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[Event Announcement & Call for Applications] European Health Award - Deadline 26 May 2017
The European Health Forum Gastein is the leading health policy conference in Europe. Our journey started exactly 20 years ago, but our main goal remains the same: to facilitate the establishment of a framework for advising and developing European health policy while recognising the principle of subsidiarity.
- Posted on: 15.05.2017
- Austria
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This thematic track is dedicated to health system, increasingly under pressure across Europe and beyond. Last year´s EHFG discussed some of the dominant themes such as population ageing, migration and the heightened burden of chronic diseases. While there are no easy solutions for these and other challenges, we are in many instances moving in the right direction. We are pleased to announce several sessions that will explore ways forward for European health systems to become more equitable, more inclusive and more sustainable.
European Health Award
We honour initiatives aiming to improve public health or healthcare in Europe. The Award was established to promote cross-border cooperation, development of sustainable & innovative initiatives that address current challenges. It includes prize money of 10.000 EUR & will be presented at the EHFG 2017.
The call for applications for the EHA 2017 is open now!
Deadline for receiving applications is 26 May 2017 (by midnight).
Selection criteria
Initiatives & projects must comply with the following criteria to be eligible for consideration:
- The initiative must already be in its implementation phase, although it does not have to be completed at the time of application.
- Applicants should be able to provide some initial results from their initiative.
- The initiative must be implemented in at least two European countries.
- The initiative should focus on public health or health care delivery and address an important threat to the health of the population in terms of prevention or health promotion, improving quality of care or access to care or through increased efficiency or cost-effectiveness
- The initiative should be innovative and/or demonstrate how it has added an innovative dimension to similar projects.
- The initiative should be sustainable and have the potential to be transferable to other countries.
Selection process
The European Health Forum Gastein collates all applications and works with external evaluators to assess the applications against the above selection criteria. The EHFG Board approves a shortlist of nominations which are then considered by a jury panel.
Registration
Civil society & academia
Early bird until 14 July: 500 EUR
Public sector
Early bird until 14 July: 700 EUR
Standard fee
Early bird until 14 July: 1550 EUR
The cancellation fee is 10 % of the total amount unil 8 September 2017, then 50 % until 27 September 2017 and 100 % thereafter.