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...
Training in Romania
At the end of March 2024 ECO ran an exciting training course in Bucharest, Romania, for healthcare professionals and parents. The main part of the programme focused on speech, communication and resilience, drawing material from the SCR4Cleft course developed...
Face Equality
The second meeting of our EU Erasmus+-funded Face Equality Training project took place in Sweden at the start of December 2023. The event was hosted by project partner University of Kristianstad. All eight partner countries were present over the...
European Projects
We are delighted to be celebrating the start of a new Erasmus+ funded project – the Face Equality Training project is featured as a news item on our home page. ECO has been involved in many exciting Erasmus+ funded...
Training in Spain
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...
Looking ahead in 2024
For the first time since the launch of ECO in 2007, we are facing a difficult funding situation. The world has changed a lot over the past few years, first impacted heavily by resourcing priorities demanded by Covid 19,...
Training parents in Spain
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...
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...