Smart Health Age-Friendly Environments are the purpose of the SHAFE Foundation. NWA has the great honour of participating in the EU Week for Sustainable and Inclusive Communities: the future is SHAFE – taking place October 1-3, 2024.

NWA participated with a presentation on “Looking at the future: health and wellbeing European citizens” and talk about trust, accountability and KPIs, about cross-sector collaboration, and about horizon scanning as a tool for strategy and progress.

Read more at the event site here – or read about the SHAFE Foundation here and their amazing work explore and promote age-friendly progress in Europe.

The Future of Trust? NWA participated in the Tour de Health 2024 organised by Healthcare Denmark to present its work on establishing a KPI model to assess quality and progress in multistakeholder partnerships, especially for mission-driven ones.

The Tour de Health 2024 gathered health care and life science stakeholders from 13 diplomatic missions in Copenhagen to learn from Danish experiences and share their own in trying to work with complex issues in the some times challenging world multistakeholder platforms. The event was a great opportunity to also dive deep into the issue of trust and transformation with both Danish Life Science Cluster community partners (Nordic Healthcare Group, Novo Nordisk, and Lundbeck) and also global partners (Global Health Literacy Academy), trans-Atlantic (Engage Nova Scotia), European (EUREGHA), and Danish (Prescient).

It also gave a good opportunity for further dialogue about the nature of collaboration – gathering also feedback from Canadian Ambassador Carolyn Bennet, Head of Impact at Novo Nordisk Foundation Thomas Alslev Christensen, Professor at the University of Copenhagen Maria Kristiansen, Country Director Denmark Johnson & Johnson Julie Brooker, and Deputy CEO Rigshospitalet Martin Magelund Rasmussen. Find all of the videos here.

The theme of EHFG 2024 was the shifting sands of health – a core challenge for health and wellbeing in Europe is the ever shifting strategic interests of health in both the Member States and in the EU.

The policy forum in Gastein offers a unique opportunity to connect with organisations and policy makers – check out both recordings, presentations, themes, photos and more at ehfg.org

NWA participated in both networking events and facilitated both workshop session environmental determinants for health in EU policy – and also helped crowd source input on ideation for Commission and Parliament on future health policy.

NWA Lars Münter was invited to join the inaugural session of the EU Consortium for Cancer Prevention – the EU CCP. The EU CCP has been created to work as a stronger engagement engine for the efforts across EU to create better prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and overall mortality and wellbeing outcomes for cancer.

The EU CCP has been setup by the JA PreventNCD that is the largest Joint Action to date. In collaboration with JACARDI (Joint Action on cardiovascular disease) and WHO Europe.

Read more about the many initiatives and events in JA PreventNCD here.

NWA participated in the 15th edition of the ECW Conference (Energy, Creative Collaboration, and Wellbeing in Organisations) in Pasturo Italy in June 2024 – a gathering organised by the Il Nodo Group.

(see https://www.ilnodogroup.it/en/event/ecw-2024-group-relations-conference/)

The event was a very insightful experience into the Tavistock Method also in addition to a combination of sensory and engaging exercises in the beautiful landscape near Lake Como.

NWA learned a lot about diversity of cultural and organisational perceptions regarding group relations in the very global gathering of participants (hailing from China, Kazakhstan, Iran, UK, Denmark, Colombia, USA, Finland, Estonia, Russia, France, Australia, and Italy of course) – besides also sharing a lot of experiences across countries in terms of food, song, dance, and more.

NESEI – Network of European Social Entrepreneurs and Innovators launched!

NWA participated in a great event in Brussels April 2024 to connect organisations, minds, and ideas on social progress. More to come from the network – read more (and join!) here.