The University of Cadiz participated in a new meeting of the 3L4MOHS project, Lifelong Learning for Mongolia; Occupational Health & Safety, which, on this occasion, took place at the Università degli Studi di Palermo in Italy on 16 and 18 February 2025.

The meeting was attended by 3 members of the MOVE-IT CTS1038 (Empowering Health by Physical Activity, Exercise, and Nutrition) group, professors Ana Carbonell Baeza and Vanesa España Romero, as well as David Jiménez Pavón, head of the project at the UCA and of the aforementioned group.

This is a Capacity Building project of the + programme. The consortium includes four Mongolian higher education institutions, two universities, and two colleges. The Mongolian universities are the Mongolian University of Science and Technology (MUST) and the National University of Mongolia (NUM), both based in the national capital of Ulaanbaatar. The other higher education institutions are the Polytechnical College of Khenti Province and the Umnugovi Province Polytechnic College covering remote areas of the vast country. The European partner universities are the University of Patras in Greece, the project coordinator, Università degli Studi diPalermo, and the University of Cadiz.

The aim of this meeting was to bring the consortium together to analyse the state of development and achievement of the main objectives of the project, the different tasks developed in the workpackages, and to clarify the tasks to be completed in the following months, as well as the roles of the different partners of the consortium in these tasks.

The aim of this project is to establish Lifelong Learning Centres (LLC) in 4 higher education institutions in Mongolia and to digitise the Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) curricula to be piloted through the higher education institutions. It will work on joint design of education and digitisation of educational resources through gamification and new pedagogical methods with the aim of modernising teaching.

The participation in the project of the UCA teachers, belonging to the department of Didactics of Physical, Plastic and Musical Education of the Faculty of Education, is currently focused on developing part of the course on health and safety at work. Specifically, content related to the promotion of a healthy lifestyle, especially through increased physical activity and fitness, in order to improve physical and mental health, while at the same time preventing future work-related injuries, to Mongolian university and higher education staff on new educational technologies and how to subsequently teach Mongolian workers the new online course that is being designed, using digital resources.

The UCA faculty involved are experts in the field of healthy lifestyles, and their previous experience in numerous research projects at regional and European levels carried out within the MOVE-IT group will be transferred both to the academic field and to training in health and safety at work and business in Mongolia, once the training of Mongolian workers is carried out.