Dear colleagues, participants in the PHOENIX TN (Thematic Network) on European Health and Social Welfare Policies,
although this is our bulletin news number 5, it is number 1 for some of you, those who have become participants last month after your institution applied to become a PHOENIX TN partner for the period 2002-2003. You are most welcome. Thank you very much for your interest in our main aim and activities.
Here is the list of new partner institutions within PHOENIX TN:
Westfaliche Wilhelms-Universitat Munster
Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
Universidad de Deusto
Universidad de Granada
Universidad de Cantabria
University College, Cork
Universita degli Studi di Parma
Escola Superior de Educacao de Castelo Branco
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Lancaster University
Russian Postgraduate Medical Academy
Robert Bosch Foundation
Wellcome Trust
Instituto Superior de Ciencias do Trabalho e Empresa
Universidad de Baleares
The Milbank Memorial Fund
The Portuguese Ordem dos Medicos (OM)
We would like to inform you that a draft calendar of activities for the each working group created under PHOENIX TN ("Texts, Pedagogical Materials and Educational Political Recommendations for Ministries and Departments of Education of all EU members", "Establishing Quality Markers for Health Assistance" and "Health and Socio-Political Recommendations for the European Union Governments") is already available at the website, under forums section . This calendar has been drawn by each coordinator with the suggestions and agreements resulted from the meetings with the working group members that took place in Evora last September, during our conference on European Health and Social Welfare Policies. This year, every working group will have a separate budget for the development of their own programme. So we encourage those new participants (and those others who did not do it yet) to sign on one of the groups by sending a message to webmaster@phoenixtn.net informing on their choice. Please do it before December 10, if possible. By then, coordinators wil consider their groups defined and start moving!
Although still starting PHOENIX TN second year of life, we keep an eye on the future and do not forget that by 1 March 2003, the draft proposal of PHOENIX TN for 2003-2004 will have to be submitted. We would need new university members, new partners, by then. If you have colleagues that would be interested in collaborating with us and would benefit from participation, please let us/them know, encourage them to join, most especially in those countries in which we have none or scarce participation (list of present partners available at http://phoenixtn.org).
We would also like to announce you that PHOENIX TN is willing to create new projects and develop new activities. The first proposal of another European event -an Erasmus Intensive Programme on Health and Social Change- has been submitted last October, under the coordination of Linköping University and the participation of eight different PHOENIX TN partner institutions. This intensive course has its origin in the Master's Programme with the similar name is been developed at Linköping University. We hope this is only the beginning of a long history of university cooperation and collaboration in our broad field of interest.
A catalogue of courses related to our field could be compiled and offered to the whole community using PHOENIX TN as a portal. This work will be accomplished by the Text, Pedagogical Materials... working group. Although the proposed forms will be published at the PHOENIX TN websites, a simple e-mail addressed to webmaster will be enough at this moment to include the offer in the draft table that you can find at http://phoenixtn.net
Best wishes,
Laurinda Abreu
Coordinator
PHOENIXTN, European Thematic Network on Health and Social Welfare Policy
http://phoenixtn.org
laurinda.abreu@phoenixtn.net
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