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In the run-up to the European Year of Active Ageing and the EU-wide reflection process on chronic conditions in 2012, Epposi will be presenting and testing its outline new model at a special one-day conference on 22 November 2011 in Brussels1.

Following a series of public workshops in 2010 to explore new strategies for the management of chronic conditions, Epposi launched its Advanced Innovation Programme in Chronic Conditions Management (AIP-CCM) in April 2011, in collaboration with our multi-stakeholder membership (patients' organisations, academic sciences and the medtech/pharma industries), representatives of payers, healthcare professionals, carers and employers, and observer partners in the EU institutions2 and national ministries3.

The aim is to build a workable, scalable model for chronic conditions management, which takes full account of the medical, socio-economic and technology dimensions, by:

• Benchmarking best practices on CCM across the EU-27 with pilot projects focusing on 10 countries4

• Establishing a European standard

• Making it applicable to the CCM national plans

The 22 November event will showcase the full research results and the first simulation test of the model, using Decide5, an EU-funded experiential learning tool to help organisations, individuals and public administrations find consensus and concrete outcomes to interlinked and multilevel challenges.

Paul Timmers, Director, Directorate H - ICT Addressing Societal Challenges, DG Information Society & Media; and Maria Iglesia-Gomez, Head of Unit, Strategy and International, DG Health and Consumers (SANCO) – the European Commission's leads on the European Innovation Partnership in Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP-AHA) - will also be giving the latest updates on the EIP-AHA in relation to chronic conditions management.

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1  To be held at the Crowne Plaza Brussels Europa Hotel, 107 rue de la Loi, 1040 Brussels
2  European Commission - DGs Health and Consumers, Information Society & Media, Research & Innovation; Members of the European Parliament. Epposi is a formal expert to the Steering Committee of the European Innovation Partnership in Active and Healthy Ageing (EIP-AHA) al expert to the Steering Committee in two key areas: Care and Cure and Horizontal Actions (including indicators, evaluation, funding mechanisms and monitoring of Implementation of the partnership) – the only think tank to be included in the process.
3  Belgian Federal Ministry of Health.Epposi has been cited by the Belgian Federal Ministry of Health as one of only two (EU) initiatives on chronic care with formal collaboration and knowledge-sharing between Epposi content delivery team and Belgian Federal Ministry of Health
4  Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Scotland, Slovakia, Spain