EU Parliament meeting
ECO was delighted to be a key participant in a delegation to the European Parliament on 27 February 2018. The breakfast event, hosted by MEP Sean Kelly and attended by a diverse audience of other MEPs and policy makers,...
ECO at 10 years
It is hard to believe that we are celebrating our 10th anniversary. Although it does seem a long time since a small group of us met in Anton Vorderman’s front room in the Hague to discuss ECO’s remit and...
Online Training
We are delighted to announce the continuation and expansion of our new online training. Mid May we started a 5 module online specialist cleft nursing training course for nurses in Russian – targeting Russia and neighbouring countries. More than...
Smile Train Grant
We are delighted that Smile Train has awarded ECO a grant to help us develop our work in three key project areas over the coming year: training, advocacy, and awareness. With the constraints of the current global pandemic, we...
International Face Equality week
This year marks the second International Face Equality Week, spearheaded by Face Equality International. Global charities, from Taiwan to South Africa through North and Latin America will join forces to continue campaigning for a better, fairer world for people...
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. We were awarded a high score of 83% by an external...
New Media Guidelines
A new International Media Standard on Disfigurement has been launched today by Face Equality International, the global alliance representing people with facial disfigurements. The European Cleft Organisation is a founder member of Face Equality International. ...
Groundbreaking new speech project
The kick-off meeting for an exciting new Erasmus+ project has just taken place at ECO’s head office in Rijswijk on Wednesday 20 November 2019. 17 participants attended from 9 partner countries including the Netherlands, Bulgaria, Serbia, Norway, Romania, Estonia,...
Face Equality Week
The campaign by Face Equality International (FEI) for face equality has becomes a global movement with the first International Face Equality Week beginning on 17 May 2019. A week of awareness-raising events, media coverage and social media activity has...
ECO in the US
Executive Director Gareth Davies has just returned from the 76th Congress of the American Cleft Palate Craniofacial Association in Arizona where he was showcasing some of ECO’s projects. In particular he presented papers on two Erasmus + funded grant...
Cleft Nurses in Bulgaria
ECO has just participated in a review meeting of the Bulgarian cleft nurse network in Plovdiv 18-19 January 2019. The network of 15 nurses is a unique resource developed by ECO and the Bulgarian parent association ALA to support...
New EU project
A new EU Erasmus+ funded project aimed at helping health professionals better support children and adults with disfiguring conditions kicked off in Thessaloniki, Greece on 15 December. The two-year project comprises partners from Estonia, Greece, Cyprus, Norway, Romania, Slovenia,...