Kronikgune

Second General Meeting of the YOUNG50 European Project

By |2020-05-15T10:13:34+01:0030 April 2020|

The general assembly was meant to be held in Bilbao. However, due to the European travel restrictions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, this meeting was held on 2 April online by videoconference.  YOUNG50 seeks to promote the prevention of CVD and detect the cardiovascular risk of people over 50 years of age. The project framework [...]

Bilbao hosts the 4th plenary assembly of the UPRIGHT project

By |2020-03-16T12:13:22+01:0016 March 2020|

Bilbao Exhibition Centre (BEC) in Barakaldo, the Kronikgune headquarters, hosted the meeting of the nine project partners on 4 and 5 February.   At this meeting the attendees undertook a complete revision of the tasks and milestones of the past months and shared the experiences of each of this intervention’s pilots. UPRIGHT (Universal Preventive Resilience [...]

Kronikgune attends the closing conference of the ADVANTAGE Joint Action

By |2020-01-16T11:54:04+01:0013 December 2019|

The event was held on 27 November in Brussels. For three years the ADVANTAGE JA (Joint Action) has worked on establishing a shared European framework to face the challenge of frailty, one of the main factors associated to disability in the elderly population. The establishment of a shared framework of understanding strives to create a [...]

The Scirocco Exchange Project holds several workshops at the 12th European Public Health Conference

By |2020-01-16T11:41:50+01:004 December 2019|

From 20 to 23 November 2019, Marseille (France) hosted the European Public Health Association (EUPHA) conference. This 12the edition was held under the title: “Building bridges for solidarity and public health” and gathered the European professional and scientific Public Health community. Public health professionals are a very diverse community and building bridges with professionals from [...]

The YOUNG50 European project holds its first general meeting

By |2020-01-16T12:04:03+01:0019 November 2019|

The meeting was held on 6 and 7 November in the city of Padua, Italy. YOUNG50 is a project co-funded by the Third EU Health Programme. It seeks to extend the good practices CARDIO50 for prevention, which was implemented in Italy, to regions in Lithuania, Romania and Luxembourg. This study started at the beginning of [...]

Kronikgune starts cooperation in a new European project: Gatekeeper

By |2020-01-16T12:56:16+01:008 November 2019|

The start-up meeting took place in Madrid from 23 to 25 October. The Gatekeeper consortium includes 43 partners from 13 Member States, featuring technological companies, research institutes or universities, healthcare suppliers and European and international networks focusing on technological innovation. Kronikgune, Osakidetza and Biocruces Bizkaia will represent the Basque Country. Funded by the Horizon 2020 [...]

Kronikgune participates in the 37th Congress of the SECA-Spanish Care Quality Society

By |2020-01-16T13:06:26+01:004 November 2019|

From 23 to 25 October, the Kursaal Congress Centre in Donostia-San Sebastián was the venue of the National Congress held by AKEB, the Basque Association for Care Quality. The motto for this edition was “Generating value in healthcare. Challenges and commitments”, which sought to share the work values in care quality, improvement processes and security [...]

The SCIROCCO Exchange project holds its first general meeting

By |2020-01-16T13:20:51+01:0031 October 2019|

The meeting was held on 23 and 24 October in Kôsice, Slovakia. SCIROCCO Exchange aims to support health and social care authorities to adopt and scale-up integrated care within their healthcare systems. Fourteen partners from nine European regions are the members of this consortium (Germany, Flanders, Basque Country, Slovakia, Slovenia, Vilna, Poland and Puglia), which [...]

The UPRIGHT project participates in the dissemination event of the BOOST European project

By |2020-01-16T14:05:06+01:0029 October 2019|

The event took place on 24 October at the facilities of EUREGHA - European Regional and Local Health Authorities in Brussels. The goal of this session was to debate how to contribute to the “Welfare economy” by developing the social and emotional abilities of European children and teenagers, through the support of the schools and [...]

Kronikgune attends the third ADVANTAGE JA Spanish partner meeting with Spanish stakeholders

By |2020-01-16T14:18:05+01:0015 October 2019|

The meeting took place on 1 October at Fundación Cajasol in Seville. ADVANTAGE JA (Joint Action) aims to prevent frailty. 34 institutions are taking part in this project which is coordinated by Spain, specifically by Getafe University Hospital run by Madrid's Public Health Service. A common European framework has been established in the project in [...]