EPAAC is proud to have been invited to present at the High Level Conference on EU Health programmes: Results and Perspectives organized jointly by the European Commission's Directorate-General for Health and Consumers and its Executive Agency on 3 May 2012 in Brussels.

More than 700 participants registered for the event, including key actors from the health sector, NGOs, Member States and European institutions, health programme beneficiaries, scientists and academics participating in the Health Programme. On this occasion, Marija Seljak, director of National Institute of Public Health, presented the European Partnership for Action Against Cancer, which was invited as an example of a best practice in the field.

To see the EPAAC presentation, please click here.
To see Conference programme, please click here.
To see the Workshop programme, please click here.
To find out more about the High Level Conference on EU Health programmes: results and perspectives, please click here.

EPAAC is proud to have been invited to present at a Media Seminar in Brussels organised by the European Commission on 31 January, 2012. A large number of journalists across the EU are expected to attend the Media Seminar. On this occasion, Dr. Tit Albreht, Leader of the National Cancer Plans Work Package, will present EPAAC.

The kick-off meeting of the Quality Criteria for Health Checks took place on 2 December 2011 in the Hague, Netherlands. This is a part of Objective 4 of the EPAAC WP 6, Screening and Early Diagnosis.

The next Steering Committee meeting of the EPAAC Joint Action will convene on 21 March 2012 in Berlin. On 22 March, there will be a meeting of the representatives of the Ministries of Health participating in EPAAC, as well as representatives responsible for research in Member States; this is an intiative of  WP 8, Research.

The meeting of Coordination on Cancer Research was held on 22 March 2012 in Berlin as a part of Work Package 8, Research. The meeting was kindly hosted by the German Ministry of Health. Please check back for minutes and meeting documents.

The EPAAC Advisory and Steering Committee meetings were successfully carried out in Berlin on 21 March 2012. For those interested in following the progress of the Partnership, the minutes of the meetings will be up on the website shortly, so check back regularly!

The Colorectal Cancer Screening Programme Workshop took place in Liverpool on 7 and 8 March 2012. This conference is a part of the EPAAC WP 6, Screening and Early Diagnosis.

We are pleased to make the following presentations available:
- European Partnership for Action Against Cancer
- The Netherlands & Flanders, some 'food for thought'?
- Different strategies for CRC screening and screening tests invitations
- National Colorectal Cancer Screening Programme in Slovenia, the Svit Program
- Development and Implementation of European Colorectal Screening Guidelines
- Inequalities in Participation and/or Adherence to Colorectal Cancer Screening Programmes
- Overview of EPAAC Work Package 6 Early Diagnosis & Screening
- Colorectal cancer screening research: emerging findings from the EPAAC survey
- Pilot programme for colorectal cancer screening in Flanders
- Improving uptake rates for Bowel Cancer Screening in Cheshire & Merseyside
- Quality within the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme
- Regional Perspective on Implementing Colorectal Cancer Screening Programmes: Veneto Region, Italy
- From Pilot to Present Day
- NHS BCSP Lancashire "Connecting with our Communities"

The Open Forum Madrid e-conference book, containing abstracts and posters from the event, is now available for download from this link.

For presentations, programme and speaker biographies from the Open Forum, please see our HEIDI site here.

Video clips of Open Forum speakers will be uploaded to the site soon, so check back regularly!

Also don't forget to save the date for the next EPAAC Open Forum in Rome on 19 and 20 June, 2012; the themes of the 2012 Open Forum will be Cancer Information and Prevention. For more infomation, check back on the site or contact us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for details.

The next MAC event will be on  29 November from 11:30 TO 14:30, at the European Parliament in Brussels, hosted by MEP Frieda Brepoels, and will be a special roundtable on "Briefing on the European Partnership for Action Against Cancer (EPAAC)".

The purpose of this meeting is to inform and update on the progress of EPAAC (www.epaac.eu) and its main technical work packages, by the European Commission, Slovenian coordinators, and Work Package Leaders, in order to exchange ideas on how policymakers at the national and regional levels can help implement EPAAC's aims.

 All MAC events are free but for reasons of space and participation relevance, advance registration for approval is required. Interested? Please register here: http://www.europeancancerleagues.eu/mac/mac-events.html.

The Conference on European Standards of Care for Children with Cancer took place in Warsaw on 20-21 October 2011. This conference is a part of the EPAAC WP 7, Healthcare and was organised by the European Society for Paedeatric Oncology (SIOP) and the Polish Ministry of Health. This workshop was organised in order to disseminate the 'Standards of Care for Children with Cancer' document created by a multi-disciplinary team of experts across Europe.

To view the conference summary, minutes, presentations and further information, please click here.