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.
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:
BURUNDI: Mentorship Program for Laboratory Managers in Burundi – proposed by the National Association of Biomedical Technologists of Burundi (ANTEBBU)
INDIA: Educational Workshops on Clinical Laboratory Management - proposed by the Association of Clinical Biochemists of India (ACBI)
SPAIN: Distance Learning Course on Preanalytical Quality in Laboratory Medicine – proposed by Spanish Society of Laboratory Medicine (SEMEDLAB)
TURKIYE: e-Learning Course: Continuous Quality Improvement in Laboratory Medicine (Distance Learning Development) – proposed by the Turkish Biochemical Society (TBS)
UKRAINE: Laboratory Excellence Series – Electronic Educational Course for Clinicians – proposed by the Association of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine of Ukraine (ACCLMU)
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:
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