Dr. Moriah Ellen (pictured below) of the Department of Health Systems Management at BGU's Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business and Management, along with several European colleagues, has been granted the European Commission's Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Grant for Innovative Training Networks.
This multinational grant, totaling €2 Million, will be divided between nine research institutions forming the Trans [Transition]-Senior EJD (European Joint Doctorate) Network.
Ellen's colleagues hail from Katholieke Universiteit KU Leuven (Belgium); the University of Basel (Switzerland); Cludiana - Landesfachhochschule für Gesundheitsberufe (Italy); Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (Germany); Maastricht University (Netherlands); Jagiellonian University (Poland), and Ferati van Wit-Gele Kruisverenigingen van Vlaa (Belgium).
The Trans-Senior EJD network, formed over four years ago by a team of researchers including Dr. Ellen, is concerned primarily with healthcare transitions that put seniors in harm's way beyond necessity. The number and age of seniors has grown, and continues to grow in Europe and other countries. Dr. Ellen notes, “It's important research that needs to be done, and couldn't be done without this funding. This whole network is to fund next generation i.e. 13 PhD research students who are carrying out the study over 13 different projects."
Ellen's BGU research portion of the €2 Million is € 500,000 over a period three years. The aim of the network's research projects is to overall understand and improve on the continuum of care for elderly – homecare, hospital care, transitioning; how to facilitate and support the process.
The aim of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks ITN) is to train a new generation of creative, entrepreneurial and innovative early-stage researchers, able to face current and future challenges and to convert knowledge and ideas into products and services for economic and social benefit. It supports competitively selected joint research training and/or doctoral program, implemented by partnerships of universities, research institutions, research infrastructures, businesses, SMEs, and other socio-economic actors from different countries across Europe and beyond. The European Commission awards fellowships across scientific disciplines within the framework of Horizon 2020.
