[Collaboration in the field of public health in South Eastern Europe].
BACKGROUND
Southeastern Europe faces shortage of interest in modern program of public health education and research, and in mutual cooperation and cooperation with countries of European Union. In 2000, Stability Pact for Southeastern Europe has initiated a project: "Academic Programmes for Training and Research in Public Health in South Eastern Europe". The project named "Agreement on Collaboration of the Public Health Consortium for South Eastern Europe (PH-SEE) provides many opportunities to advance the cooperation and student exchange during post graduate studies.
Academic programs include education of how to use Internet material in regard to public health from relevant areas and select skilled coordinatiors. 10 appropriate curricula have been developed with many models and most can be expanded.
This document has the objective of establishing a formal agreement between the members of the Network enabling cooperation and student exchange programs during postgraduate studies. It supports the mobility of postgraduate students in their scientific or practical work, awards student scholarships or acquiring diploma at foreign universities. Each member of this network will support progress in the frame of mutual research and identify program priorities based on unilateral and multilateral cooperation in public health.


CONCLUSIONS
Work on the project "Academic Programmes for Training and Research in Public Health in South Eastern Europe" has to be considered continual, including some colleagues who have interest in preventive medicine and in other areas. Agreement on Collaboration offers younger generations an opportunity for scientific training. According to recently signed Bologna Declaration, we are free to create a school of public health, and it becomes also our obligation.
Kristoforović-Ilić
Miroslava
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Institut za zastitu zdravlja, Novi Sad. kristof@eunet.yu
D005061:Europe, Eastern; D007391:International Cooperation; D011634:Public Health / Q000193:education*; D012106:Research; D017524:Slovenia; D015022:Yugoslavia