In February 2025, the World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for Europe designated the European Campus Rottal-Inn (ECRI) at the Deggendorf Institute of Technology (THD) as the German WHO Collaborating Centre for Digital Health.
This makes ECRI one of the 27 current WHO partners in Germany – and the only centre on Digital Health.
The designation is initially valid for four years and can be extended.
tasks and objectives
As a WHO Collaborating Centre, the European Campus Rottal-Inn (ECRI) supports the WHO in the following areas:
- Training and capacity building for healthcare professionals
- Research and evaluation of digital health measures
- Policy and strategy development to strengthen digital health systems
- Evidence-based recommendations for policy and practice
Specific contributions include:
- Analysis of existing political and ethical frameworks in digital health
- Identification of gaps and areas for improvement
- Collaboration on the revision of a WHO toolkit for planning, implementing and evaluating digital health solutions
- Development of training materials and coordination of continuing education initiatives for professionals
- Establishment of an evidence base for sustainable innovations in healthcare
The new collaboration supports the implementation of the Regional Action Plan on Digital Health for the WHO European Region 2023–2030 and the WHO Global Strategy on Digital Health.
contact
Head of the Centre: Prof. Dr Georgi Chaltikyan
Staff: Jishen Pfeiffer, Eugenia Lvova
You can find out more about WHO Collaborating Centres here: https://www.who.int/europe/about-us/partnerships/partners/collaborating-centres