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 [...]
The visit, framed within the Scirocco European project, took place on 4 and 5 September in Glasgow and Edinburgh. The Scirocco European project (http://www.scirocco-project.eu/), which ends on 20 November 2018, aims to provide a validated and proven tool to facilitate the successful scaling-up of integrated care Good Practices in different European regions (“Scirocco Tool”). This [...]
On 27th and 28th June, the city of Edinburgh, Scotland, was the venue for the latest meeting of the European project's consortium. The European Scirocco project, “SCaling IntegRated Care in COntext”, which has been running for 27 months of a total of 32, seeks the development and validation of a tool that, analysing the context, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Istanbul (Turkey) was the venue selected to hold the forth general meeting, gathering the 12 partners of the C3-Cloud consortium. From 7 to 9 May the progress of the project was reviewed and the actions to be carried out in the coming months were specified in order to prepare for the deployment of the C3-Cloud [...]
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) [...]
On 13th and 14th March, Bilbao has been the venue selected to host the new follow-up meeting for this European project. The European project ACT@Scale aims to scale-up good practices in Integrated Care and Telemonitoring. With this in mind, the Consortium, made up of 13 European partners, is implementing a collaborative methodology to detect and [...]
From 27th February to 1st March, Brussels became the meeting point for European regions and market leaders, to review the Action Plans of the Action Groups and the Reference Site Collaboration Network (RSCN). The European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing, (EIP on AHA), led by the European Commission, aims to improve European competition [...]
This report aims to highlight frailty as one of the public health priorities and provide information on how healthcare systems should plan prevention and frailty management. Demographic ageing is one of the major priorities and challenges faced by the European Union (EU) and its Member States (MS). Elderly people are at a higher risk of [...]
From 13th to 14th February, Treviso (Italy) was the host selected for this workshop. The CHRODIS-PLUS Joint Action was launched in September 2017 to address the burden caused by chronic diseases, as well as ensuring sustainability and response from European healthcare systems. To this end, a total of 42 beneficiaries from 20 European countries are [...]
Kronikgune and Osakidetza, the Basque Health Service, have offered their experience in the use of this methodology in the Basque Country. The collaborative methodology, based on continual improvement cycles (PDSA- Plan, Do, Study, Act), is an increasingly popular procedure in healthcare systems. This method guides multidisciplinary teams in the detection of areas of improvement of [...]
From 5 to 7 February 2018, the participating regions gathered in Dresden, Germany, for the fifth workshop and another visit. The seven partners of TITTAN, Network for Technology, Innovation and Translation in Ageing consortium, attended the fifth workshop, which was aimed at exchanging new knowledge and Good Practices. The workshop was part of Subject Area [...]
The integrated care model for multimorbid patients was designed as part of the Carewell project, led in Europe by the Research Centre on Chronicity Kronikgune. The Go Health Awards were held for the first time on 18 January 2018, promoted by ICON Group, San Pablo CEU University and PMFarma. The event took place at San [...]
Kronikgune is the European project coordinator and leads a consortium made up of seven European partners. The kick-off meeting of the new European project, UPRIGHT, will be held in Bilbao on 16th and 17th January 2018. Funded by the European Commission's Horizon 2020 programme, the study will last for 48 months. UPRIGHT, “Universal Preventive [...]
On 14th and 15Th December, the Basque Country received the visit of representatives from Almere (The Netherlands) and Lower Silesia (Poland) regions, to gain in-depth knowledge of the Good Practices carried out in the Basque Country. This visit was organised under the Interreg Europe, Translation, Innovation & Technology Transfer in Ageing Network (TITTAN) project. The [...]
The review assessed tasks performed during the first 18 months of the project, analysed any opportunities for improvement and defined specific actions to be carried out in forthcoming months. On 8th December, the partners of C3-Cloud Consortium travelled to Brussels to attend the first project review with the European Commission. The aims of the meeting [...]
In November the project Grant Agreement was signed with the European Commission. The new European project, "Universal Preventive Resilience Intervention Globally implemented in schools to improve and promote mental Health for Teenagers”, (UPRIGHT) will kick off on 1st January 2018 and will last for 48 months. This study aims to promote mental well-being while preventing [...]
In 2017, a series of meetings have been held between the European Reference Regions with the aim of fostering the deployment of innovative solutions for active and healthy ageing. “Scale AHA” is an initiative of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP on AHA). It seeks to promote scaling-up, deployment and implementation [...]
This workshop took place on 21st November in Glasgow in the context of the Scottish Digital Health and Care Week, the European Week of Regions and Cities, and the initiative Reflecting on Europe by the European Committee of the Regions. The event attracted public policy-makers, healthcare professionals, representatives of social care, housing and voluntary sectors, [...]
On 28th November this reflection and dialogue session was held in Granada. During the session the challenges to be addressed to personalise integrated care were assessed. The aim of the 6th OPIMEC Forum 2017 was to provide professionals with a forum for reflection, to share experiences and analyse basic tools to promote health care focused [...]
On 23rd November, the Europa Congress Palace in Vitoria-Gasteiz has hosted the fourth edition of this conference, which is gaining more and more importance among professionals from different fields. Good Practices (GP) are understood to be interventions or experiences that have proven to be effective and can be transferred within the healthcare system and in [...]
From 19 to 24 October, the headquarters of “Technopolis City of Athens” in Athens, was the chosen location for the new edition of the eHealth Forum. The conference is an annual meeting point for health professionals, managers, researchers, management teams, social and healthcare representatives, and technological companies alike. This year’s mission was the search of [...]
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