The event took place on 24 October at the facilities of EUREGHA - European Regional and Local Health Authorities in Brussels. The goal of this session was to debate how to contribute to the “Welfare economy” by developing the social and emotional abilities of European children and teenagers, through the support of the schools and [...]
The meeting took place on 1 October at Fundación Cajasol in Seville. ADVANTAGE JA (Joint Action) aims to prevent frailty. 34 institutions are taking part in this project which is coordinated by Spain, specifically by Getafe University Hospital run by Madrid's Public Health Service. A common European framework has been established in the project in [...]
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 [...]
The conference will take place in Amadria Park Convention Centre, Šibenik, Croatia from 27-29 April 2020. The International Foundation of Integrated Care (IFIC) in partnership with the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Croatia, the City of Zagreb, Health Center Zagreb - Centar, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, University of Zagreb, Libertas International [...]
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 [...]
The congress focused on the reaffirmation of social work in the transformation of healthcare systems and took place from 2 to 6 September 2019 in Dubrovnik, Croatia. “The Breakthrough of the Social” gathered health and social services professionals and managers and researchers to discuss the role of social work. Issues connected with the theory and [...]
The stay of the Ugandan researcher in Kronikgune has been supported thanks to the collaboration of the Provincial Council of Bizkaia and the Women for Africa Foundation, through their programmes “Bizkaia Koopera” and "Ellas Investigan”. SAICO, Scorecard for Continuous Assessment and Improvement of Programmes on Integrated Care for multimorbid patients, is a project carried out [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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: [...]
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 [...]
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) [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
On 25 October 2018 the 6th Conference of the Health Services in Chronic Disease Research Network (REDISSEC) took place in the Ernest Lluch Hall at the Carlos III Health Institute. The conference revolved around research in implementation in the context of healthcare. The aim is to work with healthcare decision-makers to work out how to [...]
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 [...]
Kronikgunek will participate in the "Adinberri. Kronikgune will participate in the "Adinberri, Retos y Oportunidades del Envejecimiento Saludable en Gipuzkoa" (Adinberri, Challenges and Opportunities for Healthy Ageing in Gipuzkoa) congress, which will take place on 22 and 23 November in Donostia-San Sebastian. For more information, please visit the event’s official site. https://www.gipuzkoa.eus/es/web/etorkizunaeraikiz/congreso-adinberri
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