Active Citizenship Network is delighted to invite you to our upcoming institutional event"Strengthening vaccination policies towards the European elections: from recommendations to concrete experiences", which will be held at the European Parliament in Brussels on 14 February 2024 from 10:30 to 12:00 in room ASP 3H1. As Europe approaches elections, there's a crucial need to highlight concrete actions in vaccination policies and this insightful session - kindly hosted by MEP Beatrice Covassi (S&D) with the support of the MEPs Interest Group “European Patients' Rights and Cross-border Healthcare” - aims to present activities carried out in the field of vaccination policies by different stakeholders, including civil society organizations, the private sector, European project consortia, etc. in order to promote the importance of vaccinations and the need for effective communication strategies. To know more, please click here and here.
Invited by its long-standing Polish partner, Instytut Praw Pacjenta i Edukacji Zdrowotnej-Institute for Patients’ Rights & Health Education, the director of Active Citizenship Network has been invited to participate as a panellist in the 18th Patients' Organisation Forum, organized - as in previous years - by the Institute, in connection with the World Patients’ Day.To know more, click here.
With the aim of deepening and sharing the topic of “active citizens in Europe advocate for vaccination”, the director of Active Citizenship Network has been invited to participate in the European seminar on vaccination hesitancy organized by the Cyprus University of Technology on 17 January from 08:30 to 14:30 (local time). For further information, please download his presentation and the programme.
Despite the benefits posed by adult vaccination, shingles immunisation programmes across Europe remain undervalued and underutilised. In line with our commitment on the topic, the Director of Active Citizenship Network joined the roundtable discussion on the International Longevity Centre UK’s (official partner of ACN), forthcoming report on shingles vaccination across Europe. Read more.
The Italian Presidency of the G7 provides an important opportunity for renewed political commitments to tackling AMR. At the start of a promising year for global progress on antimicrobial resistance (AMR), the Wellcome Trust and CARB-X organized a high-level lunch roundtable with the distinguished presence of the Italian Minister of Health, Orazio Schillaci. The luncheon took place on 10 January 2024 from 12:30 to 14:30 in Rome, at the Terrazza Borromini, Via di Santa Maria dell'Anima 30, next to Piazza Navona.
The Responsible of the EU Affairs of Cittadinanzattiva and Director of Active Citizenship Network was officially invited and involved in the discussion.
Cittadinanzattiva, official ambassador of the European Citizens' Initiative, has been invited by the European Commission to join other ECI ambassadors and national contact points at the latest meet-up. These meetings are informal and involve a peer-to-peer exchange, with brief updates shared by the Commission and an invitation to participants to share questions, ideas, etc. To learn more about recent initiatives promoted within the network, please watch the ECI video competition for schools, download the educational toolkit available in all EU languages, and visit the FB group.
Within the framework of the #VaccinAction2023 EU project, Active Citizenship Network held on the 14th of December 2023 the II online training event titled “The value that vaccines bring in the AMR fight and why new-generation antibiotics alone cannot resolve the AMR crisis”.
The initiative consisted of a 1,5-hour free of charge training seminar (if you missed it, see the recording here) opened to leaders of civic and patient associations from different countries and focused on the essential role of vaccines in combating Antimicrobial resistance (AMR), exploring the question of "why new-generation antibiotics alone cannot effectively address the AMR crisis."
Cittadinanzattiva-Active Citizenship Network, member of the EU-funded ENGAGE project consortium, invites non profit organizations and all the relevant stakeholders based in Brussels to the final event of the project. The event will take place in Brussels on November 23rd, 2023 at Transforma Evere - Av. Jules Bordet 13, 1140 Evere.
The overall theme of this event is to highlight tools, technologies, and strategies that can be employed to enhance the involvement of citizens in the processes of preparing for, responding to, and recovering from nature derived and man-made disasters.
Active Citizenship Network participated in the panel of the inaugural members’ summit of the Coalition for Life course Immunisation (CLCI), realized on November 2023 in Spain in collaboration with the Balmis Institute for Vaccines. For the occasion, the Director of Active Citizenship Network presented a speech titled “What have we learned from the pandemic: The Quality Charter of the Vaccination Services".
Cittadinanzattiva-Active Citizenship Network is organizing a European training seminar on the topic of intimate health conditions (incontinence, stomia, etc.) in Brussels on 17 November from 14:30 to 18:00.
The initiative is addressed to the representatives and leaders of Patients Advocacy Groups (PAGs) working at local, national and European levels for the protection of patients' rights and is part of the European project “Overcoming new challenges for advocacy of people with intimate health conditions in Europe” promoted by Cittadinanzattiva-Active Citizenship Network and F.A.I.S.-Federation of Incontinent and Ostomised Associations, a non-profit organisation that groups the regional voluntary associations in favour of incontinent and ostomised people in Italy - with the aim of giving more attention to the sensitive issues related to this topic.