Our Tobias Fragner had the opportunity to participate in this year’s LBG OIS zam: Forum, which aimed to bring together researchers and civil society to discuss and critically reflect on current developments in the Austrian field of participatory and co-design research. During one of the poster presentation sessions, Tobi presented CoMitMenT, a community-centred participatory action...
On the occasion of World Cancer Day, Honja participated in a Youth Policy Dialogue on cancer with the newly appointed EU Commissioner for Health and Animal Welfare, Olivér Várhelyi. The event brought together 30 young individuals from across Europe, providing them with the opportunity to engage with the Commissioner, share their experiences as cancer survivors...
For the annual World Cancer Day on the 4th of February, the European Unions Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA) organised an innagural project showcase event under the motto “Fostering synergies to beat cancer: The impact of EU-funded projects“. This event brought together representatives of projects funded by the European Commission that focus on cancer...
On November 28, 2024, our Honja had the opportunity to present at the Austrian Patient Advisory Board (Österreichischer Patient:innenbeirat). The talk, titled Verschreibungspraktiken in Wien: Erste Erkenntnisse zu „Deprescribing“, focused on findings from our “Less is More?“-project. The session delved into the concept of deprescribing drawing on preliminary data from Vienna. The presentation highlighted the challenges...
Honja Hama and Igor Grabovac visited the European Cancer Summit between 20th and 22nd of November in Brussels. The European Cancer Summit is a high level event organized by the European Cancer Organisation and brings academic researchers, medical practitioners involved in cancer prevention and care and policy makers from national and EU levels. We are...
Lisa Lehner, together with Igor Grabovac won a new grant from the Vienna Science and Technology Fund – WWTF! The transdisciplinary project called “HPVienna: Pioneering a Transdisciplinary Urban Surveillance System for Human Papilloma Virus with Vulnerable Communities” focuses on surveillance, genotyping and modelling of HPV in vulnerable communities in Vienna. The project brings together the Bergthaler...
Yesterday the Medical University of Vienna and our team had the great pleasure of hosting the European cluster on Cancer Prevention and Early Detection – Implementation Research for the first annual cluster meeting. Over 40 delegates from EU funded Horizon Europe projects came to Vienna to discuss important topics regarding data management and potential for...
Lisa Lehner and Igor Grabovac won a new project grant from the Austrian Institue of Public Health (Gesundheit Österreich GmbH – GÖG). The project DIGI: Digital Helath Promotion: A Study on Quality Assurance of Digital Health Information (Digitale Geusndheitsförderung: Studie zur Qualitätsicherung von digitalen Gesundheitsinformationen) will look into the possibility of establishing quality control and...
On June 8th, 2024, Honja and Lisa led an interactive workshop with participants of the Primary Care Symposium (ÖGAM) in Vienna. They were joined by Magdalena Eitenberger and Katrin Schäfer who took over the role of the moderators to facilitate a lively discussion. The workshop was a practice exchange on prescribing benzodiazepines and antibiotics and...
To mark the end of year one, Honja, Lisa and Igor joined by Janina Kehr and Miriam Schweiger participated in an all day long “Less is More?” Project retreat. Next to celebration of many achivements and milestopnes we also planned further steps, and potential collaborations. In the project we focus on deprescribing pharmaceuticals for patient...