Surgiland project – Advanced professional training in microsurgery, minimally invasive surgery and experimental surgery - addressed to Tunisia and Morocco, is an initiative realized as part of the integrated project named SWAP – Italian acronym meaning Health and Welfare for an Action of Partnership (funded by the Mediterranean Framework Program Agreement, executing the “Support Program to Regional Cooperation ” funded by Italian State and Regions).

Campania Region, as project leader, created with A.O.R.N. A. Cardarelli the local Partnership in order to carry out the integrated project SWAP, of which Surgiland is one of the two modules. The second module is made of the MEheNET project (Mental Health Network: Support to Community Mental Network development), realized by Lazio Region (project leader), Veneto and Puglia (Italian partner Regions) and Egypt (Mediterranean Partner).