EUROPEAN COMMISSION HEALTH PROGRAMME - Health projects to Support Member States actions - migratory pressure - 2015
1Project Number 717275 Topic: HA-012015
Project Acronym SH-CAPAC
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Supporting health coordination, assessments, planning, access to health care and capacity building in Member States under particular migratory pressure (SHCAPAC)
1. ESCUELA ANDALUZA DE SALUD PUBLICA SA Spain 2. Azienda Unità Sanitaria Locale di Reggio Emilia Italy 3. TRNAVSK A UNIVERZITA V TRNAVE Slovakia 4. UNIVERSI TEIT GENT Belgium 5. UNIWERS YTET JAGIELLONSKI Poland 6. KOBENHA VNS UNIVERSITET Denmark 7. Academis ch Medisch Centrum bij de Universiteit van Amsterdam Netherlands
www.easp.es ; email: joseignacio.ole aga.easp@junt adeandalucia
The general objective of the project is to support EU Member States (MS) under particular migratory pressure in their response to health related challenges. Specific objectives of the project are to support MS’s coordination, assessments, planning of a public health response, fostering access to health care and capacity building efforts through training of health workers. Target countries are Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia (first arrival and transit countries); Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Malta, Sweden, The Netherlands (traditional destination countries); and Portugal, Poland, Spain (new destination countries). The ultimate beneficiaries are registered and unregistered refugees asylum seekers and other migrants, while direct beneficiaries are the health systems of each EU MS and their health workers. The project will contribute to meeting the objectives and priorities of the Annual Work Programme 2015. SH-CAPAC is being submitted by 7 European health institutions, 6 of them have developed the EU-funded MEM-TP project under the same lead institution (EASP, Spain). The partners will function as a collective entity for developing the necessary instruments and tools through a division of labour; carrying out regional advocacy and capacity building activities; conducting site visits to target countries for specific technical assistance; coordination activities with national health authorities and other relevant national stakeholders as well as with relevant international organisations and the EU. The project comprises 6 WP -including different tools and instruments to be developed- which are organized as a set of processes that will be structured as complementary, intertwined and synergistic streams of work, mutually reinforcing each other. They are intended primarily to support MS to strengthen their health systems for addressing the health needs of the refugee, asylum seekers and other migrant populations.
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EC Contribution 537.044,34€
EUROPEAN COMMISSION HEALTH PROGRAMME - Health projects to Support Member States actions - migratory pressure - 2015
2Project Number 717307 Topic: HA-012015
Project Acronym 8 NGOs in 11 States
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8 NGOs for migrants/refu gees' health needs in 11 countries
1. Associatio n Medecins du Monde France 2. Ärzte der Welt e.V. Germany 3. Medecins du Monde Belgium 4. Associatio n Doctors of The World- Greek Department Greece 5. Medicos Del Mundo Spain 6. Slovenska filantropija Zdruzenje za promocijo prostovoljstva Slovenia 7. MdM Sverige Läkare i Världen Sweden 8. Stiftelsen Kirkens Bymisjon Oslo,Helsesenter et for papirløse migranter Norway
www.medecin sdumonde.org email: elise.joisel@m edecinsdumon de.net
Eight NGOs will support the health authorities of 11 EU Member States (BE, BG, DE, EL, ES, FR, HR, IT, NO, SE, SI) in providing adequate and accessible health services to newly arrived migrants with a specific focus on children, unaccompanied minors and pregnant women. Where needed, flexible and adaptive mobile health surveillance and response units will identify arrival and transit locations and provide general health assessments. Individual mental and physical health assessments will be conducted using the standardized personal health record developed by IOM and DG SANTE. Migrants will receive a health booklet to facilitate referrals to adequate and accessible primary healthcare (including vaccinations). Psychosocial support and preventative care will also be delivered. Depending on the rapidly changing context, and as long as adequate patient privacy can be ensured, actions will take place in mobile units, in temporary ‘clinics’ or in already existing centres run by the partner organizations or one of their associate local partners. Wherever possible, access to national health systems will be supported through social and health mediation activities and the provision of information on migrants’ rights to access care. Experiences and lessons learned will be systematically shared with local, national and European health authorities. Core indicators on migrants’ health and main vulnerability factors will be routinely collected and used both to improve field teams’ responses and to inform health authorities. Finally, teams’ capacities will be reinforced through active European coordination and mutual learning mechanisms, including an intermediary workshop. As a result, geographically changing needs will continuously be assessed and met, cross-border health threats will be reduced, local coordination between all operational actors will be improved and applicants and their teams’ capacities in responding to urgent migrants’ health needs will be strenghtened..
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EC Contribution 2.756.269,00 €
EUROPEAN COMMISSION HEALTH PROGRAMME - Health projects to Support Member States actions - migratory pressure - 2015
3Project Number 717319 Topic: HA-012015
Project Acronym EURHUMAN
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EUropean Refugees HUman Movement and Advisory Network
1. Panepistimi o Kritis Greece 2. Stichting Katholieke Universiteit Netherlands 3. The University Of Liverpool United Kingdom 4. Stichting Nederlands Instituut Voor Onderzoek Van De Gezondheidszorg Netherlands 5. Sveuciliste U Zagrebu Filozofski Fakultet Croatia 6. Medizinisc he Universitaet Wien Austria 7. Univerza V Ljubljani Slovenia 8. European Forum For Primary Care Association Netherlands 9. Stichting Arq Netherlands 10. Azienda Unita Sanitaria Locale 11 Empoli Italy 11. Debreceni Egyetem Hungary
www.uoc.gr email: lionis@galinos .med.uoc.gr
The project will overall enhance the capacity of EU Member States accepting migrants and refugees in addressing their health needs, safeguard them from risks, and minimize cross-border health risks. This initiative will focus on addressing both the early arrival period and longer-term settlement of refugees in European host countries. The existing European and international experience will be systematically reviewed to identify effective interventions to vulnerable groups and tools for the initial health care needs assessment of the arriving refugees including mental, psychosocial and physical health. Established approaches including Participatory and Learning Action and Normalization Process Theory will be used to gain new understanding regarding the needs and opinions of both refugees and stakeholders in regards to the measures needed for health care assessment, and preventive activities including vaccinations, general health hygiene measures, chronic disease management, and psychosocial support. The content of the services that an early or late hosting multi-disciplinary center could offer in the countries that they will accept refugees will be discussed and defined by an international expert panel. Clinical protocols, guidelines together with health education and promotion material and as well as a training programme will be developed for staff serving the refugees and migrants health care centre and tailored protocols and pilot testing in six implementation settings in Greece, Italy, Croatia, Hungary, Austria and Slovenia with contribution from experts and stakeholders from Turkey, Cyprus, Ireland and Belgium. Finally, all these efforts will be evaluated and a final report for implementation in Europe.
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EC Contribution 1.251.841,13 €
EUROPEAN COMMISSION HEALTH PROGRAMME - Health projects to Support Member States actions - migratory pressure - 2015
4Project Number 201551 03 Topic: Direct grant agreem ent
Project Acronym IOM - ReHEALTH
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Re-HEALTH: Support Member States under particular migratory pressure in their response to health related challenges
International Organisation for Migration
www.iom.int email: rpetrovabened
[email protected]
This project will contribute to improved capacity of EU Member States under particular migratory pressure to help address health-related issues of arriving migrants, while responding to cross-border health threat, in particular at designated hotspots and reception facilities for refugees and other migrants. By achieving its specific objectives, the project will: establish links between hotspots and health systems; implement the EC/IOM Personal Health Record to promote health care provision with assessment of the health status/health needs of the arriving refugees and other migrants, as well as continuity in health care provision; facilitate collection and transfer of data at individual, at local level and potentially at destination country; and facilitate systematic health assessment and preventive measures provision (including vaccination) taking into account the needs of children and other vulnerable groups The development/adaptation of a database to include migrant health assessments records to be available at transit and destination countries will increase the knowledge of EU MS about refugees and migrants health needs and strengthen collaboration and joint reaction in case of cross-border health events detected.
TOTAL
EC Contribution 1.000.000€
5.545.154,47€
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