European Cleft Organisation

New training

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The first meeting has just taken place in Rijswijk, Netherlands of the new Face Equality Training Project (FET) funded by an Erasmus+ grant. The project has comprised partners from 8 countries and is coordinated by the European Cleft Organisation. The partnership has brought together experts from the Netherlands, Cyprus, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Serbia...

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Training parents in Spain

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We are delighted that despite continuing restrictions with Covid 19 we were able to deliver a training programme to members of the Ficat parent’s group in Barcelona in Saturday 15 January 2022. The group of 17 was very motivated and eager to participate in the course delivered by ECO Executive Director Gareth Davies and...

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New resource for researchers around the world

We are delighted to announce that the UK-based Cleft Collective has now registered on ECO’s European Cleft Gateway The Collective has a huge pool of data that can be accessed (on request) by researchers. The Cleft Collective cohort studies investigate the biological and environmental causes of cleft, the best treatments for cleft and...

Early Care Training Programme

Our Early Cleft Care Training Programme (ECTP), funded by an Erasmus + EU grant, has now sucessfully concluded with all project results appearing on the project website www.cleftectp.com. The project was showcased at the Sophia Children’s Hospital in Rotterdam in October and a full report is available here The project has provided a free...

Speech and resilience project

It is hard to believe nearly 3 years have passed since this project began and now we are organising an event in Amsterdam to promote the outcomes (see above). The project brought together partners from from 9 countries including the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Serbia, Norway, Romania, Estonia, Ireland, Italy and Malta. Speech therapists and psychologists...

Face Equality Week 15 – 19 May 2023

Face Equality Week, championed by Face Equality International (FEI), is this year focusing on counteracting stigma with the #We Will Not Hide campaign. FEI, the organization which works to protect the human rights of people with disfigurements is an Alliance of 36 worldwide non-profits that campaign to promote face equality, seeking to put an...

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