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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.
Invited by Vaccines Europe, on 14 November Active Citizenship Network joined the EU Elections cocktail, organized at the European Parliament from 18:30-20:00 (CEST) by Vaccines Europe and kindly hosted by MEP Nicolás González Casares.
14 November 2023 | 16:30 – 18:00
Room ASP 5G305 | European Parliament, Brussels
On 14 November, Cittadinanzattiva-Active Citizenship Network organized, at the European Parliament in Brussels, the in-person conference"Prioritizing care for high-risk COVID-19 patients in the EU: policy recommendations", kindly hosted by MEP Brando Benifei (S&D) with the support of the MEPs Interest Group "European Patients' Rights & Cross-Border Healthcare".
On 14 November, Cittadinanzattiva-Active Citizenship Network is organizing the in-person conference"Prioritizing care for high-risk COVID-19 patients in the EU: policy recommendations", kindly hosted by MEP Brando Benifei (S&D) with the support of the MEPs Interest Group "European Patients' Rights & Cross-Border Healthcare", that will be held at the European Parliament in Brussels, from 16:30 to 18:00 CET, in room ASP 5G305.
Cittadinanzattiva-Active Citizenship Network, member of the EU-funded project BioReCer consortium, is glad to invite you to the first multi-stakeholder meeting of this multi-annual project. On 13 November 2023 from 15:00 to 17:00 CET an interactive online event will be held with members of the Biological Resources Stakeholder Platform (BRSP). If you are not yet a member or BRSP, please register here.
The Director of Active Citizenship Network has been invited to join an in-person EU workshop, in Brussels, to collaboratively create a European Migraine Action Plan, putting forward concrete and tangible policy recommendations to improve migraineurs’ lives.
The initiative brought together leaders from the European Migraine and Headache Alliance (EMHA), the European Brain Council (EBC), the European Federation of Neurological Associations (EFNA), the European Patients Forum (EPF), the Migraine Trust, Cittadinanzattiva-Active Citizenship Network (ACN), the European Institute of Women's Health (EIWH) Hoofdstuk and GAMIAN Europe.
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