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Outreach Programme
Coordinator: Anna Novials Sardá
CIBERDEM goes on with its dual strategic aim of disclosing to society the scientific content generated by research groups to increase people’s knowledge of diabetes and at the same time to enhance knowledge about CIBERDEM itself in national and international research community.
Some of the main outreach activities for social dissemination that could be mentioned are CIBERDEM’s participation in:
• Diabetes Experience Day (13 February), a forum for people with diabetes, relatives and medicine professionals, where CIBERDEM made known its structure and organisation, as well as its lines of research. The meeting arranged by Canal Diabetes, a social channel with great diffusion capacity, brought over 1000 people together.
• World Diabetes Day (14 November), taking part in the activities arranged in Spain’s different “autonomous communities”.
• #Improciencia (16 November), a CIBER dissemination initiative as part of the Science Week, at which CIBERDEM presented the project entitled “generation of Beta cells” in a theatre improvisation format.
CIBERDEM has close relations with the following patients’ associations:
• Federación Española de Diabetes: CIBERDEM informs about its research activities in diabetes through the CIBERDEM Space in the journal entitled DiabetesFEDE. This year they had six interviews with principal CIBERDEM researchers.
• DiabetesCero, a movement of parents of children with diabetes and adults with the aim of monitoring and funding research into diabetes. A flow of information between CIBERDEM and DiabetesCERO has been set up. CIBERDEM groups with lines of research into type 1 diabetes prepared material on their lines of research which was made available to DiabetesCero and is currently found on its WEB page.
• Local and regional associations of patients with diabetes, with which CIBERDEM cooperated in different dissemination activities.
Some of the nationwide scientific communication activities worthy of mention are the presentation on the structure, organisation and scientific activities of CIBERDEM, given by the Scientific Director in the framework of the VII Reunión Anual Lilly en Diabetes held in Madrid on 1 October with the attendance of a large number of endocrinologists from all over the country.
On the international scale, and with the aim of reinforcing CIBERDEM’S presence in the scientific community, contact has been made this year with EURADIA, The Alliance for European Diabetes Research, a European alliance of scientific societies and pharmaceutical industry with a common interest in diabetes. CIBERDEM took part in the EURADIA Summer Meeting (13 July) and has applied to join as a member of the alliance.
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