EFA in meetings - March 2014
This month EFA President spoke about asthma at IMI staff meeting, EFA met with the US COPD Coalition on collaboration as well as European Disability Forum....
EFA Member News - March 2014
News from EFA’s members this month includes worrying details of legislative changes in Belgium which could negatively impact EFA’s members in the country...
Europe for Patients at EP Elections
The European Parliament elections are approaching. In less than two months European citizens will be called to vote on their future representatives...
EU Policy update (March 2014)
In March, the Tobacco Products Directive was finally adopted by the Council and ended a process started more than 1 year ago to protect Europeans’...
AGM and Strategic Planning & Networking Meeting and EP Event
EFA is looking forward to this year's Annual General Meeting AGM which will take place in Brussels on the 16th of June 2014. All EFA members are...
SAS Radisson Blu EU Hotel
The power of patients 3.0
EFA Membership and Programme Officer David Brennan will be attending European Network on Patient Empowerment (ENOPE) conference in Basel organized by Careum....
Tobacco Products Directive
Last word of the European Parliament on the tobacco products directive
On February, 26 the plenary of the European Parliament (EP) voted on the text of...
EFA Manifesto for EP Elections
The European Parliament elections are fastly approaching and through this information channel, we call on all the readers of our Newsletter to take a piece...
EFA Training on EMA
EFA training for patient experts on allergy, asthma and COPD on getting involved with the European Medicines Agency (EMA)
As we informed you in the last...
EFA Baltic Alignment Meeting
On the 15th of February EFA organised an alignment meeting with patient associations representing people with asthma, allergy and COPD in Latvia and Lithuania....
EFA in Meetings - February 2014
EFA Board and Officers Annual Meeting with Sustainable Funding Partners
On 19th February, the EFA Board and EFA Secretariat met with the sustainable funding...
Last word of the European Parliament on the tobacco products directive
Today, the plenary of the European Parliament has voted on the text of the revised directive on the manufacture, presentation and sale of tobacco and related...
EFA training on involvement with the EMA
Rationale: 12 patient experts from EFA member associations will have the opportunity to discover what the European Medicines Agency (EMA) is and especially...
Noninvasive Ventilation: Basic Concepts
This course is part of the ERS School Course Series 2014
Location: Hannover (Germany)
Organiser: N. Hart, R. Scala, B. Schonhofer
Aims: This...
The Value of Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) for Professionals
Online Course
This course is part of the ERS School Course Series 2014
Organisers: A. Fletcher; N. Smyth
Aims: This ERS online school course...
Pulmonary Rehabilitation
This course is part of the ERS School Course Series 2014
Location: Horn (Switzerland)
Aims: This course will provide a comprehensive overview of...
Online Course Respiratory Epidemiology
This course is part of the ERS School Course Series 2014
Course organiser: G. Sotgiu.
Aims: This course will provide participants with an overview...
Hermes Summer School of Adult Respiratory Medicine
This Summer School is part of the ERS School Course Series 2014
Location: Barcelona (Spain)
Course description:
This ERS Summer School will...
Pulmonary Hypertension and Pulmonary Vascular Disease
This event is part of the ERS School Course Series 2014
Locaiton - Lausanne (Switzerland)
Organisers: S. Gaine; R. Naeije; A. Peacock
Aims: Physicians...