On 7th of February, the 30-months SUNFRAIL Project was concluded by its Final Conference in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna Region, Italy. The final conference gathered high-level European and international speakers, national, regional and local health authorities and stakeholders and SUNFRAIL project partners to present and discuss the SUNFRAIL project’s result and opportunities for future adoption and replicability. […]
On 15 December, SUNFRAIL was presented by Prof. Marcello Maggio at the ADVANTAGE-JA (Joint Action on prevention of frailty) National Workshop in Rome. The workshop was organised in cooperation with the Italian Ministry of Health and the Health Commission of the Italian Committee of the Regions. It was attended by high profile experts of the […]
On 22 November, SUNFRAIL was presented in Brussels to members of the ENVI Committee of the European Parliament at the workshop “Limits and Potential of the Third Health Programme”. The SUNFRAIL Project was elected to present at the workshop as an example of a success story among projects funded by the Third Health Programme. The […]
During the last SUNFRAIL Steering Committee meeting, we took the opportunity of interviewing two of the experts involved in the project to hear about their views on the achievements of the project and some of the ongoing activities during the last months of project implementation leading up to the SUNFRAIL Final Conference on 7 February […]
On 19 October, the SUNFRAIL project consortium presented the project during a one-day event in Portadown, Northern Ireland (NI) attracting a variety of healthcare professionals working with older people across Northern Ireland. The event was organised by the Health and Social Care’s eHealth and External Collaboration Directorate. Between March and August 2017, the NI Southern […]
The SUNFRAIL Final Conference took place in Bologna, Italy, on February 7th. SUNFRAIL Final Conference was dedicated to present the main results obtained during the 34 months of the Sunfrail project. It aimed to propose recommendations for the replicability and sustainability of the model and of the tools identified. Furthermore, the conference focused on programs and initiatives […]
A local SUNFRAIL dissemination event will take place in Belfast on 19 October 2017. The event will comprise of two separate sessions; 1. an International Focus Knowledge Exchange Session and 2. a Local Beneficiaries event. The first session will gather NI stakeholders, including policy makers, healthcare managers, clinical staff, geriatricians and other healthcare professionals, and […]
The experimental phase of the SUNFRAIL training course on the early identification of frailty and multimorbidity started in July. The first two-day training course was held on the 4th and 5th of July in Turin (IT), at the Institute for Social and Economic Research of Piedmont (IRES). The SUNFRAIL project, within which Work Package 7 is led by the […]
On 5 April, in relation to the EIP-AHA B3 Action Group meeting, the SUNFRAIL project team held a seminar to present preliminary project results and good practices in the early identification of frailty and multimorbidity using the SUNFRAIL tool. The event in Brussels gathered almost 50 participants representing a wide range of regional offices and […]
The SUNFRAIL project team is delighted to invite you to a SUNFRAIL seminar in European Commission premises on 5 April to share with you the preliminary results achieved throughout the first two years of the project. The content of this seminar is of high relevance to ageing societies across Europe. Population ageing is accelerating from […]
