Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (UCSC)

The Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (UCSC) was founded in 1921 and includes five campuses (Milano, Brescia, Piacenza-Cremona, Roma and Campobasso). UCSC School of Medicine, established in Rome in 1961, covers all modern medical disciplines as well as some of the most considered medical scholars in the world: Medicine & Surgery, Nursing sciences, Physiotherapy, Public health, bioethics and a variety of other clinical subjects. UCSC is in close collaboration with Fondazione Policlinico Agostino Gemelli IRCCS (FPG). FPG provides healthcare to approximately 95,000 inpatients and 250,000 outpatients per year and, in the framework of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, trains doctors and other healthcare professionals (more than 1000 Medical Doctors graduated in the last 5 years; approx. 400 visiting doctors, 850 residents and 270 Ph.D. degrees per year). UCSC in the last 5 years has participated in 52 health related European and International projects: 6 have been successfully coordinated by UCSC. In the framework of the EDEN project (FP7, concluded 2016), UCSC organized within the FPG premises two full scale live exercises. Within EU Projects EDEN, Reaching Out, and ENCIRCLE (H2020) UCSC is providing ethical monitoring and supervision through the evaluation of different tools and demos and the ethical review of selected deliverables.

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