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In the past months, Active Citizenship Network published several articles on international peer review journals, healthcare specialized media and generalist journal. In details:
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.
As the first year of the NUDGE Project ends, the first phase of data collection on consumers’ behaviors regarding energy is ending, while the second phase begins. This year the NUDGE consortium will carry out five field trials to experiment with a broad set of behavioral interventions in scenarios with high potential for energy savings, targeting consumers from Greece, Belgium, Germany, Portugal, and Croatia. Pilot projects will target European consumers coming from different environments (residential, energy communities, schools), different age groups (children included), different income classes, and being served by different energy carriers.
Active Citizenship Network has recently signed an official agreement with the Centre for Regional Policy Research and Cooperation “Studiorum”, a Macedonian non-governmental think-tank working on economic and social aspects of EU integration and globalization processes. Active Citizenship Network and Studiorum aim to collaborate on the empowerment of citizens and patients and on increasing their participation in European public policies and dialogues.
The Alliance of Transplanted and Operated ATO "Future for All" from Bulgaria highlights the need to introduce the principle of equal partnership between institutions, medical professionals` organizations and patients' associations in the development and adoption of strategies, standards, and policies in the healthcare field. ACN and the Alliance of Transplanted and Operated ATO "Future for All" will work together to facilitate the exchange of good practices in the healthcare areas of common interest and promote each other’s experiences and initiatives regarding the improvement of healthcare systems and the reduction of health inequalities.
The Association of Reproductive Health, Pregnancy and Childcare "Smile" from Bulgaria focuses on strengthening the link between civil societies and institutions on issues related to the promotion of citizen and patient participation in the management and control of the healthcare and social system. Valuable in this sense, is the agreement signed between Active Citizenship Network and “Smile” on the topics of the protection of patients’ rights, reduction of health inequalities, and promotion of public health as a common good.
The main objectives of Innovations Institute from Bulgaria are to implement social innovations in Bulgaria in healthcare and education; improve the dialogue and partnership between public institutions, businesses and academic bodies to facilitate the innovations and improve the innovation capacity of the country; and implement innovative technological solutions in different sectors in social infrastructure and financing them via state budget, EU funded programs, donor organizations, public-private partnership projects. In this regard, Active Citizenship Network and Innovations Institute have the goal to support each other at the EU level to join forces to cooperate with EU institutions and both private and public relevant stakeholders towards a more resilient healthcare system for a healthier European Union.
The Bulgarian Patients' Organizations “With You” has the aim of strengthening citizen participation in the management and control of the healthcare system. Active Citizenship Network and Patients' Organizations With You will support each other with the aim to encourage citizen participation in European public policies, activities, and dialogues as a key step towards a more inclusive Europe.
The Bulgarian Association of Patients with Cardiovascular Disease works on increasing the active participation of patients in public debates and dialogue with the institutions in relation to prevention and treatment of the cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). Active Citizenship Network, over the last 15 years, has also been increasing its contribution for the prevention of CVDs. The collaboration between the two was announced as a follow up of the Active Citizenship Network’s event “Promoting civic information to better address the collateral damage of COVID-19 on cardiovascular disease across Europe”, to which the Bulgarian association has also participated in the panel. The two associations, in this regard, aim at supporting each other’s initiatives in the areas of common interest related to the promotion of public health, with a particular focus on raising awareness about prevention on CVDs.
Active Citizenship Network has recently signed a new Memorandum of Understanding with European Patient Safety Foundation (EUPSF), an independent, public interest Foundation, with the aim to support and raise standards of the safety and quality of care of patients as well as to encourage all parties interested to join in on a European and worldwide level. The Foundation also aims at being a best practices exchange platform for innovative, meaningful, sustainable, and replicable solutions for Patient Safety improvement. In this regard, ACN and EUPSF agreed to work together on the improvement of patients’ access to care and on strengthening patients’ empowerment and agreed to support each other’s initiatives and best practices on the topic of the protection of patients’ rights.
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