Kronikgune

Basque Country awarded the Seal of Excellence by the European Commission for fostering regional innovation in active and healthy ageing

By |2020-01-16T14:29:08+01:004 October 2019|

This award recognises the coordination and consistency of Basque institutions and organisations when meeting people's needs and improving their quality of life. The European Commission has given the Basque Country the highest possible rating, four stars, and the “Seal of Excellence” as a Reference Site for their outstanding work fostering regional innovation and active and [...]

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The C3-Cloud and Scirocco Exchange projects were presented at the congress “Digital Health: Challenges for progress”

By |2019-10-11T12:58:27+02:0024 September 2019|

Palacio Miramar in Donostia - San Sebastián hosted the last edition of the congress on 12 and 13 September 2019. The “Digital Health: Challenges for progress” congress organised by Osakidetza and the UPV/EHU Summer Courses included the participation of the Health Minister, Nekane Murga, who gave the inaugural speech. The central themes of the congress [...]

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UPRIGHT project takes part in the fourth National Congress on Psychology

By |2020-01-16T14:41:36+01:0014 August 2019|

The fourth national congress took place from 21 to 24 July 2019 in the city of Vitoria-Gasteiz. Nekane Murga, Basque Regional Minister for Health, was in charge of opening the congress, which was held this year for the first time alongside the International Symposium on Psychological Prevention. Over four days more than 1,500 people gathered [...]

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UPRIGHT project presented at IPPA, the international positive psychology congress

By |2020-01-16T14:50:34+01:008 August 2019|

The sixth edition took place from 19 to 21 July at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre in Australia.  The main theme of this international congress, renowned within the field of positive psychology and positive education, was "Nexus", i.e. connection. Its scientific programme, aligned with the UPRIGHT project, included presentations about positive education programmes and [...]

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UPRIGHT consortium meets at its third plenary assembly

By |2019-10-02T10:13:04+02:004 July 2019|

The meeting allowed us to analyse the tasks developed until now and establish a detailed plan for the actions to be carried out over the next months. Trondheim (Norway), where the NTNU -one of the seven members of the Consortium- headquarters are located, was chosen to hold the third general assembly for the UPRIGHT European [...]

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A Basque Country delegation visits Scotland as part of the Interreg Europe Project TITTAN

By |2019-09-09T16:18:24+02:0026 June 2019|

Osakidetza and Kronikgune along with BIOEF visited the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow on 29 and 30 April.  This visit forms part of the activities in the 2019-2020 action plan for the Interreg Europe Project, TITTAN (Translation, Innovation & Technology Transfer in Ageing Network). TITTAN seeks to improve the quality of healthcare systems by developing [...]

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Kronikgune starts cooperation in a new European project: Young50

By |2019-10-02T09:58:02+02:0018 June 2019|

The kick-off meeting for the Young50 project was held on 6 and 7 June.  Cardiovascular diseases are one of the main causes of mortality in the European Union, causing over 1.8 million deaths per year, as well as a significant loss of potential life expectancy. Scientific evidence has highlighted the need for preventative interventions to [...]

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Osakidetza and Kronikgune present value-based care breakthroughs at the ICHOM 2019 conference

By |2019-10-11T13:43:29+02:0031 May 2019|

On 2 and 3 May 2019, the city of Rotterdam welcomed this event. ICHOM is a non-profit organisation seeking to catalyse the global movement to transform patient care into value-based healthcare. This transformation is promoted in several ways: encouraging informed decision making, improving care quality and reducing costs. To date, the organisation has worked with [...]

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Sixth C3-Cloud European Project General Assembly

By |2019-10-23T15:30:10+02:0023 May 2019|

All the project partners gathered in London on 9-10 May 2019. At this Assembly, participants analysed the work carried out over the past six months, planned the main tasks to be undertaken over the next few months, and prepared the second official project review with the European Commission. The main goal of the C3-Cloud Project [...]

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CHRODIS-PLUS joint action holds its general assembly

By |2019-10-02T09:48:44+02:0023 May 2019|

The city of Budapest hosted the general assembly on the 14th and 15th of May.  The CHRODIS-PLUS Joint Action, which has been operating for 20 months, seeks to address the burden caused by chronic diseases, as well as ensuring sustainability and response from European healthcare systems. 42 beneficiaries from 20 European countries, including Norway, [...]

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Kronikgune attends the X IX International Conference on Integrated Care, ICIC, in Donostia-San Sebastian

By |2019-09-20T10:52:56+02:0024 April 2019|

The international annual conference on Integrated Care was held from 1 to 3 April. The congress was organized by Osakidetza, BIOEF, the Health Department of the Basque Government, the Donostia-San Sebastian City Council and the Gipuzkoa Provincial Council, along with the International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC), under the title “A shared culture for change: [...]

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The ADVANTAGE partners from Southern Europe meet to define the frailty roadmap

By |2019-09-20T10:36:54+02:0017 April 2019|

The Institute of Public Health of The American College of Greece was the chosen venue for the meeting held on the 10th and 11th of April, 2019. The European Union’s Third Health Programme (2014-2020) co-finances the ADVANTAGE Joint Action. The project is currently in its final stage. Kronikgune and Osakidetza, representing the Basque Country, are [...]

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Kronikgune presents the Advantage project at the 1st workshop on Caring for the Elderly organised by Osakidetza

By |2019-06-26T08:55:40+02:0031 March 2019|

The event was held on 14 March at the Cruces University Hospital lecture hall.    The 1st Workshop on Caring for the Elderly brought together health professionals in Primary Care, Mental Health Care, Hospital Care, Social and Health fields, and Public Health, as well as management teams in the health sector. It had two objectives: (i) [...]

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Kronikgune presents several European projects at the 11th National Congress of Chronic Patient Healthcare

By |2019-06-26T08:45:04+02:0019 March 2019|

The 11th edition of the National Congress of Chronic Patient Healthcare was held at the Merida Conference and Exhibition Centre from 7 to 8 March. The event brought together health and social services professionals, health managers and patients under the motto “Expanding Horizons” to discuss the future of chronic diseases. It is estimated that at [...]

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Second plenary assembly for the UPRIGHT European Project

By |2019-05-31T12:44:33+02:0020 February 2019|

This second meeting between the partners was held on 6 and 7 February 2019 in the city of Trento, Italy.  The UPRIGHT project, “Universal Preventive Resilience Intervention Globally implemented in schools to improve and promote mental Health for Teenagers”, aims to promote mental well-being and prevent mental illnesses by increasing resilience in teenagers. The study [...]

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Kronikgune starts the cooperation in a new European project: SCIROCCO Exchange

By |2019-05-31T09:54:33+02:0012 February 2019|

The kick-off meeting for the SCIROCCO Exchange project was held on 6 and 7 February in Luxembourg. Fourteen partners make up the Scirocco Exchange consortium, including Kronikgune and Osakidetza. Nine European regions are involved: Germany, Flanders, the Basque Country, Scotland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Vilnius, Poland and Puglia. The main objective of the project, which is funded [...]

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Brussels hosted the ACT@Scale project’s 7th general meeting

By |2019-05-31T09:44:50+02:001 February 2019|

The seventh and final general meeting of the ACT@Scale project was held on 23 January at the European office for the Southern Denmark region in Brussels. The aim of ACT@Scale is to develop, consolidate and scale-up Good Practices in integrated care and telemonitoring, and to transfer learning between European regions through a collaborative methodology. The [...]

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Kronikgune takes part in an integrated healthcare workshop

By |2019-01-28T13:48:41+01:0028 January 2019|

Kronikgune has taken part in the “Steering Group on Promotion and Prevention (SGPP) Marketplace Workshop on Digitally-enabled, Integrated, Person-centred Care”, representing the Department of Health of the Basque Government. This event, organised by the European Commission, took place on 12-13 December 2018 at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra (Italy). The Basque Country was [...]

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The C3-Cloud project holds its 5th plenary meeting in Bonn

By |2018-12-19T10:14:26+01:0019 December 2018|

The 5th plenary session of the C3-Cloud Project took place in Bonn (Germany) on the 5, 6 and 7 November. This event facilitated the review of actions recently implemented and the optimisation and redefinition of pending actions needed to kick-start the intervention to be launched in February 2019. The aim of the C3-Cloud Project is [...]

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The European project UPRIGHT intervention kicks off in the Basque Country

By |2018-12-19T10:01:04+01:0019 December 2018|

The “Universal Preventive Resilience Intervention Globally implemented in schools to improve and promote mental Health for Teenagers”, UPRIGHT project funded by the European Commission Horizon 2020 programme is aimed at adolescents from 12 to 14 years of age. This age-group is exposed to multiple factors that may lead to the development of mental health disorders [...]

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Conference on collaborative approach to Multimorbid Patients in Osakidetza

By |2018-12-19T09:52:16+01:0019 December 2018|

On 9 October the conference “Collaborative Approach to Multimorbid Patients in Osakidetza, developed under the European Project ACT@Scale” was held at the Auditorium of the Cruces University Hospital. The aim of Act@Scale European project is to implement, develop and consolidate Good Practices in Integrated Care and Telemonitoring, to promote scaling up and transfer of lessons [...]

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Brussels hosts the closing conference of the SCIROCCO European Project

By |2018-11-21T10:07:06+01:0021 November 2018|

On 24 October, the Closing Conference for the SCIROCCO project was held at the Scotland House Conference Centre in Brussels. After two years of hard work, the SCIROCCO project has validated and proven the SCIROCCO Maturity Model for Integrated Care. The final version was presented to attendees at the closing conference on 24 October 2018 [...]

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Barcelona hosted ACT@Scale project’s 6th general meeting

By |2018-10-25T09:56:59+02:0025 October 2018|

On 2nd and 3rd October, Barcelona has been the venue selected to host the new follow-up meeting for this European project. The ACT@Scale European project began in 2016 and is reaching its conclusion, which is scheduled for February 2019. The consortium, made up of 13 European partners using a collaborative methodology, has worked on the detection [...]

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ADVANTAGE Joint Action holds its second meeting with the project’s Spanish partners

By |2018-07-11T08:40:40+02:0011 July 2018|

The ageing population is one of the most serious challenges that Europe currently faces. Each year, the elderly are at a higher risk of becoming frail and developing disabilities associated with ageing with the resulting loss of quality of life. In this context, the ADVANTAGE JA (Joint Action) was born, co-financed by the Third Health [...]

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Kronikgune present at the EHMA 2018 congress

By |2018-07-11T09:21:16+02:004 July 2018|

Budapest was chosen as the location for the new edition of the EHMA (European Health Management Association) 2018, held from 20 to 22 June. The main theme this year was ‘Making it Happen’. The theme aimed to raise discussions about introducing change and overcoming challenges in policy implementation in healthcare systems. The main topics of [...]

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A delegation from Norrbotten (Sweden) visited the Basque Country to learn about the “Living Wills” Good Practice developed by Araba IHO

By |2018-06-18T12:03:54+02:0018 June 2018|

The work visit took place on 12th and 13th June in the context of the Scirocco European Project The “Scirocco Tool” has been developed within the Scirocco, “SCaling IntegRated Care in COntext” project. This tool enables the multi-dimensional assessment of the maturity of regions for the implementation of integrated care and the analysis of the [...]

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Kronikgune participated in the “on-site visit” organised by the CHRODIS-PLUS Joint Action in Dublin.

By |2018-06-18T12:39:16+02:0013 June 2018|

On 6th and 7th July Italian and Lithuanian partners gained in-depth knowledge of the "Active School Flag" programme implemented in Dublin. The CHRODIS-PLUS Joint Action, with 42 beneficiaries from 20 European countries, aims to support member states in reducing the burden caused by chronic diseases, as well as ensuring the sustainability and response of European [...]

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Kronikgune and Osakidetza presented several European projects at the 10th National Congress of Chronic Patient Healthcare

By |2018-06-04T11:52:49+02:004 June 2018|

A large number of healthcare and social service professionals, healthcare managers and patients met at the 10th National Congress of Chronic Patient Healthcare and the 5th Active Patient National Conference. Zaragoza hosted this event with the slogan “Living together with chronicity”, which intends to make public the day to day activity in primary care practices [...]

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Kronikgune and Osakidetza take part in the third General Assembly of the European Scirocco project.

By |2018-06-04T10:31:29+02:004 June 2018|

Lulea, in Sweden, was chosen to host the meeting for the consortium members. The European project Scirocco, “SCaling IntegRated Care in COntext” aims to provide a validated and proven tool which facilitates the scaling-up and successful transfer of Good Practices, in Integrated Care among European regions. Since the onset, the nine partners taking part in [...]

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Kronikgune, Osakidetza and Bioef presented several research projects at the 18th International Conference on Integrated Care

By |2018-06-01T09:56:20+02:001 June 2018|

From the 23rd to the 25th May 2018, Utrecht (the Netherlands) was the venue chosen to host the most prestigious International Conference on Integrated Care in Europe. Each year, this conference gathers researchers, health professionals and management teams from over 50 countries around the world, dedicated to offering the best provision of integrated care and [...]

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