We were delighted to pilot our Speech Communication and Resilience project in Valencia, Spain, at the the start of July 2023. Overall costs were covered by Smile Train and the venue was provided by the Luís Alcanyís-Universitat de València Foundation Dental Clinic...
The first meeting of the Face Equality Training Project (FET) took place in Rijswijk, Netherlands in January 2023. FET is funded by an Erasmus+ grant. The project comprises partners from 8 countries and is coordinated by the European Cleft...
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...
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...
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...
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...
To date we have worked with partners in Bulgaria, Greece, Lithuania, Latvia, Romania, Spain, Serbia and Slovenia. We have been invited to carry out training in Macedonia and Ukraine and all these countries will be prioritized in our plans...
ECO has been working with a partner, the Bulgarian Association of Children with Clefts and their Parents (ALA), in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, since 2009. ALA is a registered charity which supports the work of the cleft team at St George’s...
In Romania ECO is pleased to report the continuing activities of RomaniaCleft, especially in developing dialogue with other countries on all aspects of cleft care. RomaniaCleft, set up in 2012 two years ago as Romania’s first national multidisciplinary cleft...
Following an information meeting with the newly-established federation of Spanish patient support groups, we ran a pilot ‘front-line’ nurse/midwife training course in Bilbao in January 2013. The cleft team were keen to support this and have a long history...