In September 2019, Wenzao Ursuline University (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) proposed for the first time in Taiwan a course entitled: “European Union‘s Environmental Health Policy, its Achievements and main Challenges”. Designed as a co-taught course by two professors it was open to students from all departments with interest in the topic. The interdisciplinary course is part of a 3-year project financed by the European Union (EU), namely Jean Monnet Module (JMM).

JMMs are short teaching programmes supported by the EU´s Erasmus+ Programme in the field of EU studies at higher education institutions with a minimum duration of 40 teaching hours per academic year. In general, modules must focus on one particular discipline in European studies or be multidisciplinary requiring the academic input of several professors and experts.

The module aims at offering a tailor-made interdisciplinary course on EU policies and concrete actions in the field of environmental health, defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as addressing “all the physical, chemical and biological factors to a person, and all the related factors that can potentially affect health”. In other words, this course discusses the EU’s regional and international responses to some of the most urgent and common global issues linking environment and health, including chemical hazards, air pollution, climate change, water quality, plastics use,… to name a few.

After a presentation of the main goals of the module, this presentation aims at explaining how this project was executed, how students were practically involved through different types of activities (games, exhibition, oral presentations,...) and what kind of challenges students and coordinators faced.

Finally, the results of the first phase (2019-2020) of this module are presented. The study underlines the relevance of such a module for the enhancement of environmental health literacy among students.