IPPNW will launch an international program of exchanges to support peace and justice activism among medical students, and to link them to the activist medical community after graduation.

MedEx is a multilateral, sponsored student exchange, using IPPNW's affiliate organizations in 65 countries and 20 years of experience in physician/medical student activism. MedEx will train tomorrow's physicians for peace activism through an equal and just exchange, and transfer skills in many directions throughout the world. 

MedEx will use IPPNW's medical groups to host exchange students for 
(1) a clinical elective 
(2) a social service activity and 
(3) a follow-up activity in one of the following fields:
     peace and disarmament,
     conflict and violence prevention, 
     abolition of nuclear weapons and nuclear power, or 
     public health

Any student in a certified medical school is eligible. IPPNW physicians and students will publicize the program. Five country affiliates of IPPNW have committed to hosting MedEx students: Canada, Kenya, Philippines, Zambia, and the US. Exchanges are under discussion in Belarus, El Salvador, Israel, The Netherlands, and Uganda. The goal for 2004 is 10 exchanges. 
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The Nuclear Weapons Inheritance Project is a student project of SLMK (Swedish Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War) and IPPNW. The NWIP aims to provide information and start opinion building in nuclear weapon states amongst students and future decision-makers.

The core group consists of international medical students who participate in delegations to the nuclear weapon states.  Furthermore the project seeks to establish national groups of students in the nuclear weapon states who dialogue with peers on a continuous basis. 

The international student group will form delegations to travel to the capitals of USA, Russia, India, Pakistan, China, UK and France. Dialogues with students take place at faculties of health sciences, political sciences and natural sciences. In addition to the dialogue activities, trainings of already active and future active students in dialogue technique and nuclear weapons basics are undertaken. The international group serve as resource persons for the national groups after delegations and recruit new members from the national groups as well as from the IPPNW student network. 

IPPNW physicians will be undertaking dialogues with decision-makers simultaneously with the students dialogues. This gives rich opportunity for interaction between students and physicians. 
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In order to bring this issue back into the political mainstream, raise awareness about the dangers of hanging on to nuclear weapons as a means of deterrence and create a dialogue about the complete abolition of nuclear arms, IPPNW students have created the Project Target X.

This website was designed in order to teach local groups how to perform their own installation of this project in their home city.

Using public demonstations to show the still existing danger of a nuclear attack, medical students can contribute to the international campaign to ban nuclear weapons and help raise awareness for this issue in their local community. A large red "X", painted on the central square of your city, with white-coated medical students standing around it, handing out information material and engaging in discussions with passerbys can achieve what seminars, conferences never can.
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This project, which was first realized at a school in Dresden, Germany, deals with strangeness and prejudices in the pupils’ everyday life. Our motivation is to do something against the fear and the prejudices towards strange people - not only foreigners from other countries, but also strangers in our everyday life. And we want to be a small contribution to the pupils’ development of their social competence as we think a lack of this competence leads to intolerance, discrimination and racism. Strangers and unknown social groups (e.g. disabled people, foreigners, homosexuals…) are easy targets for prejudices, fear and anger. 

With our project, we want to give the pupils the opportunity to find a way to get in contact with these groups and to gain an impression of how they really are. After having met the “strange” groups, the pupils should reflect their prejudices they actively figured out before and weather they were justified. It also should allow the pupils the experience that it often is much easier to get to know the strangers than they think and that this can be great as well. 
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At the Joint European and Middle Eastern Student Conference in Berlin, several students from different countries of Western and Eastern Europe, North America and the Middle East got together and discussed the current problems in Palestinian refugee camps. Out of these talks evolved the idea for a project that would not only offer aid to Palestinian, but to other refugee camps as well. Thus, the Refugee Camp Project (ReCap) was founded as an international IPPNW student project.
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