Resilience project

Project Proposal

 

With this project proposal we hope to give you an idea of the summer school as proposed on the resilience project meeting in Strasbourg on 28 and 29 September 2008.

 

Project: the resilience summer school is founded to form a platform for medical students from Israel, Palestine and Europe to discuss the health problems due to the enduring Israeli-Palestinian conflict and learn practical solutions to solve these problems together. During three weeks the students follow daily lectures about various health problems such as PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) and others. Besides the plenary lectures the students will follow different kinds of interactive workshops in groups of 10 students. These workshops are focused on producing practical solutions which can be performed by medical students and other medical professionals in Palestine and Israel.  At the end of each day the results of the workshops will be presented during a plenary session in which the students have the possibility to further discuss the results. At the end of the summer school several clear solutions will be presented and put on paper. These solutions are to be implemented into new projects which can be executed by Palestinians and Israelis to premise health problems above the conflict issues. The ten European students will travel to the Israel and Palestine to meet the Isreali students and Palestinian students in their own lands. The isreali stduents and Palestinian Students will show the European students the problems the experience in daily life during this two week trip.

 

Aim of the project: With this project we hope to emphasize that within the Middle East all medical students and medical professionals experience problems associated with the middle eastern conflicts. We hope to create a platform in which both Israeli and Palestinian students can come together and learn about the practical solutions for Health problems due to the enduring Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

 

Target group:

This project is accessible for ten Israeli medical students, ten Palestinian medical students and ten European medical students. We search for Palestinian and Israeli students who are willing to start an open dialog about the Health problems within Palestine and Israel due to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The students must be engaged and prepared to form concrete and useful solutions to existing health problems within their own countries and that of their neighbors. It must be clear to the students that the summer school is not created to form a platform to discuss the conflict or other political problems between the two countries. The European students have to be prepared to fund the project and form a neutral party within the summer school. Furthermore they will think of solutions which can be preformed within Europe and therefore support the Israeli and Palestinian medical students solving their medical health problems.

 

Time schedule: The summer school itself is in either July or August of 2010 dependent on the preference of the Israeli and Palestinian Organizing committees. The preparation phase is scheduled as followed.

 

Date	Task
November 2008 – January 2009	Three organizing committees are formed: -         a Israeli committee existing at least out of three members, -         a Palestinian organizing committee existing out of at least 3 members and -         A European Committee existing at least out of 8 members.
January 2009 – June 2009	The project proposal and a budget are formed by both the Israeli and Palestinian committee, if necessary by holding several meetings around Jerusalem. During the same period the European students will form a list of Possible funds and organizations which can be helpful for the project.
June 2009 – December 2009	The European committee will search for funding and collect enough money to cover the budget as proposed by the Israeli and Palestinian committees. During the same period the Israeli and Palestinian committees will start with the preparations of the summer school. Such as notifying different speakers to perform at the summer school, find accommodation for 30 students, etc. etc.
January 2010	The European committee, Palestinian committee and the Israeli committee will come together somewhere in Europe to discuss the whole project and divided the tasks.
January 2010 – June 2010	All committees will promote the summer school under medical students and form groups of twenty participants. In the same period all the remaining preparations are made so that the summer school is ready to start.
July 2010 or August 2010	Summer school + trip to Israel and palestine
September – December 2010	Evaluation of the summer school and start of new projects as proposed at the summer school

 

Location: The preparation of the summer school will be divided into two areas. The Israeli committee and Palestinian committee will have a couple of meetings during the preparation of the summer school. These preparation meetings will be preferably held in Jerusalem. The European students on the other hand will be responsible for the sponsoring and therefore have a couple of meetings within Europe. The summer school itself will be held in either Jordan or Egypt dependent on the preference of the Israeli and Palestinian Organizing Committee.