Education Newsletter 4: The institut Pasteur, a leader for global teaching and training

Let’s go global! With presence in 26 countries and 5 continents, the Institut Pasteur is a global player in the field of research, but also in the field of education. The recent symposium held by the Institut Pasteur International Network (story p.4) demonstrated the importance of education in the network, with a session dedicated to global health education and new training initiatives conceived during the symposium. The Institut Pasteur also develops new training initiatives, such as “Customized online and onsite training” (COLT), which improves the control and surveillance of infectious diseases in resource-limited countries. (story p.2).

The Institut Pasteur is global through its various partnerships with European and international partners: participation in the European Programme for Public Health Microbiology Training (EUPHEM), (story p.5) partnerships through Erasmus+ to welcome students from Semmelweis University (Hungary) or the University of Coimbra to the Institut Pasteur. The Institut Pasteur would like to extend its presence in Africa through the future Pan-African Coalition for Training (PACT). PACT aims to bring together national and international academic institutions, funding agencies and the private sector to cooperatively provide a framework for training the next generation of African researchers and public health leaders. Finally, the Institut Pasteur is going global through the development of MOOCs available all over the world; the large proportion of learners from outside France (almost 3Ž4) for our last MOOC dedicated to Vaccinology, (story p.11). proves that education at the Institut Pasteur has long ceased to be francocentric.

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