The provisions of the Clean Energy Package have paved the way for a new, more active role of prosumers and energy communities in the electricity market. Innovative tools and tailored solutions should be developed and tested in order to fully enable new types of interaction between citizens as consumers, prosumers and (members of) energy communities and foster participation in energy (in particular electricity) markets. To reach these goals, the following call for Horizon projects has been launched:
Despite low flu circulation in the past year, mainly due to the sanitary restrictions enforced during the COVID-19 pandemic, world leading experts are warning about severe challenges in our ability to predict the epidemiology of the upcoming flu season. As societies are opening up, the risk of a severe flu season is high. It is more important than ever before that flu vaccination campaigns are strengthened, especially to protect vulnerable populations. In this regard, last 14 October 2021 MEP Dolors Montserrat and the Steering Group on Influenza Vaccination, with the support of Vaccines Europe, hosted a webinar to mark the EU Flu Day 2021, entitled “One voice to protect populations from flu in the age of COVID-19".
In the occasion of the EU Flu Day 2021, the Steering Group on Influenza Vaccination, of which Active Citizenship is a part of, has realized a Joint Statement on the importance of healthcare professionals’ (HCP) vaccination with the aim to highlight the importance of strengthened efforts at the EU level to ensure healthcare professionals across Europe are protected in the very unpredictable influenza season ahead. Increasing coverage rates among HCPs will not only benefit individuals, but also wider society, by shielding vulnerable populations and helping to ease pressure on already overstretched healthcare systems.
On the occasion of the Flu Awareness Week - and its Annual Meeting - the Coalition for Vaccination, with which Active Citizenship Network is an associated organisation, has launched a social media campaign to recommend getting vaccinated against influenza also this year! Read the statement on the Coalition website.
Did you miss our digital event dedicated to patients and titled “Promoting civic information to better address the collateral damage of COVID-19 on cardiovascular disease across Europe”? Do not worry! The recording is now available here. Click here to download the materials, and to know more about the panelists, click here. For the new communication campaign launched by Active Citizenship Network in occasion of the annual “World Heart Day”, please visit the ACN official YouTube channel.
Cittadinanzattiva’s most recent project on sustainable mobility, promoted in conjunction with the Unipolis Foundation, is the fruit of the work of 2,000 students from 57 Italian schools which imagines and sketches out the possible ways in which mobility and the communities of the future will work. The proposals include apps that reward people who use eco-friendly means of transport; sustainable, integrated areas in towns where cars and bikes can be recharged; benches with solar panels; smog-eating buses; and sensors that can reveal whether drivers have taken alcohol or drugs. Ten groups representing ten secondary schools from across Italy presented and delivered the first sustainable mobility Manifesto by Italian schools to Enrico Giovannini, Minister of Sustainable Infrastructures and Mobility, last September in Rome, in the framework of the Annual European Mobility Week, of which Cittadinanzattiva, through its EU branch Active Citizenship Network, is an associated partner since many years. To know more read here.
Active Citizenship Network keeps growing, and not only in Europe. In this newsletter we are going to report a series of agreements formalized in this last period, which testify a growing interest in our work on the one hand, and - on the other hand - our willingness to collaborate in synergy with the many actors of civil society who pursue common purposes.
In the past months, Active Citizenship Network published several articles on international peer review journals, healthcare specialized media and generalist journal. In details:
Active Citizenship Network (ACN) is glad to invite you on the 29th of September 2021, from 11.30 to 13.00 CEST, to the digital event titled “Promoting civic information to better address the collateral damage of COVID-19 on cardiovascular disease across Europe”. The EU webinar organized by Active Citizenship Network is scheduled in occasion of the Annual “World Heart Day”: starting from data provided by the European Society of Cardiology on the Covid-19 impact, thanks to this initiative, ACN’s aim is to highlight some key messages - both in terms of prevention and in terms of health priorities for the coming years. About it, Active Citizenship Network is happy to confirm that this European webinar has been included in the portal of the EU Union focused on the Conference for the Future of Europe, and it will be hosted by the MEPs Interest Group "European Patients' Rights & CrossBorder Healthcare”.
The “World Heart Day” is the perfect day to quit smoking, start exercising and start eating healthy – all in the name of keeping your heart rate in good conditions, and improving the health and well-being of people all over the world. On this occasion, Active Citizenship Network will carry out for the first time at the EU level ad hoc European and national awareness campaigns on proper lifestyles and on the prevention of the risks linked to cardiovascular disorders and pathologies. The initiative is realized as part of the multi annual EU project “Increasing consciousness and access to treatment, reducing the burden of cardiovascular diseases across Europe”.