CAM out – CAM in!

af Jesper Madsen | jan 16, 2007 | Diverse

The Seventh Framework Programme, FP7, is including CAM issues – but CAM is not included in the first two calls in 2007.

Monday, December 18th in Brussels, the President of the European Parliament, Josep Borrell and the Finnish Prime Minister, Matti Vanhanen signed the Framework Programme, and the Specific Programmes were adopted by the Council on December 19th.

The programme was entering into force on 1 January 2007. Theme no 1 in the work programme is health – including “scientifically tested complementary and alternative medicines”. But in the 1st and 2nd call of 2007 CAM topics are not included nor suitable.

Please check these links:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/fp7/home_en.html

The following link is so long it does not fit. Please cut and paste into your browser, dont forget to remove the two “return keys”!

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/expert/infopress_page/
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A group of European CAM-researchers joining the Euricam initiative are planning to launch research projects within FP7. This was decided at the Euricam meeting in Vienna, Nov. 20th 2006.

Due to the conditions in the first two calls in FP7, the researchers propose to submit a postgraduate education program, as a Marie Curie action

More information may be available at Euricam after the next meeting in Vienna, Jan 19th, or from Akademie für Ganzheitsmedizin, ">

International congress in May

af Jesper Madsen | dec 27, 2006 | Diverse

The International Congress on Complementary Medicine Research will take place May 11-13 2007 in München, Germany.
The congress is organized by Centre for Complementary Medicine Research, TU München, in cooperation with The International Society for Complementary Medicine Research, ISCMR.

Further information at www.cmr-muc2007.de

Note: Early Registration until March 1, 2007 (pay less!)

CCESCAM research projects

af Jesper Madsen | dec 21, 2006 | Diverse

Centre for Cross-disciplinary Evaluation Studies in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (read more at www.galilei.dk/?page_id=16)

Dansk introduktion til CCESCAM

The research projects:

1. CCESCAM – background and funding
CAM use in Europe and the US, brief overview
Research focus and methodologies

2.1 Aarhus-team, under supervision of Robert Zachariae
2.1.1 CAM and Quality of Life (QoL)
2.1.2 CAM and mechanisms – experimentally induced myalgia
Project 2.1.2 is a post-doc-study conducted by Lene Vase under the supervision of Robert Zachariae and Anders Bonde Jensen.
2.1.3 The effect of acupuncture on palliative care
2.2 Odense-team, under supervision of Anette Damkier
2.2.1 Use and effect of CAM in cancer patients
2.2.2 Complementary medicine for cancer in Italy, India and Denmark – a comparative study of relations between agency, experience and socio-cultural structures of health care.
2.2.3 Implications of therapeutic emplotment in conventional and in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) for cancer patients’ illness narratives and experience of quality of life.
2.3 Analysis of the supply of complementary and alternative medical treatments (CAM)
2.4 CCESCAM-VID: Knowledge-sharing, -representation and -conceptualisation in an interdisciplinary environment.

Participants

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About CCESCAM

Project specification (pdf)