Kronikgune

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 [...]

Basque Country awarded the Seal of Excellence by the European Commission for fostering regional innovation in active and healthy ageing

By |2020-01-16T14:29:08+01:004 October 2019|

This award recognises the coordination and consistency of Basque institutions and organisations when meeting people's needs and improving their quality of life. The European Commission has given the Basque Country the highest possible rating, four stars, and the “Seal of Excellence” as a Reference Site for their outstanding work fostering regional innovation and active and [...]

The C3-Cloud and Scirocco Exchange projects were presented at the congress “Digital Health: Challenges for progress”

By |2019-10-11T12:58:27+01:0024 September 2019|

Palacio Miramar in Donostia - San Sebastián hosted the last edition of the congress on 12 and 13 September 2019. The “Digital Health: Challenges for progress” congress organised by Osakidetza and the UPV/EHU Summer Courses included the participation of the Health Minister, Nekane Murga, who gave the inaugural speech. The central themes of the congress [...]

UPRIGHT project takes part in the fourth National Congress on Psychology

By |2020-01-16T14:41:36+01:0014 August 2019|

The fourth national congress took place from 21 to 24 July 2019 in the city of Vitoria-Gasteiz. Nekane Murga, Basque Regional Minister for Health, was in charge of opening the congress, which was held this year for the first time alongside the International Symposium on Psychological Prevention. Over four days more than 1,500 people gathered [...]

UPRIGHT consortium meets at its third plenary assembly

By |2019-10-02T10:13:04+01:004 July 2019|

The meeting allowed us to analyse the tasks developed until now and establish a detailed plan for the actions to be carried out over the next months. Trondheim (Norway), where the NTNU -one of the seven members of the Consortium- headquarters are located, was chosen to hold the third general assembly for the UPRIGHT European [...]

A Basque Country delegation visits Scotland as part of the Interreg Europe Project TITTAN

By |2019-09-09T16:18:24+01:0026 June 2019|

Osakidetza and Kronikgune along with BIOEF visited the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow on 29 and 30 April.  This visit forms part of the activities in the 2019-2020 action plan for the Interreg Europe Project, TITTAN (Translation, Innovation & Technology Transfer in Ageing Network). TITTAN seeks to improve the quality of healthcare systems by developing [...]