On March 25th EHFF attended the second planning group meeting for the EPF Patient Empowerment Conference which will take place in Brussels on May 20/1. The planning group includes a number of EHFF colleagues and partners. The Conference is supported by the Robert Bosch Foundation. A presentation, describing the current rationale and expected outputs of…
EHFF has been a collaborating partner in this Joint Action since its inception in April 2013. We work closely with CfWI the lead for WP6, horizon scanning .Although we attended and contributed at the meeting in Rome last December, our visit to this meeting had to be cancelled at the last minute. Herewith is a…
This meeting, attended by more than 1200 participants over two days at the Brussels Square venue. The full programme is here. A summary of key presentations with hyperlinks can be found on the Commission website: http://ec.europa.eu/research/innovation-union/index_en.cfm?section=active-healthy-ageing&pg=2015-summit The Referenced Site Collaborative Network pilot with the Empathie network (for history, see Empathie network page) showcased their work…
In order to develop the 2015 strategic plan, 22 members of the EHFF core community met for the day at a Gatwick hotel, with another 7 attending part of the day via Skype. A further 19 core members sent their apologies. Although some attendees knew each other well, for some it was an opportunity of…
EHFF attended this interesting event, nested within the much larger GMSA Mobile World Congress, as a guest of the organisers (both organisations being EHFF partners). The full programme is here. In such a rich programme, we have to select material. The first is from Barcelona city, potentially an exciting project on connecting elderly residents to…
Further to our announcement last July that EHFF was part of the winning consortium for this DG-SANCO tender on the promotion of self-care in minor and self-limiting conditions, which involves constructing guidelines related to promoting self-care in common conditions but also setting up a multi-stakeholder platform of experts to advise in this area on an…
David Grim attended on behalf of EHFF and his report includes the links below to the work packages from which EHFF is a collaborating partner. David Grim report Chrodis JA, Brussels Feb.19th Progress on: WP 4 WP 5 WP 6 WP 7
Minutes of the Coordinators’ group conference call Objectives of the call: – To officially constitute the group of coordinators of “Patient/User Empowerment Synergies” accord EIP-AHA Action Groups (AGs) – To agree on a collaboration method, including logistics – To identify initial specific actions/activities Prior to this conference call there have been two meetings on synergies…
Conference on improving planning methodologies, Rome 4/5 December 2014 Held as part of the Italian Presidency programme, this conference allowed a review of progress in the Joint Action on health workforce planning since it was launched in the Spring of 2013. EHFF has played a role as a collaborating partner in the JA but also…
About 300 representatives of the action areas and reference sites met in Brussels for the day on Dec. 1st 2014. The agenda can be downloaded here. In essence the meeting ‘taking stock and focusing on delivery’ involved presentations of the progress made by the six Action Groups during 2014 and discussion of the ‘scaling-up strategy’.…