{"id":14560,"date":"2022-03-03T16:26:38","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T14:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?page_id=14560"},"modified":"2025-04-23T18:09:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T16:09:00","slug":"improving-immunisation-cooperation-in-the-european-union-immunion","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?page_id=14560","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Improving IMMunisation cooperation in the European UNION\u2019 (IMMUNION)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Co-financed by the European Union Health Programme (2014-2020) under grant agreement No. 101018210, this 2-year project<\/a> (2021-2023), launched in April 2021, is coordinated by EuroHealthNet. It brings together a diverse consortium of 12 partners, from associations of health professionals (including members of the Coalition for Vaccination (established by the EU in 2019) to national public health institutes, media experts, and researchers, aims to improve vaccine uptake across the EU by providing access to accurate, evidence-based information about vaccination to health professionals and the general public.<\/p>\n\n

The partners in the project are: EurohealthNet<\/a> (BE); Standing Committee of European Doctors<\/a> (CPME) (BE), Pharmaceutical Group of European Union<\/a> (PGEU) (BE); European Federation of Nurses Associations<\/a> (EFN) (BE); University of Antwerp<\/a> (BE); Europa Media<\/a> (HU); Euractiv Poland<\/a> (PL); Instituto Superiore di Sanit\u00e1<\/a> (ISS) (IT); Institutul National de Sanatate Publica<\/a> (INSP) (RO); Centre for Disease Prevention and Control<\/a> (CDPC) (LT); Prolepsis Institute<\/a> (GR); Vienna Vaccine Safety Initiative (VIVI) (DE).<\/p>\n\n

Building on learnings from vaccination efforts at national, regional and global, the IMMUNION project has been conceived and designed to strengthen the existing Coalition for Vaccination<\/a> and improve stakeholder collaboration to increase vaccine uptake across Europe. IMMUNION will specifically increase the visibility and reach of the Coalition for Vaccination through a number of approaches and activities, focused on vaccine communication and education and training of healthcare professionals.<\/p>\n\n

IMMUNION Specific objectives:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

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  1. Dissemination of resources<\/li>\n
  2. Strengthening Coalition for Vaccination<\/li>\n
  3. Increasing training opportunities<\/li>\n
  4. Enhancing collaboration with media<\/li>\n
  5. Improving overall equity in vaccination<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n
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    IMMUNION will implement a range of activities aiming to provide resources and educational opportunities to health professionals and increase the uptake of vaccines, which include:<\/p>\n\n