Comboni College of Science and Technology

CALL FOR PROPOSALS - Baseline Study Consultancy “Net-Care: Innovation in Nursing and Palliative Care – Port Sudan” Project Full text of the Call: drive.google.com/file/d/1RQnDts… Terms of Reference: drive.google.com/file/d/1pCRZYy…

Our 8,000th open access book is "Technology, Cultural Heritage and Scientific Diplomacy", edited by Dr Sabrina Greco, Dr Maurizio Lazzari, and Fr Jorge Carlos Naranjo Alcaide. This monograph represents one of the first scientific texts to present technology applied to cultural heritage as a tool of scientific diplomacy. 📖 Read the story behind the milestone and explore our 8,000th title: bit.ly/4uunVJB #IntechOpen #OpenAccess #ScientificDiplomacy #CulturalHeritage @CNRsocial_ @Comboni_CCST

Even if the official inauguration of the web-platform will take place next 9 May, Kinda Gebre, our platform manager is already introducing teachers into its use. Last 30 April she introduced a group of teachers of the new school for deaf persons opened in Sawakin.

Explore the new links of the College website to two extraordinary projects developed by the Department of Computer Science: a virtual visit to the museum of Kerma and the digital platform to learn the signs language: combonikhartoum.com

CLINICAL PRACTICE IN PORT SUDAN STILL IN PROGRESS Nurses have the privilege of supporting the birth of new lives. We are proud of our nursing students and their high skills.

A CCST team met with the Director of the Sudan National Union of Deaf Persons and AISPO representatives to organize the launching of the web platform to teach the Signs Language in Sudanese Arabic. It will be next Saturday 9 of May at 11 am in the College HQ in Port Sudan.

The Italian press agency DIRE published the following article on our nursing program: dire.it/14-04-2026/123…

Comboni College adventure during the war in Mundo Negro magazine: mundonegro.es/educacion-en-m…

And in the second floor we had the nursing students of semester 5 trained in the nursing skills lab before going to health centers next week.

Ramadan Holidays finished and the College is full of activity. In the first floor of our premises in Port Sudan we had the second session of the SESAMAI project.

8 March – International Women´s Day. CCST managed to go ahead in the midst of the war thanks to commitment and professionality of wonderful women. UNHCR Africa dedicated a post to our Secretary and Procurator, Ms. Kinda Gebre

In Her Hands, she returns to complete what hardship interrupted. When perseverance meets opportunity, she completes the journey. Meet Endehafti Gebre Tesfay, born in Khartoum to Ethiopian refugee parents who believed in education despite never having it themselves. 🧵 1/4

8 March – International Women´s Day. CCST managed to go ahead in the midst of the war thanks to commitment and professionality of wonderful women. One of our partners, Mainel Foundation, interviewed PhD Halima Ali for their webpage (mainel.org/historias-de-s…)

In the SESAMAI project the Centre for Nursing Research and Innovation of Vita San Raffaele University delivers a structured training pathway in a blended format, combining remote training and in-person activities at CCST premises in Port Sudan.

The training sessions of the ERASMUS project “Enhancing higher education e-learning structures and modules in conflict regions of East Africa” (EAGLE) continues at the University of Nicosia since 19 January.

66 first year students sat for the exams provided by Cambridge University after completing the last three months of study of English language of their respective level in the framework of the Global English Language (GEL) program in Port Sudan.

The Virtual Hospital of the Universidad Católica de Valencia (UCV) was created with the aim of training health professionals using clinical simulation methodology. Through the project NET-CARE, the nursing staff of CCST will benefit from the training of the UCV.

The region of Valencia approved the project NET-Care presented by a consortium of partners formed by Mainel Foundation, Universitat Catolica de Valencia, CCST, Bitagdary NGO and Ivade Clinics of Valencia.

On 13 January, Fr. Jorge Naranjo, Principal and Chairman of the Board of Trustees, met the rector of the Universitat Catolica de Valencia, Dr. D. José Manuel Pagán Agulló, and Rubi Lovaton Abrill, manager of the project NET-CARE: INNOVATION IN NURSING AND PALLIATIVE CARE.

The 8th batch of volunteers completed 6 training sessions between 22 Nov. and 3 January. These volunteers are now ready to support persons with terminal and chronic diseases and their families at home in coordination with the Comboni Nursing Clinic - Palliative Care Hospice.