Meet our teams

Rationale Behind Our Alliance

This Alliance has brought together leading institutions in the field to pool their knowledge and know-how with the aim of developing and making available to European high education institutions a set of innovative tools to improve the quality of medical training offered, with the consequent improvement of the care service provided to future patients. The objective of this Alliance is the modernization of the European training system at medical and surgical training, making available to mentors, students and residents alike a set of innovative pedagogical and training tools. This will contribute to the EU's objective of fostering a shared economic vision to create a strong, competitive and innovative Europe.

Nine partners across six European countries will work together to make MIREIA Project happen.

This Alliance will enable the creation of a European knowledge-sharing framework for the training and education of future medical professionals, thus promoting the efficient use of resources. Before the release of the project results, in order to meet the European training needs in the field of medicine and surgery, cooperation at European level is necessary so that all the tools proposed in this project can be validated by potential users (medical students and residents) of different educational institutions in their member countries.

Consortium Partners

CCMIJU

With more than 20 years of experience in surgical training and research, the CCMIJU will play an important role on all educational aspects of the project. CCMIJU will be responsible of the management of the project (WP1), they will coordinate the project's validation (WP7), and actively participate in the implementation of the model and content generation tools (WP4 and WP5) and creation of the learning content (WP6).

UPM

UPM has a consolidated experience in technology enhancement learning (TEL) for healthcare education and has been in charge of the scientific coordination in projects such as SINERGIA and MISSIM (VR simulator for minimally invasive surgery/MIS training) or MISTELA and EASIER. As such, it will take the role of Scientific Coordinator. With this background, UPM will be responsible of the functional requirements of the repository and generation tools (WP4) and will have an important role in the knowledge elicitation process, development of the solution (integrating MIS-SIM simulator) and data analysis.

eCapture3D

This company specializes in the development of 3D digitization and 3D modelling technologies and has experience in introducing new 3D products to the market. In the project, this institution will work on the development of semi-automatic modelling tools for training purposes in medicine and surgery and will be responsible for leading the WP9 of exploitation

SINTEF

SINTEF is Scandinavia's largest independent research organisation dedicated to creating innovative technological solutions that are brought into practical use. SINTEF will mainly work on the development of pedagogical applications through immersive technology (WP5) and will coordinate the WP6 of learning content creation.

TUDELFT

One of the most important European research groups in TEL applied to medicine and surgery. TUDELFT will be in charge of coordinating the pedagogical needs and guidelines for using the training tools provided in MIREIA (WP3), as well as the procedures to ensure quality in the development of the project (WP2).

MEDIS

As a surgical partner with direct access to a wide network of surgeons across Europe, MEDIS will lead the project dissemination tasks (WP8) and actively participate in the development of learning content (WP6) and the validation of project results (WP7).

OUS

The Intervention Centre at Oslo University Hospital focuses much of its research on the development and use of new technologies for surgical support. During the project, this institution will focus on the development of training applications based on XR technologies (WP5) and on providing virtual pedagogical models for medical and surgical training (WP6). They will also participate actively in the validation of project results (WP7).

Avaca Technologies

Avaca Technologies presents extensive knowledge of web platforms, large data implementations, and data engineering and storage systems. During the project they will be mainly responsible for the implementation and management of the repository for the contents and the integration of the developed tools (WP5).

St. Olavs hospital

St. Olavs hospital is the University Hospital for Mid-Norway and integrated with NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim). It participates in the project as an affiliated entity of SINTEF and will participate actively in the creation of learning content (WP6) and in the validation of project results (WP7).