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. ...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
Executive Director Gareth Davies has been promoting the patient’s voice at two meetings of the new European Reference Networks in Uppsala in Sweden and in Brussels. The Networks were established in 2017 to bring together specialists in rare diseases...
The European Cleft Organisation (ECO) is pleased to be a founder member of a new global charity which launched on 5 November. Face Equality International, (FEI) is a unique alliance of charities and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) which want to...
Executive Director Gareth Davies was in Bucharest, Romania, attending the third transnational meeting of the Cutting Edge project, a programme supported by an Erasmus + grant and headed up by the University of Kristianstadin Sweden. Other partners include Norway, Romania, Bulgaria,...
The first conference of the new EU funded Action (COST 16234) looking at patient access to cleft care across Europe took place in Niš, Serbia on 14 and 15 September. ECO is driving this programme which aims to ensure that...