📢 hashtag#INOMED at the 2nd European Cancer Mission Fair — from engagement to real impact

April 28, 2026 — Nicosia, Cyprus

On April 28, 2026, in Nicosia, the European Cancer Mission Fair brought together stakeholders from across Europe with a shared objective: turning collaboration into tangible impact for citizens.

Organised by the European Commission and the ECHoS | Establishing of Cancer Mission Hubs: Networks and Synergies project, the Fair is a key moment for advancing citizen engagement and implementation within the EU Cancer Mission.

For INOMED, this is both a continuation and a milestone:

  • It continues the dialogue from April 23 at the European Parliament ("Closing the Loop: Linking Policy and Implementation").
  • It reflects our role as lead of Work Package 3 within ECHoS, moving from stakeholder mapping to enabling real participation and impact.

Our contribution

"Mapping Cancer Risk: Network Analysis and Art-Based Community Engagement in Rural Living Labs" — key experience from our 4P-CAN Project.

Speaker:
Hancean Marian-Gabriel — Professor of Quantitative Sociology, Research Director, INOMED

Facilitators & curators:
Bianca-Elena Mihăilă and Bogdan-Adrian Vidrașcu — Researchers at INOMED

The workshop, built on the Lerești Living Lab (Romania), explored a key shift in prevention: from individual behaviour to networks of influence, trust, and community dynamics.

Participants engaged directly with social network analysis concepts — nodes, ties, and structures — gaining a new perspective on how cancer-related risk factors circulate within communities and how these insights can inform more targeted and effective prevention strategies.

Taking place in the context of the “Art of Networks” exhibition, the session also demonstrated how data can be translated into visual, community-relevant narratives — bridging research and lived experience.

Together, these contributions reflect a simple reality: prevention becomes effective only when it is understood, trusted, and embedded in real communities.

Read more & photos from the Fair

"Closing the Loop: Linking Policy and Implementation" @ European Parliament, Bruxelles, Belgium

April 23, 2026

Closing the Loop event at the European Parliament

On April 23, 2026, we took part in the high-level policy dialogue "Closing the Loop: Linking Policy and Implementation - Scaling Equitable Cancer Prevention in Eastern Europe", organised by the 4P-CAN Consortium and hosted at the European Parliament by Vice-President Victor Negrescu.

The meeting addressed a central challenge: Europe has strong cancer prevention strategies, but implementation remains uneven across regions and communities. The discussion focused on how to move from policy ambition to practical action that reaches underserved populations.

As a Horizon Europe project contributing to the EU Mission on Cancer, 4P-CAN combines implementation research, social sciences, and citizen engagement to generate practice-based evidence for equitable prevention.

At the center of this work is the Leresti Living Lab in Romania, where prevention is co-designed with citizens, health professionals, schools, community organisations, and local authorities. In Brussels, this local experience was presented not as a story, but as a replicable model for scaling prevention.

The dialogue brought together EU policymakers, regional leaders, researchers, and community voices, including contributions from the European Commission, the Joint Research Centre, OECD, EUREGHA, and All.Can International, to discuss equity, governance, and scale-up pathways for Eastern Europe.

The event concluded with the Art of Networks exhibition, which translated community insights and social science evidence into visual form, helping connect data, lived experience, and policy discussion.

For our team, this moment confirmed a simple point: cancer prevention becomes more effective when research, policy, and local communities are designed to work together.

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