In every English city, town, district and region, public health commissioners and programme leaders share many common objectives with their professional counterparts from across the UK and continental Europe.While facing an ever-growing series of social, economic and demographic challenges, each must seek new ways of prioritising the health and wellbeing needs of their local communities; driving up standards of service; improving public health outcomes; and delivering even-better value for the public purse.healtheurope.eu  offers a platform to share knowledge and identify innovative approac

The German EIT Health GmbH, Hackerstolz e.V., Heidelberg Startup Partners e.V. and Heidelberg University are organizing the “{Life Science} meets IT” Hackathon in Heidelberg on the 20th to 22nd of May 2016. Young entrepreneurs, engineers, IT specialists, designers and many more are invited to join this event and to develope innovative solutions for current and future healthcare challenges with the help of IT.

A Nordic-French Event will be organized on 12-13 May, 2016, at the premises of the Research Council of Norway, to present and discuss the upcoming H2020 calls on rare diseases in the 2017 call from the Societal Challenge 1 – Health, demographic change and wellbeing programme. The objective is to generate more H2020 applications targeting these calls. The seminar is open to all parties interested in rare diseases.

The strategic use and management of Intellectual Property (IP) – in business as well as in international research initiatives – is essential for strengthening the European scientific and technological base, boosting innovation and ensuring growth in the EU.

Who should attend?The conference is for all with an interest in dementia; medical professionals, researchers, professional and family carers, people with dementia, volunteers and staff of dementia organisations.

On the 19 and 20 of April more than 3,000 health and care professionals and 80 IT suppliers, will descend upon London’s Olympia for the UK’s biggest and most influential e-Health event this Spring! Supported by NHS England, UK e-Health Week has launched exciting new streams such as Commissioning, Vanguards and Nursing and will showcase the latest in e-Health innovations with those who commission and implement them. How can e-Health support the Five Year Forward View? What are your challenges?