Empowering Young Patients (EYP) is a 24-month project funded by the Commission’s Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme (CERV) under the call ‘Rights of the child and children’s participation’. In response to the challenges children and adolescents face in hospital settings, EYP seeks to promote their inclusion and participation in civic life within hospitals.

The project kicked off activities in January 2025. For the next two years, five partners (Junior Achievement – Italy, Project School, Action Aid – Italy, Officine Buone, and HOPE) will work to benchmark best practices in participative processes involving young patients, develop educational resources (particularly fostering life and civic skills) for children undergoing long-term care, promote policy dialogues and advocacy, and build communities of knowledge.

HOPE will support various tasks, including conducting a needs analysis at the EU level, stakeholder outreach, drafting policy recommendations, and communications activities.

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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values programme under grant agreement no. 101190329.

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The inaugural meeting of the KEEPCARING project consortium, led by Amsterdam University Medical Centers (AUMC) and involving 20 partners, took place in July 2024.  The project’s objective is to (re-)build the wellbeing and resilience of healthcare workers in European hospitals in the surgical pathways, and to promote onboarding and retention by systematically researching factors and signals of job stress and novel mitigating solutions. Using a co-creation approach, a multi-faceted solution package (non-digital, digital, and AI-supported) will be developed to prevent burnout among (aspirant) healthcare professionals on the individual, team, and organisational level. Stress is the biggest factor attributing to burnout among hospital healthcare workers.

KEEPCARING is a 4-year project financed by the Horizon Europe Framework Programme further to the call HORIZON-HLTH-2023-CARE-04 ‘Resilience and Mental Wellbeing of the Health and Care workforce project’. The consortium is composed of leading universities, hospitals, research organisations, SMEs offering digital solutions, and European associations representing hospitals and healthcare workers.

HOPE’s role will be to support tasks around dissemination, communication and stakeholder engagement including the definition of an effective strategy and framework and key messages for different target groups. Alliances and collaborations will be formed with stakeholders including policymakers, employers, social partners, CSOs,  technology providers, scientific, medical, and student communities. Focus groups and external experts will be involved in the definition of the most suitable sustainability and exploitation strategy.

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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 101137244.

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FLASH, a 4-year project funded by Horizon Europe, held its inaugural meeting on 13 and 14 February 2023 in Verona, Italy. The kick-off meeting was hosted by the Università degli Studi di Verona, the project coordinators.

One of the lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic is the importance of flexibility in the funding and organisation of health systems. European countries responded quickly to this extreme event, by expanding the number of financial resources available for health care and reallocating financial and human resources. However, there are several other challenges for healthcare systems that require efficient and flexible financing mechanisms to be successfully addressed.

FLASH will undertake a comprehensive analysis of healthcare financing mechanisms in Europe and, by employing a wide range of methodological approaches, it aims to provide evidence for the ability of current financing mechanisms and contracts to address such challenges and to study solutions that may yield more effective, efficient, and equitable health care systems.

The project brings together 16 partners (including HOPE) from 9 European countries and it intends to be a game-changer in the European integrated healthcare system. The consortium includes universities, research centres, non-profit organisations, and institutions involved in the organisation and provision of healthcare in several European countries. HOPE will contribute mainly to dissemination- and policy-related tasks.

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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 101095424.

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On 26 January 2023 DIOPTRA, a Horizon Europe project, kicked off in Athens and online. Over the next four years, HOPE will be part of the 28-partner project consortium coordinated by the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS), which focuses on early dynamic screening for colorectal cancer (CRC).

Statistics show that colorectal cancer is the third most common tumour in men and the second in women, accounting for 10% of all tumours worldwide. It ranks second in cancer-related deaths at 9.4%, after lung cancer. While CRC is now considered to be a highly preventable disease, several factors, such as long waiting times for colonoscopies, a lack of robust infrastructure for sample analysis, and patient-related barriers (such as fear, socio-demographic, psychosocial, economic, or geographic) deter systematic monitoring and follow-up.

In this context, DIOPTRA aspires to become a driving force in creating change in colorectal cancer screening and everyday medical practice through accessible and non-invasive risk estimation, employing straightforward liquid biopsies to stratify citizens in need of a definitive assessment. Via DIOPTRA, screening and early detection may become faster, more precise, personalised, accessible, and affordable, breaking the path to better health.

Against the backdrop of taxing procedures hindering citizens from seeking screening on a scheduled basis and the lack of EU-wide standardised screening, DIOPTRA aims to introduce a front-line clinical decision support tool that will consider risk factors and protein biomarkers to aid the identification of high-risk cases in actual need of a colonoscopy.

The DIOPTRA consortium consists of 28 partners from 15 countries, including universities (medical and technical), clinical partners such as hospitals, companies specialised in innovation, AI, data security, legal aspects, and biological data analysis, policymakers, and a European organisation (HOPE). Our role will consist in supporting the project’s dissemination, communication, and policy aims.

DIOPTRA website: https://www.dioptra-project.eu/.

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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 101096649.

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The first formal meeting in preparation for Joint Action 3 on HTA (as put forward in the 2015 Work Programme of the EU Health Programme) took place on October 15, 2015 in Brussels. The meeting was organised by the HTA Network Secretariat (DG SANTE). More than sixty organisations from 27 Member States and Norway were nominated by their respective Ministries of Health to participate in the final joint action on HTA, which aimed at defining and implementing a sustainable mechanism for the scientific and technical cooperation on HTA in Europe.

The JA3 proposal was developed by a consortium of nominated partners and delivered to the Commission (CHAFEA) by December 17, 2015. EUnetHTA JA3 is built on JA1 and JA2, and it has fed into the latest iteration: EUnetHTA 21.

JA3 concluded in 2021.

Website: http://www.eunethta.eu.

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