BLENDED INTENSIVE PROGRAMME (BIP)
Building Roles and Interprofessional Communication (BRIC-BIP)
WHAT
This course is about addressing, discussing and creating issues regarding current challenges for those working in the health care sector in different countries. In this course students study together with colleagues from other countries. The programme consists of an intensive five-day face-to-face training programme, preceded by a virtual component.
The language of instruction is English.
Objectives and description
What participants need to bring with them:
- Openness to roles
- Openness to professions
- Cultural openness
- Openness to interprofessional cooperation
- Openness to international cooperation
- B2-level language skills in English as a minimum requirement
Learning Outcomes
- Participants transfer their individual action processes to possible (new) fields of action.
- Participants work within interprofessional teams to create possible role models with corresponding task descriptions and competency descriptions for other health professions.
- Participants describe possible professional fields with a focus on interprofessional work.
- Participants analyse complex care situations that have been brought in from different disciplines/professions.
- Participants develop interprofessional recommendations for individuals and groups.
- Participants consider the basic principles of public health, health promotion, and health literacy in their elaborations.
- Participants create possible clinical pathways for selected clients/patients.
- Participants develop ways to find a common language for case discussions in teams.
- In interprofessional case discussions, participants show understanding and respect for the roles of the other professions.
WHERE
Linz, Austria
ORGANISERS
The Bachelor’s degree programmes Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy and Healthcare and Nursing at the University of Applied Sciences for Health Professions Upper Austria and Deggendorf Institute of Technology,
MORE INFO
More info on the program, methods, application, etc. can be found in this flyer.
REGISTRATION
Nomination deadline: 22 October 2025
Confirmation of nomination: by 27 October 2025
DiSIBIP COURSE (organised parallel tot the Staff Conference that takes places from 22-24 April 2026)
The Diversity and Social Inclusion program aims to increase awareness of social inequalities in diverse contemporary societies by training future educators, healthcare professionals, and social workers using a cultural competence model with blended learning. The program addresses how cultural differences become problematic when viewed through power dynamics between majority and minority groups, leading to marginalization, and how socio-economic disparities connect to health inequalities and limited access to services.
Since these future professionals will work to bridge social gaps, their training emphasizes developing socio-cultural sensitivity, intercultural communication, and cooperation skills to better serve vulnerable populations who are often excluded from dominant institutional discourse.
This DiSIBIP course Participation will be worth 3 ECTS.
It will be led by experienced tutors during 5 days and will be organized parallel to the COHEHRE Conference which will take place on 22-24 April 2026.
The conference will be hosted by Universidade Católica Portuguesa Porto, Portugal.
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DATE & PLACE
20-24 April 2026
Universidade Católica Portuguesa | Porto
Porto, Portugal
STUDENT NOMINATIONS
Nominations: Via your international office. After confirmation of your nomination, you will be invited to register and pay.
Cost: €75 for all lunches
No tuition fee: The BIP is co-funded by Erasmus+
Included in the registration: All lunches, social dinner, field work, local transport, network lunch, registration network conference, reception conference, closing, …
Housing in Porto: Numerous possiblities in hotels, hostels, AirBnB….
We invite to apply for a maximum of 5 mobility grants for student delegations from your institution for this DiSIBIP (Diversity and Social Inclusion) course.
Coordinators are invited to submit the nominated students (max. 5/institution) here.
Only coordinators are permitted to submit these nominations, not students.
MORE INFORMATION
More information on the programme, methodology, goals & learning outcomes and accreditation, as well as practical information (fee, travel…) can be found here.
Manual
‘A unique opportunity for students to listen,
discuss and debate the issues around inclusion of
the most vulnerable group of people in our societies.’
COHEHRE conference 2026 – Porto
Staff Conference: April 22nd – 24th 2026
Student Conference: April 20th -24th 2026
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