Mestna občina Maribor

jasmina.dolinsek@maribor.si

+386 2 2201 460

www.maribor.si

Mestna občina Maribor

mojca.ledinek@maribor.si

+386 2 2201 181

www.projekti-maribor.si

Mestna občina Maribor

jasmina.dolinsek@maribor.si

+386 2 2201 460

www.maribor.si

Goran Palčevski

Istarska 43 :: 51000 Rijeka :: Croatia

http://kbc-rijeka.hr/

The Clinical Hospital Centre of Rijeka (HR) is one of five clinical hospital centers in Croatia and is the central hospital in this part of the Republic of Croatia. It is a regional hospital center covering three counties, providing medical care for approximately 600,000 inhabitants. At the same time, the HR is a teaching and scientific-research base of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Rijeka. Besides the management and the administrative-technical services, it consists of 17 clinics, 5 clinical institutes, 6 centers, 4 independent institutes, one independent department and the hospital pharmacy. The total capacity is 1,069 hospital beds and it employs 3082 employees. In the HR more than 45,000 patients are hospitalized per year. The HR is situated on three city locations (Rijeka, Sušak and Kantrida) and the tendency is to develop it – unite it "under one roof" in the newly built hospital in Sušak.

Daniele Sblattero

Piazzale Europa 1 :: 34100 Trieste :: Italy

www.units.it

Department of Life Sciences

University of Trieste is a well-established university with world leading research and teaching institution. The is project is managed by the Department of Life Sciences (DLS) that is involved in the main missions of Research, dissemination, and teaching, in the areas of life sciences and psychology. The Department is currently home to 90 staff member and about 200 non-permanent staff members.

 The activities of the Department span from Biomedicine to Environmental biology. Research is carried out at all levels of complexity from molecules, to cells, tissues and organisms, to their interaction with the environment, and finally to the study of brain mind and behaviour.

 The DLSas a long story of high level scientific activity in the field of Celiac Disease. During the last 15 years it has contributed directly to the development of diagnostic tests for CD, already available in the market.

Marina Milinović, Marijana Smoljan

Drage Gervaisa 52 :: 51000 Rijeka :: Croatia

celiac_rka@yahoo.com

The main purpose of the society is to support and assist celiac disease patients and their families. It includes information about CD and gluten-free diet, monitoring the health status of a patient, with the cooperation of health care professionals. The society is responsible for education of patients and awareness rising of general public about the CD and about the importance of early detection. It is engaged in many regional and national projects in a field of celiac disease, but it is the first time a partner in a transnational project. The FOCUS IN CD project offers a great possibility to strengthen capacity and improve competences of different target groups to offer better support and to meet patient needs as well as to foster systemic changes in the region. The Association of celiac patients of Primorsko - Goranska County will be actively involved in all work packages. 

Tarcisio Not

Via dell’Istria 65/1 :: 34100 Trieste :: Italy

www.burlo.trieste.it

The Institute for Maternal and Child Health “Burlo Garofolo” opened on November 18th 1856. On 1968 it was aknowledged as a Mother and Child Referral Hospital and Research Institute (IRCCS). As IRCCS , it pursues research purposes in the biomedical field and in the organization of health services, innovation in the care models, training and knowledge transfer. The Institute  fosters an intense educational activity, focused on the entire spectrum of paediatrics sciences, over the regional territory and it is national referral centre for autoimmune-immune-mediated disorders and rare diseases, prenatal diagnosis and registries of inherited diseases. It hosts the University Departments of Reproductive and Development Sciences and Public Medicine. A World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Maternal and Child Health was formally recognised.

Sibylle Koletzko, Katharina Werkstetter

Lindwurmstraße 4 :: 80337 München :: Germany

www.klinikum.uni-muenchen.de

The Klinikum der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (KUM) is a center of high-tech medicine. The pediatric gastroenterology unit of the KUM is one of the largest and specialised centers for the diagnosis and therapy of gastrointestinal disorders in Germany. As an expert center for Celiac Disease in children, KUM is the leader of the investigator-initiated Prospective Celiac Disease Diagnostic Evaluation study (ProCeDE), a large collaborative international observational project involving 35 partners in 21 different countries aiming to re-evaluate the possibility to omit the biopsy in selected subgroups. Furthermore, KUM is conducting a pilot survey in Europe concerning the acceptance and implementation of the Celiac Disease and Cow’s milk protein allergy guidelines. KUM is partner in several other studies as e.g. the PreventCD or the TEDDY study.

Tunde Koltai

Palanta utca 11 :: 1025 Budapest :: Hungary

www.liszterzekeny.hu

Hungarian Coeliac Society advocates for the specific interests of coeliac patients since 1990. Our main task is to inform our members about the gluten free diet and lifestyle. It’s important to raise awareness of coeliac disease among the general public, informing them about the symptoms and the ‘funny’ treatment which is the lifelong and strict gluten-free diet. We inform our members about the risks and complications of the untreated disease and the importance of screening the first degree relatives. Our main success is that since 2015 is obliged to provide gluten-free food in public catering for coeliac children.

Since 1992 we are a member of the Association of European Coeliac Societies and we are active in projects and working groups.

Ilma Korponay-Szabo

Üllöi ut 86 :: 1089 Budapest :: Hungary

www.heimpalkorhaz.hu

Heim Pál Children’s Hospital, Budapest is the largest children’s hospital in Hungary with a dedicated celiac disease

center for the integrated care for celiac patients and their families. The Celiac Center accepts all sorts of symptomatic patients for clinical evaluation as well as asymptomatic persons coming for family screening and for the screening in

associated conditions, perfoms the diagnostic procedures and regularly follows the diagnosed patients into adulthood. Currently both children and adults are accepted. It also operates a specialised laboratory for the assessment of celiac antibodies which provides results for more than 15 hospitals in the central and western parts of the country. The Celiac Center is also active in research, has conducted national screenings and has participated in several international and European collaborative research projects.

Berthold Koletzko, Giulia Roggenkamp

Lindwurmstraße 4 :: 80337 München :: Germany

www.kindergesundheit.de

The Child Health Foundation (CHF) is actively involved in the healthy development of children and adolescents. It informs the public on key health issues and, in collaboration with partners and specialists, explains preventive strategies that can be implemented in day care, kindergartens and schools.
The operative implementation of the foundation’s work is based on three pillars:
•    Prevention with programs applicable in practice
•    Competence in the field of health prevention
•    Effective public education
Health promotion and prevention are especially important for children. Nowadays pediatric and adolescent medicine can successfully treat a broad variety of illnesses. Yet, health promotion and the prophylaxis of illnesses still have a long way to go and remain key priorities. Overall, the main goal of the CHF is to ensure the best possible start in life for children.  

Alemka Mirkov

Slogin kula 2/1 :: 51000 Rijeka :: Croatia

www.pgz.hr

The Primorje and Gorski Kotar County is located in the Western part of the Republic of Croatia, at the point of encounter of the blue Northern Adriatic and the green mountainous region of Gorski Kotar. It is the fifth biggest County in Croatia. The Primorje-Gorski Kotar County is a unit of regional self-government encompassing 14 towns and 22 municipalities. The seat of the County is in Rijeka. The County performs its activities through 12 departments with regional competences dealing with spatial and urban planning, regional development, tourism, entrepreneurship, rural development, sports, culture, technical culture, youth, planning and development of network of educational, health, social and cultural institutions. As regional authority, the County is responsible for the activities that refer to organized measures to prevent disease, promote health and prolong life expectancy of the population, and it will be involved as a regional decision maker and partner contributing to the regional health care.

Jasmina Dolinšek, Mojca Ledinek

Ulica heroja Staneta 1 :: 2000 Maribor :: Slovenia

www.maribor.si

www.projekti-maribor.si

The City Municipality of Maribor (MOM) independently performs local affairs of public importance. It is a fundamental self-governing local community consisting of the city of Maribor and 33 other settlements. Its regular activities include economy, public utilities, transport, environment, space, culture, education, health and social care and sport. Within its powers, the city municipality is also the founder or co-founder of public institutions through which it provides conditions for functioning of associations, interest groups and individuals. The city municipality employees app. 270 persons; the income in 2015 amounted to EUR 100 million. The Office of project development, focused on preparation of project applications, management, implementation and reporting of European projects, the lead partner of the Focus in CD project, is responsible for management and communication.

Jernej Dolinšek

Ljubljanska ulica 5 :: 2000 Maribor :: Slovenia

www.ukc-mb.si

The University Medical Centre Maribor is a public healthcare institution, founded in 1799, providing secondary and tertiary healthcare service in north-eastern Slovenia. The founder of the University Medical Centre Maribor is the Republic of Slovenia. It serves as a teaching and training facility for the Medical Faculty and Faculty of Health Sciences of University of Maribor, and as a postgraduate teaching and training facility for trainees in all medical subspecialties.

The hospital employs approximately 3064 staff members, 542 of whom are medical doctors and 1836 associated healthcare professionals, and has 1323 beds.

Annually, about 60,000 patients are treated as inpatients and almost 400,000 as outpatients in different sub-speciality units and 270 different outpatient clinics.
The Division of Paediatrics with its Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition Unit is a referral centre for children with acute and chronic gastrointestinal diseases. Its Celiac disease working group is responsible for medical care of celiac children from north-eastern Slovenia as well as from other regions. It hosts a seat of the Slovene Celiac Disease Society.

It collaborates with several celiac centres abroad and has been involved in many national and international celiac disease research projects.

Institute for comprehensive development solutions

Anja Prislan, Ksenija Napast

Čučkova ulica 5 :: 2250 Ptuj :: Slovenia

http://www.ezavod.si/

E-institute is a non-profit institute in Slovenia with mission to improve human well-being through sustainable development. Our activities are implemented through projects focusing on business support, open innovation, social innovation and low carbon society. We believe cooperation and co-creation is the key for solving the challenges of modern world. Our key competences are in open innovation, living labs, sustainability assessments, energy efficiency and renewable energy. Recent focus of E-institute’s work has been done to support Smart communities and develop regional economy towards Innovation 2.0 concept and bring it even on the higher level.
E-institute team is multidisciplinary with rich experiences in project management. E-institute
cooperates with the most important Slovenian public authorities, private sector and
research institutes. Over last 5 years E-institute was partner or lead partner in 17 EU funded
projects bringing together more than 100 partners from 20 EU member states.