SafeMa Hubs are established in the participating Asian Universities to be used for knowledge development, sharing and transfer concerning midwifery. The hubs will serve as model teaching, research, pedagogic and career guidance resource centers and will contribute to overcoming challenges faced by midwifes, such as poor pay, low status and a lack of support and the gender biases that feed these challenges. The SafeMa Hubs will also act as a ‘policy entrepreneur’, spreading ideas and skills, through the interaction with the academia, international organizations, policy-makers and society.

SafeMa Hubs for excellence in midwifery are established in the participating Asian universities to develop, share, and transfer knowledge around midwifery along with their contribution to overcome challenges faced by midwifes. Under the technical support of European partners, a network of SafeMa project is established to improve Asian partner HEIs’ capacities and, consequently, to generate and spread excellence in midwifery education and research in Vietnam and Cambodia.

In the context of the SafeMa project, a hub has been developed in each Partner University. The hubs offer facilities for knowledge sharing and transfer, research and skills development, intra-and extra- university partnership building, career guidance, awareness-raising planning and events and expert workshops. The hubs are used by academic staff, researchers, and students.

The facilities of each SafeMa Hub in Cambodia and Vietnam are available below: