The Sesameh Project, a MOOC co-created by Pauline Martinot, a PHD student, raised 47k euros!

Pauline Martinot, FIRE Phd student* co-lead of “The Project Sesameh” with Pr Annabelle Tenenbaum. Their goal is to create « the first open online MOOC » that would empower students in health in France for their « Service Sanitaire ». The MOOC will allow every student to learn how to realize from A to Z an intervention in health promotion at school.

USING INTERDISCIPLINARITY TO PROMOTE HEALTH

Le Service Sanitaire is a set of actions, initiated in 2018, for all french students in health (nurses, doctors, dentists, midwives, physical therapists…) to work as an interdisciplinary team, to implement a health promotion program in schools, in order to raise awareness about a positive and encouraging vision of health.

Three teams from CRI are involved and mobilized in this project : Sapiens and the Institut des Défis for the pedagogical engineering and the MOOC Studio for the realization of the videos.

A PROJECT ACKNOWLEDGED FOR ITS WIDE POTENTIAL : 47K OF INVESTISSEMENT

The project rose enthusiasm and got awarded by the grant The Initiative of Excellence “Université Paris 2019″ which “is a world-class university centre implementing innovative and structuring programmes in the fields of research, training, student life and knowledge transfer on an international scale. These programmes are funded by revenues from a government endowment and are deployed in collaboration with partner research organisations and institutions.”

Acknowledging the project’s potential, the Initiative of Excellence provided a 47 000 euros fund for the team to make the MOOC and the Sesameh Project come to life.

*The « Frontières de l’Innovation en Recherche et Éducation » (FIRE) Doctoral School is an international and interdisciplinary PhD program, hosted by Université de Paris (UdP) and co-hosted by Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)