The European Ombudsman, Emily O’Reilly, celebrated the range and quality of the nominations for the Award for Good Administration in a ceremony in Brussels on Thursday.
Launched in October, the Award attracted 90 nominated projects from the main EU institutions as well as many agencies and other bodies.
Prizes were awarded in 7 categories with the overall Award for Good Administration 2017 going to the Commission’s DG Health whose nominated unit developed EU collaboration in the sharing of vital information and expertise to help millions of Europeans suffering from rare diseases.
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The 60th International Days of Clinical Endocrinology (Henri-Pierre-KLOTZ) will take place on June 8th and June 9th 2017 in Paris, France. Theme of the conference will be “From the shortest to the tallest”.
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The 3rd international symposium on the Calcium Sensing Receptor (CaSR) will take place from May 11th to May 13th in Florance, Italy.
The symposium will bring together basic, translational and clinical scientists from different disciplines who study the molecular biology, physiology, and pathophysiology of the CaSR and clinical disorders of CaSR function.
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The 3rd DSDnet Training School will take place from September 28th to September 30th in Budapest, Hungary as a postgraduate level course. The DSDnet Training School 2017 is under the topic: “Promoting Research in DSD”.
The Training School is aimed at Professionals from COST Countries in their early stages of career, from a medical or a scientific background.
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The European Reference Networks for rare and complex diseases (ERNs) were officially installed on 9 March 2017 at the 3rd conference on Rare diseases in Vilnius, Lithuania. The first General Assembly (GA) of the European Reference Network on Rare Endocrine Conditions (Endo-ERN) was held on Monday 27 March 2017, in Leiden, The Netherlands.
The purpose of this first annual meeting was first to inform and update all members and other stakeholders on the mission, structure, and governance of Endo-ERN, and subsequently to approve the current application by the members via voting in order to be officially operational, and finally to [...]
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CAPITAL (CAre for PITuitary Adenoma Leiden) organizes on June 8th and June 9th a multidisciplinary workshop for pituitary tumor specialists.
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The 6th International DSD symposium will take place in Copenhagen on June 29th – July 1st 2017. This event has been awarded up to 15 credits by EAC-CME.
The outline programme with confirmed invited speakers is available on the symposium website.
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Some information and links on “Cross-border Healthcare” added to the Endo-ERN website.
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On March 9th 2017, all ERNs have officially been launched by the European Commission. This great celebration was organized by the ERN team of the European Commission DG SANTE.
On March 10th, Endo-ERN held its Steering Committee / Kick-off meeting to discuss our governance, multi-annual action plan and action plan for YEAR 1 with chairs of the Main Thematic Groups and Work Packages and Patient representatives. We thank all attendees for their participation and enthusiastic involvement.
Endo-ERN is very proud that we can now officially start working on our planned projects in order [...]
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The European Commission organizes the 3rd European Reference Networks Conference in Vilnius on March, 9–10th 2017. This event will be the official launch and start of the first labeled European Reference Networks (see here the list of approved ERNs).
The conference (live webstream will be available here) on 9th will tackle topics such as:
Coordination, management & governance of ERNs; ERN IT platform as core element for eHealth, telemedicine, sharing of expertise in complex clinical cases; EU policies and support to ENRs (research, registry platform, rare diseases policy…); ERN and national healthcare systems; The [...]
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