European Cancer Partnership: Report from the first preparatory meeting


Dear ECPC Members,

The European Partnership for Action Against Cancer was initiated by the EU Commission in September 2009 with the support of a number of stakeholders like ECPC, bringing together the Commission, Member States and their Ministries of Health, patient organisations, health professionals, scientists, private industry and civil society. It has embarked on an ambitious agenda of a pan-European collaborative effort to tackle cancer more evenly and effectively across the EU.

The aim of the first preparatory meeting held on 7-8 Dec 2009 was an exchange of views about possible areas and directions to be considered within the framework of the Partnership. There were two main topics of discussion: how to structure the multi-stakeholder platform in the way to assure continuous action in the area of cancer prevention and control, and the immediate areas and actions to be addressed within the framework of the initiative. 

ECPC participated with four delegates to represent the cancer patients' voice in each of the four areas of the Partnership. As a result, ECPC together with the Member State Slovenia were selected to be the lead actors in the Virtual Partnership. The Virtual Partnership will enable partners who are not directly involved in Partnership actions to follow via the Internet what's going on in the Partnership, and to contribute ideas - and hence will be a great tool also for our ECPC member organisations. ECPC has now proposed a detailed concept to the Commission and will further discuss this with all stakeholders.

ECPC's proposed initative on Young people's involvement in the European Partnership was also accepted as a cross-cutting issue covering all issues that the Partnership will address. It will allow young people from across Europe to be involved in the Partnership for Action against Cancer from all Member States that our member organizations are from. The propsal will also be discussed in further detail in the upcoming meeting, and we'd be happy to receive any idea and input you might have for this.

We are attaching a detailed report about the preparatory meeting held on 7-8 December, for those that want to know more detail.

The second preparatory meeting for the Partnership will be held on 28 January 2010 in Luxembourg, where ECPC was also invited to participate to discuss the above actions on behalf of cancer patients. We will keep you informed about further progress.

Best wishes,

Tom Hudson
Simona Ene
Tom van der Wal
Denis Horgan
Jan Geissler

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