Towards a European And Common Healthcare Union: lesson learned from the COVID pandemic

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The Jean Monnet Module “Towards a European And Common Healthcare Union: lesson learned from the COVID pandemic” (TEACH-EU) is a short teaching programme designed to introduce and mainstream European Union matters in study programs of different specializations at the Medical Institute of Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia. TEACH-EU project aims at equipping students, who are not automatically exposed to European studies, with knowledge of European Union subjects relevant for their academic and professional lives developing an introductory course on the EU and four thematic units focused on EU policies closer to the academic profile of the audience (public health, health policy and risk management in public health). Moreover, the courses that will be delivered in TEACH-EU JM Module are designed to provide not only a basic knowledge of the EU and its functioning, but they will equip students with knowledge of European Union subjects relevant for their academic and professional lives. All courses are elaborated to give to the students a comprehensive understanding of the functioning of the EU in general terms an in specific fields, which are closed to the academic and professional profile of Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia students. The Jean Monnet Module “Towards a European And Common Healthcare Union: lesson learned from the COVID pandemic” is composed of the following courses: 1) History of the European Union and the establishment of a European Health Union; 2) EU institutions and Decision‐making: basics and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the EU governance; 3) European Union Health Law; 4) EU Health policy; 5) European Health Economics & Management.