SQW commissioned to evaluate Sciana – the Health Leaders Network
Sciana is a network of health leaders based in Europe, which is dedicated to the joint exploration and collective problem-solving of future challenges for health and wellbeing. Sciana offers its fellows a systems leadership programme for health and wellbeing, including healthcare.
It is a network supporting cross-country and interdisciplinary connections, innovation and collaboration. Sciana offers time for reflection and collective support to think ahead on the big issues facing our health systems and their leaders today, as well as in the future.
The programme brings fellows together to question their understanding of leadership to foster systems change.
The Sciana network is supported by a partnership between the Health Foundation (UK), Careum (Switzerland) and the Robert Bosch Stiftung (Germany) in close collaboration with Salzburg Global Seminar.
The Network has been operating since 2017, with almost 100 Fellows having taken part so far across five cohorts. In spring 2023, SQW was commissioned by the foundation partners to undertake a process and impact evaluation of Sciana. The evaluation will run until October 2023, and will explore programme processes, governance, key activities (such as the Sciana Challenge and mentoring), as well as its impact on Fellows, their employing organisations and healthcare policy.
SQW study leads recently attended the May 2023 Sciana residential in Salzburg, which is a core part of the programme and enables Fellows to come together with Advisors, the Chair, Co-Chairs and external expert speakers. SQW will be conducting a series of interviews with Fellows and their colleagues, Network Advisors, the Chair and Co-Chairs, and programme delivery leads. We will also be reviewing existing monitoring and evaluation data, and documentation provided by the Network.
For more information about Sciana – the Health Leaders Network, please contact Louise Baker-Schuster, via Louise.Baker-Schuster@bosch-health-campus.com, or visit the Sciana website.
For more information about SQW’s evaluation, please contact Lauren Roberts, via lroberts@sqw.co.uk.
