The project ultimately aims at improving patient care and wellbeing in Tanzania. Central notions in this are: Respectful and Compassiante patient centered Care (RCC), communication skills and Health Literacy (HL).RCC and HL have entered strategic plans in education, but are not truly embedded in educational and professional practice in Tanzania yet. Universities have insufficient tools to develop and implement this within the study programmes. This is also identified by the Ministry of Health (involved in this proposal itself). The project aims at enabling Tanzanian universities (and hospitals) to do so.In concrete terms, the project consists of:- Curriculum development in the fields of RCC, HL, student communication skills, adapted to the situation in Tanzania.- Capacity building at university and hospital level: a train the trainer programme will be developed for Tanzania to start to build a pool of lecturers and clinical instructors, competent in teaching and assessing a curriculum based training for Nursing students in Respectful and Compassionate patient centered Care using Health Literacy communication skills. On the Tanzanian side, the partnership consists of three Tanzanian universities in Health, three referral hospitals and the Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children. On the European side, three universities (schools in Nursing/Health) from Ireland, Norway and the Netherlands are involved, as well as a University Medical Centre in the Netherlands.The project will take place in three regions of Tanzania. It is foreseen that the curriculum and training will be introduced in the other regions as well (after the project period), with the Ministry as leading institution (Tanzania has a national curriculum in Nursing).