Health Knowledge Centre in the Upper Rhine Region

The Upper Rhine region, bordered by three countries, is a deeply integrated border zone in Europe, yet the implementation of health projects is facing new administrative and legal obstacles. In order to address this problem, a workshop was organised in 2015 by the relevant stakeholders to establish a centre for cross-border health cooperation. One year later (16 October 2016), the TRISAN project was launched, which enabled the creation of this centre.
TRISAN aims to harness and coordinate the potential of health cooperation along the Upper Rhine. The resulting cross-border knowledge centre will, among other things, coordinate health-related developments, guarantee networking and knowledge transfer, encourage cross-border patient mobility and minimise the shortage of health professionals.
The centre’s staff produce studies on cross-border health, compile multilingual information materials on health systems on different sides of the tri-border, facilitate the exchange of good practice, gather key events in the health sector and generate projects.
TRISAN consists of 25 founding members, headed by the Euro-Institut in Kehl.