Projects

Introduction

The Foundation for Emerging Nations (FEN) is a non-profit making Charitable Trust established in 2016 under Swiss Law.

The FEN is devoted to fund raising and to supporting programmes that help to improve the quality and delivery of laboratory medicine services in emerging nations.

2025 PROJECTS

Following a recent call of the FEN Board, several project proposals were submitted. The FEN Board of Directors reviewed all submissions, and five projects (listed below) have been selected for funding within the FEN Programme. The Board was particularly impressed by the quality, originality, and potential impact of these proposals and is pleased to confirm that it will now seek the necessary funding to support the implementation of these five projects.

Below please find the list of received projects for which we are now seeking funding from various organizations:

1. Mentorship Program for Laboratory Managers in Burundi – project received by the National Association of Biomedical Technologists of Burundi (ANTEBBU) - https://ifcc.org/executive-board-and-council/council/full-members/burundi-bi-antebbu/  
2. Distance Learning Course on Preanalytical Quality in Laboratory Medicine – received by Spanish Society of Laboratory Medicine (SEMEDLAB) -  https://ifcc.org/executive-board-and-council/council/full-members/spain-national-society-es/
3. E-Learning Course: Continuous Quality Improvement in Laboratory Medicine (Distance Learning Development) – Proposed by the Turkish Biochemical Society (TBS) - https://ifcc.org/executive-board-and-council/council/full-members/turkey-national-society-tr/ 
4. Laboratory Excellence Series – Electronic Educational Course for Clinicians – proposed by the  Association of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine of Ukraine (ACCLMU) -  https://ifcc.org/executive-board-and-council/council/full-members/ukraine-national-society-ua/
5. Project Proposal for Educational Workshops on Clinical Laboratory Management – proposed by the Association of Clinical Biochemists of India (ACBI) - https://ifcc.org/executive-board-and-council/council/full-members/india-national-society-in/

Completed projects supported by FEN

• 'LAB SURFING: A RESOURCE TO FACILITATE GLOBAL EXCHANGE BETWEEN YOUNG SCIENTISTS
• 'ADOPT A PROFESSIONAL': COLLABORATION TO SUPPORT THE TRAINING OF LABORATORY MEDICINE SPECIALISTS
• ‘AFCC AFRICA MEDLAB RADIO’
• 'COMPREHENSIVE EXTERNAL ASSESSMENT OF PROFICIENCY OF MALARIA MICROSCOPSTS AND LABORATORY CAPACITY IN DISTRICTS STRATIFIED FOR MALARIA ELIMINATION IN ETHIOPIA' 
• LAB SURFING final report - July 2017
• 'ADOPT A PROFESSIONAL'. Report from Lumbani Phiri from Zambia 
• 'ADOPT A PROFESSIONAL'. Report from José Guillermo Pereira Brunelli from Paraguay
• MALARIA MICROSCOPY IN ETHIOPIA’. Technical report from Desalegn Nega and colleagues
• 'FEN-SNIBE SUPPORT A PROFESSIONAL'. Report from Sibtain Ahmed from Pakistan

Similar projects previously supported by IFCC

Background:

IFCC has a long and proud record of supporting educational projects to improve the quality of laboratory medicine in emerging nations. It was this experience that prompted IFCC to establish the FEN so that this important area of work can be given higher prominence. A small selection of such projects is given in this section to illustrate the variety of projects supported by IFCC. The map shows the geographical scope of the projects:

These projects do not define the limits of projects that may be funded by the FEN.

Click on the links below for description of the IFCC projects:

Visiting Lecturer Programme 

Strategic planning in Malawi

Pilot EQA scheme in Vietnam and Zambia

Educational Workshops in Africa and Asia

Weekly radio programmes in Spanish in Latin America

Clinical Molecular Biology Curriculum and Course