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The Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2014-15 sets out the funding opportunities under the different parts of the programme; all are being published today on the Participant Portal. Each part describes the overall objectives, the respective calls, and the topics within each call. Each topic describes the challenge to be addressed, the scope of the activities to be carried out, and the expected impacts to be achieved. Compared with the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), there are relatively fewer calls and topics.

12 - 13 May 2014, Istanbul, Turkey.
Next May Istanbul will be the setting for a truly exciting conference and exhibition - the first time the Turkish Ministry of Health and HIMSS host a joint conference. HIMSS Turkey is already generating high levels of press interest and attention, as it promises to be a highly-informative gathering of both local as well as global IT decision makers. If you are interested in the future of health informatics in this emerging market, you should already have HIMSS Turkey in your plans for 2014.

The European Commission has for the first time presented calls for projects under Horizon 2020, the European Union's €80 billion research and innovation programme. Worth more than €15 billion over the first two years, the funding is intended to help boost Europe's knowledge-driven economy, and tackle issues that will make a difference in people's lives. This includes 12 areas that will be a focus for action in 2014/2015, including topics such as personalised healthcare, digital security and smart cities.

Today the EU-funded Antilope project released guidance documents and educational material to further eHealth interoperability in Europe. The documents build on the European Commission’s eHealth Interoperability Framework Study released in July 2013, and are intended for national, regional or project based deployments. They offer guidance and definitions including (1) a set of clinical use cases, (2) a quality management approach for eHealth solutions, (3) an overview of available testing tools, and (4) a suggested approach to quality-label or to certify eHealth solutions.

6 - 8 May 2014, Berlin, Germany.
mHealth Summit Europe brings together global leaders in government, the private sector, industry, academia, providers and not-for-profit organizations from across the mHealth ecosystem. A distinguished faculty of international experts and opinion leaders will address and discuss the themes such as: mobility in chronic disease management, mobility in elderly care management and privacy and security of data.

Microscopy, being relatively easy to perform at low cost, is the universal diagnostic method for detection of most globally important parasitic infections. Methods developed in well-equipped laboratories are, however, difficult to maintain at the basic levels of the health care system due to lack of adequately trained personnel and resources.

2 - 4 April 2014, Nice, France.
Registration is now open for next landmark European health informatics conference and exhibition - World of Health IT Conference & Exhibition 2014 (WoHIT14). What's even better - by registering soon you will be able to secure substantial savings, under our special SuperSaver discount scheme that runs until the end of January.