The program has been developed within the framework of the European project UPRIGHT, whose main objective is to increase the resilience of adolescents. UPRIGHT "Universal Preventive Resilience Intervention Globally implemented in schools to improve and promote mental Health for Teenagers" is a European project funded by the Horizon 2020 program of the European Commission. The [...]
The event will take place next May 18 in two formats, face-to-face in Amerongen (The Netherlands) and virtual, for those who cannot travel due to the measures imposed by COVID-19. The prestigious international organization Value Based Healthcare Center Europe (VBHCE) is organizing this new edition of the "Value-Based Dragons' Grant & Endorsement 2021" awards. These [...]
The EIIMPROVE project, aimed at patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease, will make it possible to implement measurement systems, to organize healthcare practice around clinical processes or conditions, and to calculate the costs per patient during their care. It is estimated that in Spain between 84,000 and 120,000 people are affected by Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), [...]
The workshops, conducted in an online format, were attended by more than 100 participants from seven European countries. COVID-19 has resulted in school closures, quarantines and general social distancing measures to cope with the situation. It has also highlighted the importance of learning resilience-based skills. In this sense, schools in general have shown the interest [...]
The manifesto aims to maximize the accessibility of research results in the fight against COVID-19. Kronikgune Institute for Health Services Research has signed up to the manifesto for research into COVID-19 promoted by the European Union. The text is aimed at entities receiving European funds that wish to join voluntarily. The European Union stresses the [...]
In 2019, the Basque Country and Scotland regions were awarded Reference Sites with four stars and also a special “Recognition of Excellence” by the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP on AHA). This partnership has contributed to transfer knowledge on digital solutions for Active and Healthy Ageing between both regions since 2012. [...]
DigiFest2020 will be held from 1-11 December in an online format. Scotland's largest annual digital health and care event aims to be a space for reflection and learning about digital solutions that deliver better patient care. This year's focus will be on analyzing and learning about digital solutions being implemented in Scotland, UK and internationally [...]
On 9, 16, 23 and 30 September, the International Conference on Integrated Care was held in online format. The new edition of the most prestigious International Conference on Integrated Care in Europe brought together more than 1,000 researchers, healthcare professionals and management teams from 80 countries. Over the course of four thematic days, experiences, projects [...]
The meeting will be held on 19 November from 9 a.m. to 1.30 p.m. CHRODIS PLUS Joint Action, a European project led by the Carlos III Institute of Health, which ends in 2020, has organised an online conference with Spanish stakeholders to disseminate the results obtained in the framework of the project. Under the title, [...]
From 3 to 5 November, the kick off meeting of JADECARE Joint Action was held telematically. María Aguirre, Director of Health Research and Innovation of the Department of Health, welcomed the attendees of the event together with Pilar Aparicio, Director General Directorate of Public Health of the Ministry of Health, and Donata Meroni, Head of [...]
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 [...]
On 6 and 7 October, all members of the consortium met telematically due to the travel restrictions established in the countries by COVID-19. The fifth plenary meeting has served to review the activities carried out in recent months and to identify, discuss, agree and plan the most immediate actions in order to meet the commitments [...]
From 7 to 11 September, the new edition of the congress was held in two modalities, online and in person, in the room set up in the Miramar Palace in Donostia - San Sebastián with limited seating capacity. The new edition of the congress "Digital Health: in times of Covid" organized by the UPV/EHU and [...]
The process has been carried out through the "SCIROCCO tool" which allows the assessment of a region's readiness to provide integrated care. SCIROCCO Exchange aims to support health and social care authorities in adopting and scaling up integrated care in their health systems. The European project seeks to foster customized knowledge transfer between regions and [...]
Early detection of any sign of deterioration in the state of health can be crucial, especially in the case of patients with advanced chronic diseases. ADLIFE (“Integrated personalized care for patients with advanced chronic diseases to improve health and quality of life”) was born from the need to face healthcare challenges when trying to achieve [...]
The UPRIGHT project aims to create a culture of mental well-being for adolescents, their families, and the educational community. During adolescence, teenagers have the chance to acquire different abilities and strategies that will help them better understand themselves, their families, their future, and society. Learning these abilities will increase their resilience levels, while applying them [...]
The meeting was held online on 26 and 27 May 2020 due to the travel restrictions established in European countries because of the COVID-19 global pandemic. Gatekeeper seeks to create an open, standard-based, interoperable, and safe platform offering innovative solutions and a broad selection of digital health services that allow for the improvement of early [...]
Lithuania, Romania, and Luxembourg (the pilot countries of the project) have participated in several activities to implement the CARDIO 50 best practice in their healthcare systems. The Young50 project will transfer the Italian diseases and cardiovascular risks screening model, CARDIO 50, to three European countries: Lithuania, Romania, and Luxembourg. The goal is to implement this [...]
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 [...]
The meeting was held in person from 26 to 28 February at Milton Keynes, Great Britain, and online for those members who could not attend due to travel issues generated by COVID19. The workshop was structured in different parallel sessions where they addressed issues and themes related to the development of the platform, design of [...]
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 [...]
During four years, Kronikgune will coordinate a consortium made up by 11 partners from nine European countries The project’s kick-off meeting was held in Bilbao on 21 and 22 January, with the presence of the Minister of Health of the Basque Government and the participation of over 40 researchers from 9 countries. Nekane Murga highlighted the [...]
This partnership has contributed to transfer knowledge on innovative solutions for Active and Healthy Ageing between both regions. In 2019, the Basque Country was awarded a Reference Sites with four stars and was also granted the “recognition of excellence” by the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP on AHA). The European Commission [...]
The event was held on 27 November in Brussels. For three years the ADVANTAGE JA (Joint Action) has worked on establishing a shared European framework to face the challenge of frailty, one of the main factors associated to disability in the elderly population. The establishment of a shared framework of understanding strives to create a [...]
From 20 to 23 November 2019, Marseille (France) hosted the European Public Health Association (EUPHA) conference. This 12the edition was held under the title: “Building bridges for solidarity and public health” and gathered the European professional and scientific Public Health community. Public health professionals are a very diverse community and building bridges with professionals from [...]
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 [...]
On 7 November 2019 the Health Evaluation and Quality Agency of Catalonia, AQuAS, in Barcelona was the chosen site to hold this event. Under the title "Towards research that impacts society", the session focused on the impact that research has on our society and the tools that enable us to improve it. Dr. José [...]
The start-up meeting took place in Madrid from 23 to 25 October. The Gatekeeper consortium includes 43 partners from 13 Member States, featuring technological companies, research institutes or universities, healthcare suppliers and European and international networks focusing on technological innovation. Kronikgune, Osakidetza and Biocruces Bizkaia will represent the Basque Country. Funded by the Horizon 2020 [...]
From 23 to 25 October, the Kursaal Congress Centre in Donostia-San Sebastián was the venue of the National Congress held by AKEB, the Basque Association for Care Quality. The motto for this edition was “Generating value in healthcare. Challenges and commitments”, which sought to share the work values in care quality, improvement processes and security [...]
The meeting was held on 23 and 24 October in Kôsice, Slovakia. SCIROCCO Exchange aims to support health and social care authorities to adopt and scale-up integrated care within their healthcare systems. Fourteen partners from nine European regions are the members of this consortium (Germany, Flanders, Basque Country, Slovakia, Slovenia, Vilna, Poland and Puglia), which [...]
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