European Projects
UPRIGHT
Co-design a resilience programme aimed at teenagers, families, professionals in the fields of education, and education centres to enhance the resilience capacity of teenagers.
C3Cloud
To develop an ICT platform for creating an environment that integrates information and coordinates activities.
ACT@Scale
Promote scaling-up of good practices in integrated care and telemonitoring, and transfer learning and knowledge on implementation, development and consolidation of good practices.
CHRODIS-Plus
Help reducing the burden of chronic diseases while ensuring the sustainability and response to the capacity of healthcare systems, promoting the implementation of policies and translational initiatives.
Latest News
Fourth General Meeting of the European Scirocco project.
On 27th and 28th June, the city of Edinburgh, Scotland, [...]
ADVANTAGE Joint Action holds its second meeting with the project’s Spanish partners
The ageing population is one of the most serious challenges [...]
Kronikgune present at the EHMA 2018 congress
Budapest was chosen as the location for the new edition [...]
A delegation from Norrbotten (Sweden) visited the Basque Country to learn about the “Living Wills” Good Practice developed by Araba IHO
The work visit took place on 12th and 13th June [...]
- Through research in health services, scientifically substantiate the programs and policies of the health system in the aforementioned areas.
- Disseminate and apply research results, preferentially enhancing applied research and its transfer to clinical practice and health management, as well as, where appropriate, public health programs and to social innovation.
- Promote and develop research in health and socio-health services using existing capacities in Osakidetza – Basque Public Health Service, and facilitating the connection with other agents and sectors involved in the areas of elderly age, chronicity and dependence.
- Emphasis on applied and translational research, oriented towards the generation of economic and social value.
- Collaborate with other agents to contribute to the generation of social and economic value in the Basque Country.
- Contribute to positioning the health system and the Basque Country as an international reference in the areas subject of dedication of the Association.
The Kronikgune Association is a non-profit association constituted in accordance with Organic Law 1/2002 of 22 March, which regulates the right of association, and Law 7/2007, of 22 June, concerning associations in the Basque Country.
On 07 July 2011, the Kronikgune Association was registered in the General Associations Registry of the Basque Country with number AS/B/16142/2011.
The Kronikgune Association is run from the Directorate for Healthcare Research and Innovation of the Basque Country regional government’s Department of Health, as established in Decree 80/2017 of 11 April, which establishes the organic and operational structure of the Department of Health.
Specialist Areas
- The health, social and economic consequences of chronicity.
- Models for identifying chronic patients, especially the more complex cases.
- The design and interventional of personalized (patient-centred) interventions.
- Integrated care systems.
- e-Health and the use of technology in this field.