STAMINA Press Announcement: Testing STAMINA tools in the Romanian Trial
On December 7th, 2022, the Institute of Virology, Bucharest -Romania held an event testing 10 STAMINA tools in a table top exercise simulating a pandemic. The trial was attended by 53 people; 19 STAMINA partners and 34 partners from Romania including project partners, representatives from the Romanian authorities with responsibilities in the management of pandemics […]
STAMINA Press Announcement: STAMINA tool testing during the Austrian Trial
On October 17th, the main part of the Austrian STAMINA trial was conducted in two independent runs, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. The aim of the trial was to simulate a contact tracing situation during a COVID-19-pandemic, involving patients and employees of the rescue organisation Johanniter Unfallhilfe in Austria. One […]
STAMINA Press Announcement: French trial – a crisis simulation training in La Timone Hospital, Marseille, France
About one hundred participants attended a crisis simulation training in Marseille, on October 12, 2022. Two crisis management meetings were held in the morning, as emergency services gathered in the afternoon for a field training to assess decision-making and patients circuits in the scenario of a measles outbreak among under-vaccinated people. The French trial was […]
STAMINA Press announcement: Tunisian partners hold workshop and trial demonstration for national stakeholders
Within the framework of the STAMINA project, the Tunisian Ministry of Health (ONMNE) organized a Tunisian stakeholder workshop and a Trial demonstration of the STAMINA tools on 26 July 2022. The main objective of this workshop was to present to our different national stakeholders and decision-makers the objectives of the project as well as the […]
STAMINA Press Announcement: STAMINA tool testing during the Czech trial
On 21 June 2022, one of the main exercises of the EU-funded STAMINA project took place. It used and evaluated several diagnostic devices for first-line screening developed within the framework of this international project. All the developed tools should primarily help to manage pandemic situations. Units of the Fire Rescue Service and the Medical Rescue […]
Press Announcement: The STAMINA project for pandemic management’s simulation exercise in Valencia, Spain
On the 17th of May 2022, the first trial to test the STAMINA project’s tools purpose-built to support pandemic decision making was held in Valencia, Spain. These decision support technologies are intended for the prediction and management of pandemics within and beyond the borders of the European Union. The tools tested in this demonstration were as follows: […]
Press announcement: STAMINA meets with the Coordination Centre for Health Alerts and Emergencies
In the lead up to completing the first year of the STAMINA project, our network has grown significantly from where we started. We are now proud to have an international group of stakeholders following the project’s progress. In July 2021, two members of the STAMINA consortium met with Mr. Fernando Simón, an epidemiologist and Director of […]
Press announcement: Countering pandemics – STAMINA gives joint response to the EU on health emergency preparedness and response
In response to the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the EU has drawn a revived focus on how to better prepare for future pandemic crises. In March 2021, the European Commission launched an online public consultation on the Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA). The purpose of the consultation is to gather knowledge […]
Press announcement: New EU-funded project launched to build smart support platform for pandemic prediction and management
Infectious diseases have the potential to result in serious cross-border public health threats. Management of this type of crisis remains a serious challenge due to the number of people involved, the different legal, administrative, professional and political cultures, and the lack of transboundary crisis management infrastructures. In response to this, 37 organisations from across the […]