JA PRISM begins its journey to transform mental health in Europe Biosistemak is organising the kick-off meeting for the project on 24 and 25 September in Bilbao. The European project JA PRISM (Prevention-oriented Rights-based Approach to Support Mental Health in Vulnerable Population Groups) has officially begun its journey with the aim of improving mental [...]
This project is being developed within the framework of the Horizon 2020 programme, promoted and funded by the European Commission. Gatekeeper project main objective is to harness the full potential of new technologies, such as the Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence and Big Data, to improve healthcare services associated with the most common chronic diseases [...]
Osakidetza is one of seven health systems that will deploy ADLIFE digital solutions to improve the quality of life of patients with advanced chronic diseases. ADLIFE, Integrated personalized care for patients with advanced chronic diseases to improve health and quality of life, is a European research project funded by the European Commission under the Horizon [...]
Health systems are transforming towards more integrated and person-centered care through empowerment and shared decision making. Health systems have begun to implement the new perspective of value-based care. The evaluation of healthcare services should not be based on the measurement of the services provided, but on the outcomes they achieve, where it is taken into [...]
The online workshop was held on 8th of October and was attended by more than 30 people from the Basque Health ecosystem. Active and healthy ageing is the process of developing and maintaining a level of functional capacity that makes it possible to achieve well-being in old age. Functional capacity is understood as the set [...]
The general assembly was meant to be held in Bilbao. However, due to the European travel restrictions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, this meeting was held on 2 April online by videoconference. YOUNG50 seeks to promote the prevention of CVD and detect the cardiovascular risk of people over 50 years of age. The project framework [...]
Bilbao Exhibition Centre (BEC) in Barakaldo, the Kronikgune headquarters, hosted the meeting of the nine project partners on 4 and 5 February. At this meeting the attendees undertook a complete revision of the tasks and milestones of the past months and shared the experiences of each of this intervention’s pilots. UPRIGHT (Universal Preventive Resilience [...]
The meeting was held on 6 and 7 November in the city of Padua, Italy. YOUNG50 is a project co-funded by the Third EU Health Programme. It seeks to extend the good practices CARDIO50 for prevention, which was implemented in Italy, to regions in Lithuania, Romania and Luxembourg. This study started at the beginning of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
You may access it for free on the project’s official website. The Handbook gathers the experiences and results of the three-year study. It intends to spread knowledge and share the experiences of the regions participating in the study of good practices in integrated care and telemonitoring. These Good Practices are aimed at patients suffering from [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
On 28 and 29 August 2018, the city of Reykjavik (Iceland) hosted the first meeting between the seven partners forming the UPRIGHT consortium. 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 the resilience [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
On 24th and 25th April representatives from the University of the Basque Country, Matía Foundation and Bidasoatik Mundura programme visited the cities of Amsterdam and Almere. This visit to the Netherlands was organised under the Interreg Europe, Translation, Innovation & Technology Transfer in Ageing Network (TITTAN) project. The project, launched two years ago, aims to [...]
The TITTAN Project has celebrated its second year looking for the improvement of the quality of health systems through innovative products and services in the field of active and healthy ageing with the exchange and implementation of good practices among different European regions. The four-and-a-half-year project TITTAN (Network for Technology, Innovation and Translation in Ageing) [...]
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