On June 27 OIFE volunteer Rebecca Tvedt Skarberg represented EURORDIS at the EU Meeting “A Union of Equality: Disability Rights and Strategies”, which was a seminar on examples of how to reach equality by using strategies to realize the rights of persons with disabilities. In order to highlight and raise awareness of the EU strategy…
The EURORDIS Open Academy School on Medicines Research & Development (Summer School) aims to provide rare disease patient advocates with the knowledge and skills needed to become experts in medicines research and development. Since 2015, researchers are also welcome to attend the School. Also this year people connected to OIFE were attending EURORDIS Summer School…
Written by Lars Romundstad, OIFE volunteer from Norway EURORDIS is the umbrella association for organizations for rare conditions in Europe. And the 26th and 27th of May 2023, OIFE was represented at the EURORDIS Membership Meeting in Stockholm. Lars Romundstad, represented the OIFE together with Rebecca Tvedt Skarberg, who is also a Board member of…
The European Parliament of Persons with Disabilities (EPPD) was a one-day event on May 23, 2023 that reunited over 600 disability advocates, policymakers and other stakeholders. It was hosted at the hemicycle of the European Parliament in Brussels. The theme of the 5th edition was “Building an inclusive future for persons with disabilities in the…
EURORDIS and partners have launched a major project to empower patient involvement in Health Technology Assessments: European Capacity Building for Patients (EUCAPA). EUCAPA is designed to train patients and their representatives in Health Technology Assessment (HTA) – the multidisciplinary and systematic process that evaluates the added value of a health technology in comparison to other…
On February 8th a European Parliament event took place, hosted by Member of Parliament (MEP) Frédérique Ries and organised in collaboration with EURORDIS. The event was in the framework of Brussels Rare Disease Week 2023, to reflect on how the EU can ensure that more and better treatments are available, accessible and affordable for people…
From November 8-9 Ingunn and Renata attended the EURORDIS Council of Federations meeting in Paris. Inger-Margrethe S. Paulsen from NFOI also attended. Among the topics were access to treatments and the pharmaceutical legislation, information about Rare Disease Week and future funding options in research. There was also an update on the situation for people with…
Three times our life was divided into “Before” and “After”… Written by Lyubov Petrova, mother of a daughter with OI & chair of the Ukranian OI-organization. The Diagnosis First it was my daughter’s diagnosis with Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI)… “Before” was joy of the birth of a long-awaited beautiful baby-daughter, registration to the best kindergarden in…
There is a brutal war going on in one of OIFE’s member countries, and the last couple of days OIFE has received several questions from people who are concerned about the situation in Ukraine. Many are wondering if there is an OI-organization in Ukraine and how they can be of assistance to people with OI…
