Objective EURO IMPACT aims to develop a multi-disciplinary, multi-professional and intersectorial educational and research training network aimed at monitoring and improving palliative care in Europe. Palliative care is less than optimal in many developed countries and some patients suffer from severe symptoms. While international research on palliative care has begun to develop over the past decades, it has not kept pace with the growing demand for high quality care. The increase in elderly people, chronic diseases and health care costs, makes the provision of enhanced research training in palliative care one of the most urgent societal challenges at EU level.The training and research programme of EURO IMPACT are closely intertwined, involving 4 universities, 2 private companies and 3 socio-economic actors, and training 12 early stage and 4 experienced researchers. The partners are at the forefront of palliative research training and represent a wide spectrum of disciplines and professions. The research training involves researchers working together, with different methodologies and datasets gathered in different countries and from multiple perspectives. It will provide a broad overview on palliative care and its quality in Europe and identify tools to improve it. On-the-job training will be supplemented with structured courses concerning palliative care research and network-wide training on multi-disciplinary, ethics, cross-national research and societal dissemination. In order to influence policy and clinical practice in palliative care, all partners and researchers are involved in societal dissemination of the training results to a wider national and international audience.EURO IMPACT reduces current fragmentation of research training in palliative care and provides the new generation of European researchers with the necessary scientific and complementary skills to influence future palliative care at national and international level, and at practice and policy level. Programme(s) FP7-PEOPLE - Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) Topic(s) FP7-PEOPLE-2010-ITN - Marie-Curie Action: "Initial Training Networks" Call for proposal FP7-PEOPLE-2010-ITN See other projects for this call Funding Scheme MC-ITN - Networks for Initial Training (ITN) Coordinator VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL EU contribution € 1 058 801,81 Address PLEINLAAN 2 1050 Bruxelles / Brussel Belgium See on map Region Région de Bruxelles-Capitale/Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest Région de Bruxelles-Capitale/ Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest Arr. de Bruxelles-Capitale/Arr. Brussel-Hoofdstad Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Nik Claesen (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (7) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all ISTITUTO NAZIONALE PER LA RICERCA SUL CANCRO Participation ended Italy EU contribution No data Address Largo Rosanna Benzi 10 16132 GENOVA See on map Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Alfonso Di Donato (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data STICHTING VU Netherlands EU contribution € 752 713,09 Address DE BOELELAAN 1105 1081 HV Amsterdam See on map Region West-Nederland Noord-Holland Groot-Amsterdam Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Michel Telkamp Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data KING'S COLLEGE LONDON United Kingdom EU contribution € 697 734,00 Address STRAND WC2R 2LS London See on map Region London Inner London — West Westminster Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Irene Higginson (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data NORGES TEKNISK-NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET NTNU Norway EU contribution € 541 094,40 Address HOGSKOLERINGEN 1 7491 Trondheim See on map Region Norge Trøndelag Trøndelag Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Patrick Reurink (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data IRCCS OSPEDALE POLICLINICO SAN MARTINO Participation ended Italy EU contribution € 237 709,18 Address LARGO ROSANNA BENZI 10 16132 Genova See on map Region Nord-Ovest Liguria Genova Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Alfonso Di Donato (Prof.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITY OF LANCASTER United Kingdom EU contribution € 697 735,50 Address BAILRIGG LA1 4YW Lancaster See on map Region North West (England) Lancashire Lancaster and Wyre Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Sarah Taylor (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data VERENIGING VOOR CHRISTELIJK HOGER ONDERWIJS WETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK EN PATIENTENZORG Netherlands EU contribution No data Address De Boelelaan 1105 1081 HV Amsterdam See on map Region West-Nederland Noord-Holland Groot-Amsterdam Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Michel Telkamp (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data
