The Mission Board on Vaccination in Europe (MBVE) is a multi-disciplinary, multi-stakeholder thought leadership group established in 2023 under the chairmanship of Professor Walter Ricciardi. It has adopted a “mission approach” to the strengthening of immunisation systems across Europe.
MBVE is a pan-European collaboration, comprising multi-disciplinary academic experts, healthcare and public health professionals, civil society organisations (including Active Citizenship Network) and patient group representatives, as well as Vaccines Europe. Academics participating in the work include public health experts, vaccinologists, and health economists from Austria, Belgium, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, and Spain.
The key role of HCPs for a healthier Europe
Combining the protection of patients' rights with skills shortage,
medical desertification and job strain
20 March 2024 | 16:30 – 18:30
Room ASP 3H1 | European Parliament, Brussels
PROGRAMME
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We're looking for you to share your thoughts on an important initiative! Public and patient engagement plays a critical role in shaping the future of healthcare and research, particularly in preventing chronic diseases. We're excited to introduce you to PROPHET, an EU-funded project focusing on personalized prevention. Personalized prevention tailors healthcare interventions based on individual characteristics, combining factors such as genetics and lifestyle. PROPHET aims to gather insights from patients and citizens like yourself to optimize engagement in personalized prevention. For these reasons, we would like to invite you to participate in an (online) group discussion to share your unique perspective and experience.
14 February 2024 | 10:30 – 12:00
Room Spinelli 3H1 | European Parliament, Brussels
Programme
Knowing your territory is fundamental, it means awareness, it means being prepared for risk. Knowledge of the territory is a form of prevention in an extended form. It means being capable of a greater response, less conditioned by improvisation and the unexpected. Click to watch episode 1, episode 2 and episode 3 in the English subtitled version. To know more, click here.
As part of the exploitation activities carried out and promoted by Cittadinanzattiva within the EU-funded NUDGE project, four articles were published by the media partner Innovation News Network. To read them, click here: A – B – C -D.
They will also be included, along with other content, in a special issue entitled "Exploiting behavioral insights for energy transition" that will be published in the coming months.
Here is the video, produced as a follow-up to events held in Brussels in October and November.
In addition, Cittadinanzattiva has applied to realize a policy session - in the context of European Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW) 2024 - entitled "Fostering EU citizen action for the energy transition: from recommendations to concrete experiences."
The Kick-off meeting of the EU4Health funded co-OPERATOR consortium, in which Cittadinanzattiva-Active Citizenship Network is officially involved, was held on January 17 and 18, 2024, at the Cyprus University of Technology in Limassol. We look forward to the synergies, research evidence, and initiatives that will take place over the next three years that will enable the development of a virtual observatory for the country to share best practices in immunization promotion and build a healthier future!
The meeting was preceded by the conference "Insight into vaccination hesitancy," where the director of Active Citizenship Network discussed the theme "Active citizens in Europe advocate for vaccination." Read more and watch the video.
BioReCer aims to ensure the environmental performance and traceability of biological waste feedstock used by the bio-based industries (forestry, agriculture, fisheries, waste-water), deploying guidelines to strengthen the current certification schemes. Daniela Quaggia from Cittadinanzattiva APS answered questions about why stakeholder involvement is indispensable for the success of BioReCer and why stakeholders profit from their participation in the project's stakeholders platform. Read more
We are thrilled to share the success of the first annual stakeholders meeting for the Biological Resources Certifications Schemes (BioReCer) project that took place online on 13 November 2023. During this engaging event - promoted by ACN - stakeholders from the BioReCer Stakeholders Platform (BRSP) gained valuable insights into the results and ongoing developments of the project. The discussions included a deep dive into material flows of #biobased #waste #biomass and sustainability indicators for the respective value chains. BioReCer aims to assess and complement current certification schemes for biological resources in alignment with the new EU sustainability goals, enhancing bio-based circular systems (read more on these factsheets in different languages). If you're interested in becoming a stakeholder and contributing to these discussions, register here for the BioResources Stakeholders Platform (BRSP). If you missed this event but are eager to join future discussions and stay informed about upcoming events, we invite you to visit BioReCer website.
Every year 900,000 people die prematurely in the EU due to disease risk factors that can be prevented through a shift from the treatment of established diseases to a “person-centered” disease prevention and early diagnosis practice. Although prevention is nowadays a high priority at EU level, personalised preventive strategies are not as widely used as other personalised medicine approaches. To address this gap, as consortium member of PROPHET, we invite you to participate in a survey about the perceived barriers, challenges and enablers for the adoption of personalised prevention strategies in EU and beyond. You can access the survey here.