MEDICEL meeting

Istanbul 30/06/2012

Objectives and role of AOECS

The objective is to disseminate the results of the project as well as finding potential synergistic networking partners relevant to the technologies to be developed.

This will be facilitated by:– Identifying and establishing a dissemination plan that

progresses with the growth of the project and its outcomes– Identifying potential synergistic collaborations with national

programs– Identifying other relevant research programs– Establishing a coordinated effort through the creation of

various related networks

ObjectivesObjectives

CDMedics WebsiteCDMedics Website

• The momentum that was gathered during the previous 3 years has been kept.

• Over 6700 hits in a year from 71 countries• With over 14000 pages visited.• Major change is in the pages visited:• Top 7 pages visited (last year)

1. Newsletter (1)2. Objectives (3)3. Pamphlet (4)4. Profiles (2)5. Friends (7)6. Workpackages (6)7. Flyer (5)

Key achievements - DisseminationKey achievements - Dissemination

1. Presence of CD-Medics in 13 CD-related events – Most of these offered an opportunity for networking with other major European funded Projects including PreventCD and Medicel. Newsletters doctors’ pamphlets and brochures and posters were available for the delegates through a dedicated exhibitors booth. A video that was produced for such occasions was shown in a loop fashion through a large flat screen monitor. Altogether, these meetings reached an audience of over 20,000:

i. XVIII SYMPOSIUM ON CURRENT TREATMENTS FOR DIGESTIVE DISEASES 3-4 March, 2011, Madrid, Spain

ii. Medicel Meeting 3-5 April 2011, Bologna, Italy

iii. Espghan Meeting, 25-27 May, 2011, Sorrento, Italy.

iv. SALAIA - PRODUCTS AND SERVICES FOR FOOD ALLERGIES AND INTOLERANCES, 3-5 June, 2011

v. ICDS Meeting, 20-22, June 2011, Oslo, Norway

vi. AOECS General Assembly, 8-10 September 2011, Malta.

vii. UEGW Meeting, 22-26 October 2011 Stockholm, Sweden.

viii. CDMedics Road-show - Coeliac Disease: Different faces of CD and new perspectives, 26 November 2011, Riga, Latvia.

Key achievements - DisseminationKey achievements - Dissemination

ix. CDMedics Training Seminar – Gastroenterology Days in Kiev – All about Coeliac Disease: Doctors for Doctors, 17-18 November 2011, Kiev, Ukraine.

x. XXIX MADRID COELIAC FESTIVAL 17 December, 2011, Madrid, Spain

xi. Coeliac UK Research Conference: “Coeliac disease: new approaches to diagnosis, prevention and practice” – 3 February 2012, London, UK.

xii. 19th Annual Congress of Paediatric Gastroenterologists – 13 March, 2012, Moscow, Russia, 13.03.2012

xiii. Espghan Meeting, 27-28 April 2012, Stockholm, Sweden.

xiv. Medicel Meeting, June 2012, Istanbul, Turkey

xv. Over 170 local meetings in Spain

Major Networking MeetingsMajor Networking Meetings

3. EU project PreventCD – meetings were held during the major CD related Scientific meetings (e.g. ICDS, Gastroenterology week, Espghan)

4. Medicel – Conjoint networking meeting was held in Malta on the 8th September 2011. Various topics related to CD in the emerging Mediterranean countries were discussed.

5. CDMedics presentation is also scheduled for the next Medicel Meeting in Istanbul, Turkey – 30th June 2012.

Major Networking MeetingsMajor Networking Meetings

Topics that were discussed included:

1.Easier and cheaper testing techniques

2.Identifying local gluten free foods

3.Setting up a Pan Mediterrenean CD BioBank

Key achievements - DisseminationKey achievements - Dissemination

6. Roadshows

i. XXVIII Madrid Coeliac Festival, 17th December 2011, Audience: > 6,000.

TrainingTraining

E-training/e-course on CDMedics Website:

Key achievements - DisseminationKey achievements - Dissemination

Publication of the Pubic Newsletter

Publication of the Internal Newsletter

CDMedics also featured in a number of publication of ACM (Madrid). It is estimated that these publications reached an audience of near 90,000)

Key achievements - DisseminationKey achievements - Dissemination

Presence of CD-Medics on the Web

Year 1 - Presence in 46 websites

Year 2 – Presence in over 145 websites

Year 3 – Presence in over 200 websites

Year 4 – Presence in over 450 websites

The most common mention – You Tube videos

AcknowledgementsAcknowledgements

The CD-MEDICS integrated project is partly funded by the European Commission (IST-1007-2-216031).

www.cdmedics.eu