cLovid is presented to the EU as an example of good practice

The University of Muenster, Utrecht Medical Imaging Center and the University of Turku received EU funding in 2021 in order to develop digital solutions for medical education so it could  be better prepared for crisis situations such as the COVID19 pandemic.

The international cLovid team, which managed to  develop a novel, integrated online system for the teaching of pathology, has received excellent  reviews from its national funding agency  (DAAD). The DAAD gave the project 93 out of a possible 100 points and is recommending it to the EU  as an example of good practice.

– We believe that the digital learning environment developed by cLovid is  very well suited to the needs of specialist training and we will strive to  promote its adoption in Finland. We are currently investigating  intellectual property issues," says Dr. Laura Helle university research fellow from the Department of Teacher Education at the University of Turku.

The two-year multidisciplinary project was tough.

– First, the central European partners had to build a digital learning environment before we  could test it in practical teaching situations, let alone evaluate the results. The first technical stress test failed, so two practical teaching experiments had to be carried out  in the last few metres of the project, says Helle.

In addition to Dr. Helle from the University of Turku, the consortium's development work was driven forward by project researcher Mikko Kainulainen from Department of Teacher Education, and Associate Professor Pauliina Kronqvist  together with Katarina Korpinen from the Department of Biomedicine.