INNOVA4TB EVENTS
INNOVA4TB & TBnet Fundraising Campaign
The Russians attacks on the Ukrainian electrical system has caused severe electricity outages in the country. The Centre for Socially Significant Diseases, one of INNOVA4TB partners in Ukraine, is the main regional TB/HIV managing facility. They lead TB/HIV management in a region with 2 million people and 100 000 internally displaced people.
The region has traditionally high rates of TB, MDR-TB and HIV/TB. Recently, due to the dedicated work of the staff, the prevalence of TB started to decrease, and effective diagnostics of HIV allowed to provide ART to more people living with HIV. During the last two years, the work of the Centre for Socially Significant Diseases was impacted by COVID-19 pandemic but they could still perform TB/HIV diagnostics on a large scale. However, now the Centre is facing challenges with electricity that could cause operational issues.
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Oleksandr Konopko, the Director Interim of the Centre for Socially Significant Diseases has described the Centre’s need for a more powerful diesel generator.
This letter was drafted by Stanislav Pavskyi who you may know from INNOVA4TB meetings. Stanislav is currently leading the management of strategic and international questions at the Centre for Socially Significant Diseases.
Together with TBnet, the European network for clinical tuberculosis, we have started a campaign to raise funds for an electricity generator to maintain the work of the laboratory. In a joint effort we have already raised more than 2500 euros over the last week, a great result! However, the electricity generator is an expensive device and we need to raise more. As part of this consortium, we all understand the key role of the laboratory diagnostics in TB and HIV management – without diagnosis there is no treatment - and every piece of equipment needed for diagnostics is powered by electricity. Please, join the campaign and support Ukrainian colleagues do their work.
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If you wish to make your donation go to https://bit.ly/3QVkKYI which was opened by Olena Rzhepishevska, the leader of INNOVA4TB WP for dissemination.
The World TB Day is close and the best advocacy step that is needed right here and right now is the support of the infrastructure for TB and HIV management.
Please consider sharing this link and the message, thank you all!
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INNOVA4TB January 2023
INNOVA4TB Annual Meeting
Our Annual Meeting is almost here!
We are really happy to be able to meet in person this year with all the consortium's partners and beneficiaries to discuss how the project is going and what the next steps are.
Although we would like to see you all in Badalona, if you cannot make it, don't worry, you will be able to participate online if you wish.
You can download the final agenda below.
We hope to see you soon!
INNOVA4TB Annual Meeting
Our Annual Meeting is approaching!
We are really happy to be able to meet in person this year with all the consortium's partners and beneficiaries to discuss how the project is going and what the next steps are.
Although we would like to see you all in Badalona, if you cannot make it, don't worry, you will be able to participate online if you wish.
The final agenda and the registration form will be available soon.
Looking forward to seeing you all!
INNOVA4TB Secondee Summer Day
This year we have our first Summer Secondee Day!
It will be an exciting event where many of our secondees will meet up and, together with other colleagues of the consortium, will give flash talks about their research and experience.
This meeting is an internal event of the consortium.
INNOVA4TB will be present at the A-Patch Final Seminar in Finland on June 7th and 8th
A-Patch is a European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program funded project that aims to research, develop, and validate a novel non-invasive wearable sensing patch for the detection of infectious disease at point-of-care, such as TB, from the skin, with an ability to serve as a monitoring and epidemic control tool.
Check the agenda below and feel free to join us!
For more information about the project and seminar registration visit their website
Due to the situation in Ukraine and considering that 4 of our partners are in Ukraine & Moldova, we are postponing our monthly meetings.
We will resume them as soon as the situation improves.
All our support to our Ukrainian colleagues
Our thoughts are with you
European Performing Science Night (24.09.2021)
Together with other research groups from the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP) in Barcelona (Spain), our colleagues from One & a Half Lab will participate in this year's European Performing Science Night.
The product will be the result of a collaborative workshop between researchers and artists in order to motivate and strengthen public engagement and awareness.
As part of INNOVA4TB, our colleagues will explain certain concepts about tuberculosis which will hopefully make it easier for everyone to understand and relate to the struggles of overcoming this disease and the importance of research in doing so.
INNOVA4TB General Assembly & Scientific Symposium
On June 22, 2021 we will hold our next Scientific Symposium.
The Scientific Symposium will be free and open to everyone, but registration is needed.
Before the symposium, we will have an internal General Assembly where we will discuss different aspects concerning the consortium.
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Below you have the information of both meetings.
Please remember to register for the Scientific Symposium
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We are very honoured to have such a varied panel of experts participating and we are really looking forward to seeing you there!
NGO involvement in tuberculosis response
We are happy to invite you to our next symposium!
It is organized as part of a collaboration with TB-REP 2.0, with the participation of special invited speakers from the WHO European Office.
During the symposium, we will discuss new diagnostic methods and treatment for tuberculosis, anti-tuberculosis health services, and strategies for involving communities in research.
Presentations will be in English with simultaneous translation into Russian and all participants will receive a certificate of participation signed by the organizers.
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Click the image below to download the agenda (in English and Russian)
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Click the image below to access the speakers' information
Register using the QR code or visiting: https://cutt.ly/5vo6Flp
Access the Symposium's recording at:
http://tb-rep.net/Services/Details/40
Symposium's presentations
Please, if you want the presentations in Russian, let us know and we will send them to you!
Mid-Term Meeting
July 7th, 2020
More than a year has gone by and we have so much to tell you!
Join us for our Mid-Term Meeting
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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the meeting will take place online but you will still have the chance to learn what we have been doing this past year and "virtually" meet the work-package leaders and talk to some of the secondees.
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Click on the logo below to access the agenda
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Photos by Andrii Dudnyk and Olena ​Prysiazhna
INNOVATION IN TUBERCULOSIS MANAGEMENT - RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM
June 18th, 2019
Join us for this special symposium!
We will have speakers from many countries dedicated to TB research and also some of the INNOVA4TB secondment participants will tell us about their experience and work done.
The symposium will be dedicated to Ilia Ilf, a famous Odessa writer who died of TB at the age of 39.
Click on the image below to download the preliminary program
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We hope to see you soon!
Location: Odessa Mechnikov National University, Campus “French Boulevard/ Shampanskiy Lane”, Ukraine
SOAPBOX SCIENCE
May 18th, 2019
Soapbox Science is an event to promote Women in Science.
Fun fact: Umeå was the first Swedish city to organize this session.
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INNOVA4TB will be part of the organization crew with Olena Rzhepishevska (WP6 leader) and Ángels Millón (secondment participant).
Click the image below to see and download the programme
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We encourage you to join this session full of interesting talks!
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Time & Location: 11h - 14h at Renmarkstorget (Umeå, Sweden)
2nd ARCTIC MEETING ON CLINICAL TUBERCULOSIS
March 22nd, 2019
The Arctic Meting is a joint meeting for clinical TB researchers and staff, working hands on with TB on a daily basis.
This year INNOVA4TB will attend and there will be lectures, discussions, mingle and team-building activities. The language of the meeting is English.
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Check the preliminary programme and get more information at:
http://www.mims.umu.se/news-events/1908-clinical-tuberculosis-meeting-umea-22-march-2019.html
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Location: Norrland University Hospital, Betula and Common Ground (Umeå, Sweden)
KICK-OFF MEETING
January 24th-25th, 2019
A two-day meeting with the project's partners. We will get to know each other and discuss about management, partnership agreements, secondments, and more.
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Location: Sala Polivalente, IGTP Edificio Mar (Badalona, Spain).