Knowledge Transfer and Cross Learning --- One of our Course Directors in Global Health, Beat Stoll, is actually very involved in this project, and told us enthusiastically about it. What is important I think is not only to KNOW what problems you can face, but also to UNDERSTAND them. The difficulty can be if hierarchies of "knowledge" establish (or often: not abolished) because I'd say transfer is not necessarily "downwards". I unfortunately experienced it in northern Namibia. In a totally different area I'm working on (or in ;-) right now, the glacier cave rescue, a relatively unknown " discipline where mountain and cave environment reunite, I can see some similarities. Surprisingly there have not been much interaction until now, and both milieus are quite selfconscious (and male and strong...). It's funny to explain the mountaineers that it is not about rescuing somebody who accidentally fell in a glacier hole, and cavers that water rise in a glacier is not the same as in karst. As for me, I'm not a top expert in neither of them, but I enjoy bringing the worlds :-)

Source author: Katharina Beyer katharina.beyer@etu.unige.ch