Inspired from Modern Asclepieions ...
An initiative of the School of Medicine of the University of Athens to provide services of Health and Culture to citizens (since 1994)
University of Athens takes the initiative to prepare a proposal to be submitted in the PHEA Health Call (http://ec.europa.eu/phea deadline May 23, 2008). So far institutes from Greece, UK, Italy, Sweden and France have expressed their interest.
Labels: Culture, Environment, Health, Social Interaction, Society
Unfortunately our proposal on Modern Asclepieions to the COST Programme of the Commission of the European Union has been turned down.
Labels: Society
The article of Dimitrios Sotiriou and Ken Boddy, entitled 'Modern Asclepieions: A vision for Health and Culture Services for All' has been published in the Proceedings of the Symposium on Enhancing Healthcare Education, Research & Practice through Technology, which has taken place in Hong Kong SAR, China, between July 9 and 11, 2007.
This is said by Professor Erkki Vauramo in an email sent today to Dimitrios Sotiriou of Greece, triggered by the information that:
The Dutch architect Carel Weeber and the Finnish architectural firm Harris-Kjisik have won the international architectural competition Healthcare 2025, respectively with ‘Big Bang’ en ‘Fair care – care fair’ (
Labels: Society
Participants of the first MAs COST Programme proposal have agreed to submit a new propoal. The daft is ready and it will be submitted early next week.
HealthCom2007 has been proved very successful and extremely well organised. The hospitality of the Taipei people and in particular Professor’s Heng-ShuenChen was exemplary.