The ECHOES Project started in 2023 and has successfully built and launched a dedicated digital platform designed to facilitate the exchange of expertise among healthcare universities, research centres, and organisations across Europe and beyond.
Built on insights from comprehensive global research and focus groups, the platform underwent rigorous testing and refinement with key stakeholders to deliver an intuitive experience complete with integrated video conferencing and step-by-step video tutorials. Healthcare, social care, and wellbeing professionals, researchers, and academics can now register their specific areas of expertise to seamlessly collaborate with international peers.
The community is already off to a strong start at www.echoesplatform.eu, with over 370 registered members—including over 200 experts and 170 active users (as of mid-2026). Following successful dissemination events in Cyprus and Malta throughout 2025, we invite you to join us in celebrating these milestones at the upcoming Multiplier Conference in Dublin this October 2026.
Explore the platform, reach out to the UM project team to learn more, and follow ECHOES on LinkedIn, Facebook, and X for ongoing updates.
The partners on this project are the Internationalisation Working Group of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Malta (coordinator), the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), PMF research (Italy), Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK), and the International Network for Health Workforce Education (INHWE). And then we counted with the support of many Associate Partners:
UM Project Team:
Dr Jose Guilherme Couto – Lecturer, Department of Radiography (Project Lead) (https://www.um.edu.mt/profile/josegcouto)
Dr Rachael Agius – Senior Lecturer, Department of Human Communication Sciences and Disorders (https://www.um.edu.mt/profile/rachaelagius)
Dr Marjorie Bonello – Senior Lecturer and Head of Department, Department of Occupational Therapy (https://www.um.edu.mt/profile/marjoriebonello)
Prof Helen Grech – Professor, Department of Human Communication Sciences and Disorders (https://www.um.edu.mt/profile/helengrech)
Dr Petra Jones – Senior Lecturer and Head of Department, Department of Food Sciences and Nutrition (https://www.um.edu.mt/profile/petrajones)
Ms Miroslawa Alfreda Piorkowska – Research Support Officer II, Department of Radiography (https://www.um.edu.mt/profile/miroslawapiorkowska)
The ECHOES project is co-funded by the European Union through the European Union Programmes Agency (EUPA-Malta). It is the recipient of an ERASMUS+ Cooperation Partnership in Higher Education grant (2023-1-MT01-KA220-HED-000156744). The project is organised into work packages covering management, research, ECHOES platform development, online activities, dissemination, quality assurance, and impact measurement.
Disclaimer: Co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Union Programmes Agency (EUPA). Neither the European Union nor EUPA can be held responsible for them.
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