The University of Cairo organized its […]

After our great experience in Egypt and Morocco in June 2015, we had the great pleasure to assist to the last International Assessment Seminar that took place in Lebanon. From the 6th to the 10th of July 2015, as part of the EMPODaT project, University of Balamand and the Lebanese American University (LAU) hosted this […]

From the 8th to the 11th of June 2015, two of the three partner countries of the project EMPODaT, Morocco and Egypt, hold their International Assessment Seminar with great success. In Egypt, the International Seminar took place in the University of Cairo in collaboration with the University of Mansoura. The program was as intense as […]

April just finished and we did not have time to see May passing by! Indeed, we are all very busy with the project this month, since a very important step is approaching: the International Assessment Seminars. They will be held from the 8th to the 11th of June 2015 in both Egypt and Morocco, while […]

At the very first days of this new month, Universities were already on their toes and very active. With now the official opening of the Organ Transplantation Online Course, the mobilization is even higher. Local seminars, traineeships and international seminars keep everyone busy. Morocco is offering a very good example of this involvement. Both the […]