CEESO (Centre Européen d’Enseignement Supérieur de l’Ostéopathie ; Centre of European Education in Science of Osteopathy) is a French leading school of osteopathy, based both in Paris and Lyon, where we train future osteopaths, according to a five to six years program.
Our institution strongly believes that international co-operation is a key factor for a better education content and logistic as well as improvement in the field of research and therefore knowledge excellence.
Clearly, our objective is to have students as well as teachers taking experience outside France and bring it back here for better courses and practise. As a reciprocity attitude, we would welcome to train students and teachers to specifics of “French” osteopathy and bring it back to their country.
In Brief:
The institution was created in 1991 and the European orientation (mentioned in our name) was already strong from day 1.
In regards of European and International collaboration, CEESO has built relations with American and Russian institutions, as well as Italian and British ones. We are looking for more partnerships in Europe, but only with the idea of“win-win” collaboration.
In 2007 20 % of our teachers have been trained outside France and 10 % of our students come from abroad.
The purpose of these collaborations is to understand the different systems to facilitate transfer of knowledge, research, students or teachers.
Visibility of the Erasmus & International programs:
In order to have these mobility objectives visible for both inside and outside public, we have adapted our communication to reflect this. This site www.ceeso.eu has been set up to reflect all projects and opportunities for Erasmus students and teachers as well as other international collaborations.
CEESO has set up an independent website for research :
http://www.recherche-osteopathie.com/
First international program has been carried out with Saint Petersburg State University
Further research project will be carried out according opportunities.
Our website has a specific part dedicated to Erasmus.
To ease initiatives from abroad with us we have set up a “collaboration opportunity form”, which should be used by any entity to enter in contact with us for collaboration.
Cohesion:
Osteopathy is a health science and humanism, empathy, altruism as well as sense of equality are inherent to this practise. Teaching osteopathy not only means to teach these principles but to show the example as much as possible in the way we integrate staff and student.
Diversity of origins (social, racial, philosophic, etc.) has been a long-term attitude in our recruitment both in term of staff and student. It has reached a point where mentioning the scope of this policy sounds strange and artificial to us, as it is now just natural to act and practise according to this principle. In other words: in CEESO, diversity is a rule, a right, an attitude but finally a common sense.
The following points are representative of the incentive we set up in terms of mobility:
- We consider that our institution get benefit by welcoming students of different origins and culture. Therefore, we adapt ourselves to this opportunity, in terms of logistic and pedagogy.
- European students are eligible for all social advantages relating to their student status regardless their country of origin.
- A special scholarship has been set up in 2007 to facilitate the venue of students in our institution (this was 2000 Euro in 2007). It is aimed at taken part of the extra charge that a foreign may face the first year of study.
- ECTS (European Credit Transfer System) has been introduced in 2006 to ease the understanding of our course from abroad. Inbound, we accept ECTS from any European registered institution. Outbound we publish an ECTS based listing of all our students willing to study abroad. We should be soon fully compliant with the European ECT System, after the present charter would have been published.
- A Supplement of Diploma exists to facilitate the understanding of our courses.
- A dedicated care is given to all students that express the need. This can be:
- Listing of existing language training at the time of application and contacts to start the training as soon as possible
- Listing of local accommodation, that can be preceded by a temporary student hosting (some of our students are willing to temporary host foreign students while they look for a definitive alternative for accommodation)
- Help in understanding French administrative paperwork, if any.
- Basically, anything that can ease the student integration.
- Concerning staff mobility, 20% of our teachers have been trained outside France and we recommend reaching 30% for the future. It is important for us to exchange knowledge by allowing this kind of transfer in all direction.
- We are open to individual as well as global initiative to promote staff mobility.
Osteopathy is Therapy. Therefore the purpose of the training is to work as an independent therapist. Student placement in that case has not the same impact as for engineering studies for example where the goal of these studies is to integrate a firm.
Nevertheless, placement in our case means more our ability to prepare the student to real independent work. To ensure this, we not only train our student to osteopathy but as well to legal aspect of independent workers, to specific accounting and real estate issues. We give them conference on how to deal with other medical praticians, how to start relations with the existing health praticians in the area they intend to work, what are the “good practise” in term of “health marketing”, where deontology play an important role. Finally, conference concerning other practice such as homeopathy, acupuncture, natural therapy may be given to illustrate the scope of osteopathy in a global picture.
We are conducting a study where we analyse the need of osteopaths in the different regions of France. This study is due to last several years.
