Portugal, Brazil and France are going to work in the first parceria Cátedra with the Chancellor from UNESCO in the field of education for health and good life, “desevolver and test novas abordagens in this area. The aim is “to prepare experts and institutions to guide us with uncertainty, with complexity and with systemic risk”, characteristics of the Saúde sector, but in a more inclusive and transformative form, “combining scientific knowledge with a methodology of foresight, construction of scenarios and citizen participation”, as explained in DN.
The agreement, under the theme “The future of education for health and well-being”, was formalized in Paris on January 26 and will be announced on the fifth day, January 29, in Lisbon. And there are three public institutions that “a corps with a strong scholarly vocation and a commitment to community service”— NOVA Faculty of Medicine (Portugal), Fundação Oswald Cruz (Brazil) AND Université Paris-Est Créteil (França), refers to a note announcing a new UNESCO project.
Accordingly, the third institutions in the mission “mobilize international leaders, strengthen synergies with other departments and initiatives of the UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs program and develop joint investigative actions, including capacity and dissemination, with the potential to scale and replicate in different geographical areas”, which the director of the NOVA Medical School said: “We are very excited to integrate such a challenging project and put all our experience and knowledge at the service of this initiative, to actively contribute to innovation in health education and to construct solutions with a real impact on us Comunidades”.
For Pedro Póva, “the formalization of this Presidency with UNESCO represents a decisive step to strengthen our commitment to more inclusive development societies”, considering also that “education and research, which is lacking in innovative international cooperation and oriented towards sustainable development, is the engine of the transformation of health and good life”.
The “Futures of Education for Health and Wellbeing” Chair will act as an international platform that aims to “strengthen the nexus of education, health, technology and sustainability, promoting literacy about the future and governance that is applied in advance to training, research and work with communities”. In practice, and as explained in the DN, “Our aim is to contribute to fairer and more effective responses to accelerate changes that affect health – from social and environmental determinants of technological transformations, from new vulnerabilities to loss of trust and social coesão – with a special focus on equine and em solutions co-desenhadas com los territorios”.
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