Cross-border collaboration between greece and bulgaria: the use of ict in improving social medicine education arrangements

Abstract : Cross-country-border collaboration exists in various fields as regions are facing similar social and economic challenges. Many countries of South-East Europe experience a lack of knowledge, especially in topics of social medicine. Improved collaboration across the borders can develop the appropriate conditions for enhanced knowledge sharing and ICT can effectively contribute to this aim. The system proposed in this paper is the combination of a database and a Geographic Information System that accepts inputs from different sources and produces outputs for different uses. It was developed in the framework of an INTERREG IIIA Greece-Bulgaria collaborative project named “CrossBorderHealth”, and was aiming to improve education in social medicine bilaterally.