VACCELERATE Showcase Event
23 January 2025
VACCELERATE Annual Meeting
21 January 2025
APT Workshop
18-19 January 2024 Cologne, Germany
ECCMID 2024
27-30 April 2024 Barcelona, Spain
Prof. Bruijning-Verhagen in Cyprus
01 November 2023 Cyprus
It was a great pleasure to host the WP5 Leads of the VACCELERATE pan European Scientific Consortium, Professor Patricia Bruijning-Verhagen and Sanne Hofstraat from the UMC Utrecht, in Cyprus at the Medical School of the European University Cyprus.
The aim of the visit was to perform clinical site visits and interviews with local stakeholders across Cyprus to foster capacity building in the field of clinicaltrials in Cyprus. It was discussed about missed opportunities, the current barriers and possible #acilitators to improve the Cypriot clinical research ecosystem with concrete actions.
Identification of educational needs of Cypriot patients
The VACCELERATE Cyprus team wants to conduct a study (questionnaire) for the identification of patient advocacy groups educational needs in Cyprus. This study will help EUPATI (European Patient’s Academy on Therapeutic Innovation) Cyprus to create an educational lab based on the official guidelines of EUPATI (central).
KIT 2023 / VACCELERATE Talks and Posters
14-17 June 2023
16th Congress for Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine
Leipzig, Germany
Pint of Science / VACCELERATE Talk
24 May 2023, 19.00 Die Tankstelle, Kyffhäuser Str. 19 50674, Cologne
Tickets (only 2.5€): https://pintofscience.de/event/from-ancient-potatoes-to-future-computers
SCT 44th Annual Meeting
21-24 May 2023 Baltimore, USA
Public Health Conference Timisoara, Romania
11-13 May 2023
Organized by the Regional Center of Public Health Timisoara, EPIVEST Association and the University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timisoara.
The conference targeted public health specialists from the regional public health authorities, medical schools and hospitals.
https://epivest.ro/conferinta-nationala-de-sanatate-publica-tm-2023/
CECAD Open Day
06 May 2023, 10.00-17.00
Visit our VACCELERATE booth, special campagin with the Vacuna vaccination app (https://vacuna.io/)
Programme: https://www.cecad.uni-koeln.de/tag-der-alternsforschung
ECCMID 2023
33rd European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases
15 – 18 April 2023 Copenhagen, Denmark
2nd VACCELERATE Annual Meeting 16 MARCH 2023
On January 25th 2023 the VACCELERATE team from Cyprus joined a EUPATI (https://www.eupati.eu/) meeting to support and enhance the role of patient advocacy groups in vaccine clinical research. They provided a gift with the VACCELERATE educational cards.
1st Scientific Meeting of the National CY Vaccination Committee
22 October 2022, Cyprus
MYK 2022
12-14 September 2022 Vienna, Austria
CZECRIN Annual Research Conference 2022
09 JUNE 2022 Brno, Czech Republic
International Clinical Trials Day (ICTD) 2022
17 MAY 2022 Berlin, Germany
FAMHP Vaccine Symposium
10 May 2022
Prof. Pierre Van Damme presenting VACCELERATE in his talk „Perspective for the future: Vaccinopolis and biopreparedness initiative“
40th Annual Meeting of the European Society of Paediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID)
09-13 MAY 2022 Athens, Greece
World Vaccine Day 14 MAY 2022
On World Vaccine Day people around the world celebrate the benefits of vaccines. This day aims to raise awareness of the many positive contributions that vaccines make to our society.
More information on https://worldvaccineday.org/.
23-26 APRIL 2022
32nd European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, Lisbon, Portugal
1st Cypriot-Greek VACCELERATE Volunteer Registry Webinar with local National Patient Advocacy Groups 28 MARCH 2022
– To seek the support of PAG Members in completing the VAC PAG questionnaire (perspectives of PAGs for participation in clinical trials and volunteer registries)
– To invite them to join the VACCELERATE Volunteer Registry by becoming volunteers in our Cypriot Greek VAC platforms More than 12 PAGs participated
You can watch the video of the webinar (in Greek) here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNFNVe17mtg
