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 [...]
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