The SUSA project, which started in January 2025 and is due to run until the end of 2028,  is designed to equip students, healthcare professionals, and educators with advanced digital health competencies needed to thrive in a rapidly evolving healthcare ecosystem. The project responds directly to Europe’s urgent skills gaps in health data, digital tools, and AI-enabled care, ensuring the workforce can meet the challenges of the European Health Data Space and beyond.

Bringing together 12 higher education institutions, 6 SMEs, a hospital, a research centre, and two networking organisations, SUSA is creating a new pan-European model of digital health education. This model includes Bachelor’s and Master’s programmes, micro-credentials, and lifelong learning modules that are co-designed with industry and healthcare stakeholders to ensure relevance, quality, and real-world impact.

Activities

The consortium will create and deliver a diverse set of training opportunities, guided by the following objectives:

• Develop a sustainable and collaborative education and training ecosystem for digital health.

• Embed advanced digital health competencies into Bachelor’s and Master’s programmes across 9 countries.

• Provide flexible lifelong learning opportunities through 16 self-standing modules and micro-credentials.

• Empower over 6,500 graduates and 660 professionals with future-ready digital health skills.

• Strengthen collaboration between academia, healthcare providers, and industry to ensure skills meet labour market needs.

SUSA will deliver 20 Bachelor’s programmes, 26 Master’s programmes, and 16 standalone modules, co-created by European universities and stakeholders across the healthcare ecosystem.

Target group

SUSA’s training offer is tailored to meet the needs of a wide range of audiences within the digital health sector:

• Undergraduate and postgraduate students in health and related fields

• Healthcare professionals seeking to upskill or reskill in digital health

• Educators and trainers developing health curricula

• Employers across the health and life sciences sectors seeking digitally skilled talent

• Policymakers and stakeholders in the European health ecosystem

The programmes will be designed to be inclusive, accessible, and gender-sensitive, with a strong focus on increasing the participation of women and underrepresented groups in digital health education and careers.

Partners

Coordinator

• University of Oulu (Finland)

Beneficiaries

• Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Greece

• St James’s Hospital (SJH), Ireland

• Erasmus MC, Netherlands

• GNOMON Informatics, Greece

• iCognitus, Portugal

• European Institute for Innovation through Health Data (i-HD), Belgium

• Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI), Croatia

• Lapland University of Applied Sciences (LUAS), Finland

• Middle East Technical University (METU), Türkiye

• SuccessClinic (SC), Finland

• Skillnet Ireland, Ireland

• Slovak University of Technology (STUBA), Slovakia

• Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Ireland

• University College Dublin (UCD), Irelan

• University of Limerick (UL), Ireland

• University of Lodz (ULODZ), Poland

• University of Zagreb (UNIZG-FER), Croatia

• University of Sevilla (USE), Spain

LinkedIn: SUSA Project
Website: susacampus.eu