CRPRC Studiorum’s team started the activities in the global “Right to Health Litigation Project”. The project was initiated by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, Mr. Anand Grover, and is coordinated by the Lawyers Collective, India.
The Second Annual Scientific Conference of the Regional Research Promotion Programme (RRPP) this year will take place in June, 25-27, 2010 in Durres, Albania. The conference will bring together over 90 participants from 16 countries from the region, Europe and overseas countries. Researchers, including researchers working on RRPP-supported research projects will present their work in five parallel workshops.
As part of the Regional Research Promotion Programme (RRPP) series of methodology colloquiums, a member of CRPRC Studiorum research team attended the second research methods colloquium on analysis of secondary data which took place in Prishtina Kosovo on the 27-28 May, 2010.
Having health policies, health of minority communities and especially health of Roma as part of its main focus of work, CRPRC Studiorum strives to actively participate in events on global level organized on these topics in order to contribute to and share its research findings and experiences. As part of these efforts, two of CRPRC Studiorum’s researchers will take part in the 3rd Conference on Migrant and Ethnic Minority Health in Europe to be held in Pecs, Hungary 27-29 May 2010.
CRPRC Studiorum is taking part in the activities within the frame of 2010 – European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion. The project “Cooperation for Poverty Reduction” (COPORE) aims at drawing the attention to health inequalities, related to disadvantaged groups, and aims to develop new competences and approaches in higher education focusing on affordable health care, health literacy and empowerment of the client and their community.
CRPRC Studiorum is one of the recipients of 2010/11 research grants, awarded by the Regional Research Promotion Programme (RRPP), which is managed by the University of Fribourg and financed by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC). RRPP in the Western Balkans aims at establishing and strengthening research capacities in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia.
The Pearl of Wisdom Awards represents a recognition of the people and organizations that have made exceptional efforts to prevent cervical cancer in their communities. CRPRC Studiorum as part of the Macedonian team received this recognition for the Progressive Implementation of an Organized Cervical Cancer Screening Program.