Collaborating Societies

Collaborating Societies

ESCAP – European Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

ESCAP is a not-for-profit association whose purpose is to promote the mental health and wellbeing of children, adolescents and their families. As well as to improve the quality of their lives and to ensure children’s right for support to healthy mental development and for appropriate preventive and therapeutic mental health services and interventions.

ESCAP’s goals are to foster the European knowledge and skills in child psychiatry, to facilitate and extend the bonds between European countries in mental health issues, to spreadthe results of research and experiences and to collaborate with international organizations with the same or related aims.

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ESID – European Society for Immunodeficiencies

ESID’s vision is that of a world in which every child, adolescent and adult with an inborn error of the immune system benefits from both clinical and scientific knowledge allowing them to live their lives to their full potential.

Their mission is to improve the awareness, diagnosis, treatment and understanding of primary immunodeficiency diseases through education, documentation, promotion of best practice guidelines, research and evaluation of patient outcomes.

To achieve these goals, ESID is committed to work jointly with healthcare professionals, patient organisations, industry and governmental bodies. For more information click here.

PNAE – Paediatric Nursing Associations of Europe

The Paediatric Nursing Associations of Europe (PNAE) was established in April 2003 as a regional group of the International Association of Paediatric Nursing. Its aim is to bring together professional organizations for nurses working with children and young people in Europe.

Currently, PNAE is composed of 23 countries across Europe. Each country participates through its national paediatric nursing associations, with PNAE serving as a unified voice to improve paediatric nursing and promote the health of newborns, children, young people, and their families across Europe.

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SIOP – International Society of Paediatric Oncology

SIOP is the only global multidisciplinary society entirely devoted to paediatric and adolescent cancer.
The society has over 3,500 members worldwide including doctors, nurses, other health-care professionals, scientists and researchers. Their members are dedicated to increasing knowledge about all aspects of childhood cancer.

SIOP’s vision is that no child should die of cancer: cure for more, care for all.

Mission: Improve the lives of children and adolescents with cancer through global collaboration, education, training, research and advocacy.

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