Funding for interdisciplinary teaching format "Creating Prototypes for Global Health"

In the "Creating Prototypes for Global Health" project, students from the M.Sc. in Health Communication are working with students from the M.Sc. in Photonics at Friedrich Schiller University Jena to develop user-centred prototypes and target group-oriented communication measures for real challenges in the Global South in two consecutive courses.

Specific "challenges" come from the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM), for example, the development of cost-effective diagnostic systems for infectious diseases or technical solutions for water quality monitoring. In the second phase of the project, the best prototypes will be tested and further developed on-site with users.

The teaching format combines and strengthens problem-based learning, research orientation, methodological expertise, and practical relevance - and for the first time consistently integrates implementation research into academic education in the field of global health.