Lerești Living Lab

Event

"Mapping Cancer Risk" Workshop at the 2nd European Cancer Mission Fair — Nicosia
April 28, 2026

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INOMED presented a workshop titled "Mapping Cancer Risk: Network Analysis and Art-Based Community Engagement in Rural Living Labs" at the European Cancer Mission Fair, exploring network approaches to prevention and community-engaged visualisations.

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Closing the Loop at the Embassy of Romania to Belgium in Bruxelles
April 23, 2026

Closing the Loop event in Bruxelles

The policy dialogue continued at the Embassy of Romania to Belgium, where partners reflected on the Brussels discussions and the next steps for equitable cancer prevention in Eastern Europe.

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Closing the Loop: Linking Policy and Implementation in Bruxelles at the European Parliament
April 23, 2026

Closing the Loop event at the European Parliament

Held at the European Parliament in Bruxelles, this event focused on how to connect policy priorities with practical implementation to scale equitable cancer prevention across Eastern Europe.

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Art of Network exhibition at the 4P-CAN Consortium Meeting in Lyon
March 23-24, 2026

Art of Network exhibition in Lyon

The 4P-CAN consortium meeting in Lyon was followed by the Art of Network exhibition, where stories from people living in Lerești were represented through artworks created from collected data. These pieces illustrate how citizen engagement, community collaboration, and data sharing can transform approaches to primary cancer prevention.

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Round table at the ECSA 2026 Citizen Science Conference in Oulu (Finland)
March 3–6, 2026

ECSA 2026 Conference in Oulu, Finland

Proud to have been part of the 6th European Citizen Science Association (ECSA) Conference 2026 in Oulu, Finland, dedicated to "Citizen Science: Bridging Centre and Periphery." We organized a roundtable on how citizen science can help reconfigure health systems, with a focus on Eastern Europe and underserved communities.

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Article

Why cancer prevention is not just about personal choices
March 9, 2026

Cancer prevention research

Our team has recently published a new study in The Lancet Regional Health – Europe exploring why cancer prevention cannot rely solely on personal willpower — and what structural, social, and environmental factors shape health behaviour across Europe.

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Announcement

Argeș – Champion County in Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease Prevention
January 29, 2026

Argeș Prevention Conference

The Argeș County Council hosted an event organized by the Center for Innovation in Medicine (InoMed) – "Argeș – Champion County in Cancer and Cardiovascular Disease Prevention."

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Article

The social clustering of health in rural areas
January 5, 2025

Social clustering of health research

When we think about health, we often picture individual choices: Should I get vaccinated? Should I quit smoking? Should I eat better? This perspective reflects an individualization of health responsibility, whereby health outcomes are attributed solely to personal choice, obscuring the role of social, economic, and relational determinants. But what if these health-related decisions are rarely individual at all?

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Announcement

ENoLL Accreditation
December 15, 2025

We are happy to announce that our Lerești Living Lab has been officially accepted into ENoLL (the European Network of Living Labs), one of the most important international networks promoting open innovation and real-life experimentation.

European Network of Living Labs
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