Collaboration CAPHRI and chs

The Care and Public Health Research Institute (CAPHRI, Maastricht University, The Netherlands) and the Centre for Health and Society (chs, Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany) are geographically related and have many common interests in research and education in the field of health, care, public health and society. Various collaborations have already been implemented in recent years both at individual and organisational level (e.g., joint research applications, projects, publications, and PhDs, with a first bi-national PhD underway).

CAPHRI and chs intend to continue and consolidate their joint initiatives, as well as to explore possibilities for new initiatives in the area of research education, within the framework of a formal collaboration agreement (please find the position paper here).

The current and potential future areas of collaboration include:
• co-investigation in research projects (jointly funded or based on existing internal funding)
• co-authorship of research papers
• exchange of Master’s students for scientific internships and theses (including medical students from Maastricht doing their Wetenschapsparticipatie, WESP)
• exchange of teachers and teaching activities, including post-graduate teaching courses
• joint / bi-national PhD education
• collaboration in international networks

 

Working groups 

The collaboration was officially launched during the first CAPHR-chs Collaboration Day (CCC-Day), which took place in Düsseldorf on 22 September 2021. During this day plans were presented and the Memorandum of Understanding was signed. More than 30 CAPHRI and chs researchers had the opportunity to meet each other and brainstorm about possible collaborative projects within 6 working groups. The working groups had follow-up meetings after the CCC-Day to further discuss their planned activities.