On Wednesday, April 9 and Thursday, April 10, the CoEHAR of the University of Catania will host a Romanian delegation from the National Institute of Public Health (INSP) of the Romanian government.
The General Director of INSP, Dr. Simona Parvu, will meet with the leadership of CoEHAR — its founder, Prof. Riccardo Polosa, and its Director, Prof. Giovanni Li Volti — to discuss potential future collaborations aimed at launching projects focused on tobacco harm reduction policies in Romania as well, and to jointly develop new programming lines for the Horizon Europe 2025 Work Programme.
The visit will also provide an opportunity to showcase the latest technological and scientific innovations developed at CoEHAR. Researchers from the Center, coordinated by Prof. Massimo Caruso, will present to the Romanian delegation the advanced tools and innovative research methodologies employed within CoEHAR’s scientific protocols.
These same methodological protocols, as is well known, have been standardized and replicated in seven other countries around the world. In recent years, these nations have collaborated with Sicilian researchers on international research projects that have definitively paved the way for new approaches in the treatment of smoking-related diseases, ensuring the effectiveness of tools and therapies aimed at harm reduction.
Also attending from INSP in Catania will be Dr. Teodora Vremera and Ms. Maria-Teodora Savu, both research specialists at the Romanian governmental institution.
The group of researchers will focus on analyzing the programming lines of the European Commission’s strategic plan aimed at funding research and innovation projects designed to develop support tools for public health policies in European countries, particularly on topics such as emerging diseases and population aging.
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