We were very pleased to receive the message that, after careful evaluation by the Board of Directors of DIPEx international, our application and the team presented in it were rated as high quality and we were unanimously accepted as a new member country of the DIPEx network.
DIPEx International is a unique global collaboration of scientists, physicians and patients who are committed to enriching people’s understanding of health, healthcare and disease experiences and bringing this new knowledge to the world through qualitative research.
On 24 June 2021, the country coordinator for Slovakia in RIVER-EU project, Daniela Filakovska, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University (UPJS) in Košice, spoke at the online workshop ‘Finding sustainable funding to build health equity in Europe’. The workshop aimed to bring together national and local Roma and pro-Roma civil society organisations, public health stakeholders, NGOs working with vulnerable groups and research institutes willing to establish cross-sectoral and transnational cooperation.
During the meeting, Daniela presented objectives of the RIVER-EU project, with a special focus on work that will take place in Slovakia. Throughout the project, the colleagues at the UPJS will study health system barriers and enablers to increase the HPV vaccination uptake in Roma population in Slovakia. Tailored to the specific context of Slovakia, an intervention proven-to work elsewhere will be piloted in the country. To learn more about the work in Slovakia, read the descriptions of the:
On 10th December our PhD. students Veronika Pacutova and Viktorya Karchynskaya met with Mette Toftager, who is a researcher at the Faculty of Health, National Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark and also project manager of the HBSC research collaborating with WHO Regional Office for Europe. It is a cross-national study, where the data are collected every 4 years in 50 countries across Europe and North America, as well as in Slovakia for years 2021/2022. Interest of the research is in daily physical activity, bullying, peer support, sexual behaviour, tobacco use, feeling low and more… Regarding this meeting, they discussed physical activity and differences among Danish and Slovak adolescents.
On 9th December our PhD student Veronika Pacutova met with Lasse Skafte Vestergaard, who is Senior Medical Officer at the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Prevention, Staten Serum Institut in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is also project coordinator of EuroMOMO, which provides weekly mortality activity, aiming to detect and measure excess deaths related to seasonal influenza, pandemics and other public health threats among 29 European countries. The project is also supported by the ECDC and WHO. Unfortunately, Slovakia is still not cooperating so we hope it will change in the future as EuroMOMO will gladly welcome us.
The International Student Congress Of (bio)Medical Sciences (ISCOMS) is the world’s leading student congress in the field of (bio)medical sciences. ISCOMS is Europe’s largest biomedical student congress and attracts more participants each year. Last year we received 664 abstracts from students from 66 different countries.
This year, the 29th edition will take place from the 8th until the 10th of June 2022.
Students can visit the congress both as presenting and non-presenting participant. ISCOMS offers a scientific programme with a pre-course on mastering your research and three congress days in which student presentation sessions (plenary, oral, and poster), interactive workshops, a patient lecture and a surgical operation will take place. Furthermore, during the congress you can attend keynote lectures including Nobel prize laureate 2011, prof. Bruce Beutler MD, as well as prof. Jeffrey Friedman MD PhD, prof. Karl Diesseroth MD PhD, prof. Roel Nusse PhD and prof. Hanneke Schuitemaker PhD.
During ISCOMS, students can explore PhD opportunities at the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) with our ISCOMS Research Fellowships (IRF). The IRF is a challenging two week programme, in which students may actively participate in research at one of the UMCG Research Institutes and gather a great deal of knowledge related to the topic of research. As a student, you get the chance to perform research at a leading institute, meet top researchers, and learn about the possibilities of doing a PhD-programme in the Netherlands. Many foreign students were able to start a PhD-programme in the UMCG due to the IRF. The IRF are available for presenting participants exclusively. ISCOMS 2022 will take place in Groningen at the UMCG.
The main focus of the congress will be on physical participation, but several elements will take place digitally as well. Furthermore, we will host ISCOMS 2022 in Groningen within the confines of the COVID-19 measures of the Netherlands. Thus, irrespective of the COVID-19 situation, ISCOMS 2022 will definitely take place!
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Are you interested in presenting your research at ISCOMS? Send in your abstract. The abstract submission is open from the 18th of October until the 30st of January 2022. Each student is allowed to submit up to two abstracts. Abstracts can be submitted on our website www.iscoms.com.
For more information, please visit our website, Facebook page and Instagram page. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at iscoms@umcg.nl
Our colleague Jaroslava Kopčáková attended a work meeting on 7th December 2021connected to electronic media communication and its association to leisure time, self image and well-being among adolescents with colleagues and experts within this topic from Europe and North America.
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