Karolinska Institutet (KI)

Karolinska Institutet (KI)

Description

Karolinska Institutet (KI) is one of the world’s leading medical universities. KI accounts for over 40% of the medical academic research conducted in Sweden and offers the country’s broadest range of education in medicine and health sciences. Since 1901 the Nobel Assembly at KI has selected the Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine. KI has 3700 employees (full-time equivalents), nearly two-thirds of whom are female. Some 80% of KI’s income is devoted to research, distributed among some 600 research groups covering all medical fields. KI provides excellent postgraduate training with 2100 PhD students who are active in both basic and clinical research. Research at KI has a strong European dimension. KI participates in about 190 projects including 24 as coordinator as well as 14 European Research Council Grants. KI is also the major Swedish beneficiary of funds from the National Institutes of Health in the U.S. 

The KI’s Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics (LIME) is active in more than 40 national and international research projects in e-learning, medical simulation and medical management. The LIME staff has participated in several international projects dealing with technical and pedagogical aspects of e-learning. In particular LIME staff has already extended experience form the participation in Erasmus+ projects such as WAVES, TAME, MEDCIN; OER in Computational Biomedicine but also from international and national collaborations.

Role

KI’s role will be to lead the WP4 and in particular to drive the evaluation plan, coordinate the evaluation activities for both higher institution and industrial partners and drive the activities of data collection and analysis that are going to synthesize the final evaluation report. KI’s staff has a strong experience that is going to bring into the project since KI has been having a key role in previous Erasmus+ funded projects and in particular in conducting the evaluation activities.