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Le programme Euromed (Union pour le Mediterranée) Dr. Pasqualino Rossi

Marseille, 3-4 November 2008 Approval of the final declaration Participants 27 EU Member States 12 Mediterranean Countries 3 Balcanic Countries Monaco Observers Arab League Libia Main Fields of Cooperation Political and security dialogue Economic and Financial partnership (Information Society and e-health) Social, human and cultural cooperation (including health) EUROMED

EUROMED: the EU Directive 1. Political and Security Dialogue 1.1 Political and Security Dialogue 1.2 Confidence building measures - Civil protection 1.3 Maritime safety 2. Economic and Financial Partnership 2.1 Towards the establishment of a Euro-Mediterranean Free Trade Area 2.2 Energy and the Mediterranean Solar Plan 2.3 Transport and the motorways of the sea 2.4 Sustainable urban development 2.5 Environment and de-pollution of the Mediterranean and maritime governance 2.6 Water 2.7 Mediterranean Business Development Initiative (MBDI) 2.8 Economic cooperation 2.9 Information society, administrative reform and e-government 2.10 Tourism 2.11 Industrial cooperation 2.12 Cooperation in statistics 2.13 Agriculture 3. Social, Human and Cultural Cooperation 3.1 Employment and social dimension 3.2 Technical education, vocational training and equal opportunities 3.3 Health 3.4 Towards a Euro-Mediterranean Higher Education Area, Euro-Mediterranean University 3.5 Research 3.6 Promoting dialogue between cultures, cultural diversity and access to local culture 3.7 Strengthening the role of women in society 3.8 Cooperation with civil society and local actors 3.9 Enhancing the visibility of the partnership 4. Justice, Freedom and Security Health, the new priority

The Barcelona process: Union for the Mediterranean (EuroMed) Objectives: Promoting sustainable development through improving human health; Enhancing co-ordination of international activities between participants; Improving their capacity to set priorities in health in the fields of communicable and non-communicable diseases; Helping to ensure equal access to quality care on a sustainable basis for their populations by strengthening healthcare systems.

EuroMed: the Italian Initiatives 5 projects already financed and signed by the MoH: 1. Cardiovascular diseases: congenital heart diseases 2. EUROMED Cancer Registries Network 3. Cancer screening and early diagnosis program 4. MEDICEL: food-induced diseases. Celiac disease 5. Mediterranean Transplant Network

1 - Cardiovascular diseases: congenital heart diseases OBJECTIVES: To help diagnosis and treatment of cardio-vascular and cardiac congenital diseases; To describe epidemiology of congenital hearth diseases in the involved Countries; To favour the creation of a national pediatric cardiosurgery centre in each partner Country.

2 - EUROMED Cancer Registries Network OBJECTIVE: To set up an international cooperation for cancer registration between Countries of Mediterranean rim, in order to improve the production of cancer monitoring data and to compare data between areas.

3 - Cancer screening and early diagnosis programme Objectives  To develop a strategy of cancer prevention in Mediterranean Countries  To train dedicated decision makers selected from Ministries of Health, academic institutes, among health providers of participating countries in the decision making processes in the field of cancer screening, particularly on how to decide when screening is justified, as well as on how to decide on the most suitable screening measures for his/her own country

4 - MEDICEL: food-induced diseases. Celiac disease OBJECTIVES 1. Capacity building and development of guidelines far the care of food induced disease in infants and children 2. Establishment of a Mediterranean network to share know how and technology far the diagnosis and management of food induced disease in children, with special attention to the pandemic of wheat gluten intolerance (celiac disease) 3. Development of local sustainable strategies to support the dietary care of children affected by food induced diseases 4. Identification of genetic and environmental risk factors far food induced intolerance in children 5. Develop preventive measures to reduce the burden of food induced diseases in children

5 - Mediterranean Transplant Network OBJECTIVES  Setting up of a network involving national and regional transplant centre and transfer ofmodels and policies in their Countries in order to substantially increase and improve organ donation, procurement and transplantation activities  State of the art of the needs of the participating countries  Definition of Models for transplant organization consistent with international guidelines  Setting up of an IT collaborating networking allowing the exchange of information and activity data  Definition of training programs for healthcare professionals in the field