Initiatives that make a difference: Inform – Prevent. World Stroke Day falls on the 29^th of October each year. It has been marked as a day of global action and awareness of stroke and its burden on millions of people worldwide, directly or indirectly affected. It is also the perfect day to focus on campaigns that aim to have an impact by influencing policies towards a further improvement of the stroke care system. Many regions across Europe have joined the cause by organizing events to raise awareness on stroke. In Spain, informative events and initiatives took place in Catalonia, Community of Madrid, Seville, Navarra and Valencia.

ICTUSnet is pleased to invite you to the second thematic workshop on the current and future challenges of endovascular stroke treatment, which will take place on the 5th of September in Nice (France), following the work done under WP5 “Knowledge exchange, collaboration and mutual learning”. The objective is to discuss innovative remedies to tackle some of the upcoming challenges for endovascular stroke treatment with all the health professionals involved in the sector. The workshop will include brief presentations on three different topics by some of the ICTUSnet partners and invited experts, followed up by open discussion within the participants on the specific topic. The agenda will be as follows:

[text in Spanish] El miércoles, 5 de junio, el Colegio de Médicos de Navarra acogió la formación especializada “Toma de decisiones y manejo de la fase aguda del ictus”, organizado por el Departamento de Salud del Gobierno de Navarra, en colaboración con la iniciativa Angels, y liderado por la Dra. Nuria Aymerich, coordinadora de la Unidad de Ictus del Complejo Hospitalario de Navarra (CHN).

The ICTUSnet project was presented in the 5th European Stroke Organization Conference (ESOC) that took place in Milan (Italy) on May 22-24 2019. Members of the ICTUSnet network exposed the objectives, methods, results and expectations of the project during an e-Poster session. ESOC is the premier European forum for stroke research and rapidly becoming the world’s foremost platform for the release of major trial data.

[text in Spanish] Fundació Ictus, socio de ICTUSnet, participó el pasado jueves 9 de mayo en la reunión regional de la Stroke Alliance for Europe (SAFE). El encuentro, que tuvo lugar en París, reunió a las organizaciones de Irlanda, Reino Unido, Escocia, Francia, Holanda y Grecia para compartir el trabajo realizado por cada entidad en el último año.