Learning Symposium

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This course takes place at Manipal Academy of Higher Education in Manipal, India. During the learning Symposium students will participate in 3 main activities:

1. Field orientations. Students from Maastricht University, McMaster University (Canada), Thamassat University (Thailand), Manipal Academy of Higher Education (India), Afhad University for Women (Sudan), University of South- Eastern Norway,  University of Alabama at Birmingham (US), Bangladesh University of Professionals and Niigata University (Japan) will work together in groups of around 12 students on a health related topic, and have to develop a system map on the topic their group is working on. In order to do so, they will have access to different sources of information: 1. literature. 2. visits to several sites related to the topic. 3. conversations/ interviews with stakeholders and experts. Groups have to write a report and results will be presented to other students and faculty at the end of the two weeks period.
2. Weekend conference. In a scientific conference set-up, students have to present their thesis research proposal to their colleague students and experts. Several key note lectures from international guest speakers will be part of the program. To complete the ‘scientific’ simulation of this whole, the organising committee will invite students for a conference dinner, a traditional thali or the ‘banana leave dinner' as it is called in the Manipal learning symposium tradition.
3. Presentations of project proposals of foundations of global health 2 in front of the TRAM jury.

Several cultural excursions are part of the program as well.