In April 2023, for the second time, the Nordic Rare Disease Summit brought together decision makers, healthcare professionals, patient organizations, media, academia and life science companies to elevate rare diseases as a priority area in the Nordic countries. The Summit is a platform for policy discussions and the exchange of good ideas. OIFE’s president Ingunn…
On February 13th we were four representatives from OIFE who attended the final meeting of the EuRR-Bone registry as a 3 year old project. Claudia Finis attended face to face and Taco van Welzenis, Rebecca Tvedt Skarberg and Ingunn Westerheim attended online. The project team in Leiden have delivered on all their milestones, and has…
Rare Disease Week (RDW) is a brand new week-long series of events organized by EURORDIS which started February 22nd 2021. It included many webinars that targeted on rare disease patient advocates. The goal was to empower them with knowledge and skills so they can effectively participate in advocative activities at a European level and influence…
On February 23rd we were at least six people from the OIFE-community represented at the big Rare 2030 conference brilliantly hosted by EURORDIS. The conference had more than 650 participants attending live (online) and even more people following on streaming. The main purpose was to present the recommendations from the Rare2030 foresight study. These were…
On August 31st the inclusion of Affiliated Partners to ERN BOND was finalized. 16 centres from 10 countries are now part of ERN BOND as affiliated partners (not full members). Their expertise will support all the network’s activities and will facilitate the sharing of knowledge across the EU. Affiliated Partners should be ERN’s entry points as they improve the accessibility across the EU for patients…
