Organized by HealthTech For Care, partner of Active Citizenship Network, the HealthTech Innovation Days (HTID®) brought together 750 participants on 24 and 25 October in Paris, and remotely on 27 October, including researchers, public players, industry leaders, patient associations, patients, investors and entrepreneurs. French and European governmental institutions once again strongly supported the event. Read more
Cittadinanzattiva-Active Citizenship Network participated in the 1st meeting of the AMR multi-stakeholder partnership platform established by FAO, UNEP, WHO and WOAH. The platform is an inclusive entity, bringing together actors to help preserve antimicrobials as life-saving medicines and ensure their responsible use.
In this first in-person meeting, members of the AMR Multi-Stakeholder Partnership Platform gathered at FAO headquarters in Rome on 15-16 November 2023 for the inaugural Plenary Assembly. Open to all Platform members, this event laid the foundation for collective action on AMR. One session was dedicated to the presentation of Action Groups' proposals and exchange with members, such as the one on "Addressing the antibacterial pipeline and access crisis" also promoted by Cittadinanzattiva-ACN. Read more.
On 5 December, the European Commission adopted the EU4Health 2024 work programme to implement key EU health policy priorities within the framework of the European Health Union. The budget of €752.4 million will boost its development and provide funding to address important health issues across the EU. "Civil society has a crucial role to play in reaching out to our citizens," said Stella Kyriakides, Commissioner for Health and Food Safety. To strengthen the important role of civil organisations in the implementation of EU health policies, the EU4Health programme will continue to award operational grants of €9 million in 2024 and will launch a call for Framework Partnership Agreements for 2025-2026. Read more
Active Citizenship Network signed an official Memorandum of Understanding with HealthTech For Care. HealthTech For Care is designed to support and promote access to healthcare for all, and it is the promoter of “HealthTech For Patients”, a European conference that places the patient at the heart of medical innovation. Thanks to this agreement, Active Citizenship Network reinforced its contacts in France, because HealthTech For Care is a non-profit organization supported by its founder France Biotech and the network of French health clusters. To know more, click here.
The Italian Forum on Inequality and Diversity (ForumDD), an alliance of active citizens’ organizations and academic and institutional research, launched the "Health as Common Good" documentary and campaignin support of the proposal to create a pan-European public Research & Development infrastructure and drug delivery organization. The aim of the campaign is both to bring to the attention of MEPs the need to truly learn from the Pandemic in the EU's commitment to public research and to raise awareness among all citizens on such p crcial issue. We are inviting people to sign a petition in support of the proposal, submitted to the European Parliament in September 2022, and first advanced by the Forum on Inequality and Diversity in 2019 in a public Report as part of 15 proposals for social justice.
Active Citizenship Network signed an official Memorandum of Understanding with the Universidad del Paciente y la Familia, an innovative academic center that offers accredited education to patients, families, caregivers and volunteers, in Spain and South America. This is possible thanks to the collaborations from professionals, universities, scientific societies and patient organizations. Its main mission is the empowerment of patients through education, to ensure active participation in decision-making processes in health and the improvement of the patient experience. To know more, click here.
With the support of Active Citizenship Network, the Greek Patients’ Association is looking for a potential partners interested interested in submitting a project proposal focused on the promotion of EU values and fundamental rights. The European Commission launched the new call for proposals under the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values programme, whose main objective is to promote the participation and contribution of citizens and representative associations to the democratic and civic life of the European Union by making known and publicly exchanging their views in all areas on Union action.
Active Citizenship Network is glad to officially endorse the “Manifesto for Women's Health” drafted by the European Institute of Women’s Health (EIWH), an association who advocates for women’s health and gender equality across the healthcare continuum. EIWH calls on the EU to commit to the reduction of health inequalities and provide equitable health for all women, through the provision of an EU Strategy for Women’s Health.
Active Citizenship Network is happy to share with you all the activities of a new EU project focused on continuing to support strengthening adult vaccination in Europe. The idea is to enhance the collaboration with different healthcare players and the importance of community confidence on the value of immunization, always involving citizens’ and patients’ associations across Europe to learn more about and implement vaccination policies. With the involvement of key experts, tailored focus groups will be realized in Italy, France and Spain, to dicuss the importance of life course vaccination, including lessons learned from Covid-19, barriers to vaccine access, options to choose between different vaccines and possible changes to the annual vaccination calendar.
In occasion of the “Europe's Tomorrow: Vaccination and Prevention Summit” held by ThinkYoung on 28 June 2028 in Bruxelles at the Museum of Natural Sciences, Cittadinanzattiva/Active Citizenship Network has been invited to share for the first time at the EU level the the results of civic monitoring activity of 147 vaccination centres across Italy and the Quality Charter of the Vaccination Services promoted in Italy in 2022.