As part of the EU-funded CO-CAPTAIN project, the Community of Madrid is leading one of the four national pilots aimed at improving access to cancer prevention for people experiencing severe and long-term mental ill-health. The Spanish pilot is implemented through the region’s Social Care Network for People with Severe and Long-Term Mental Illness, coordinated by…
The Austrian pilot of the CO-CAPTAIN project, coordinated by the Medical University of Vienna, continues to make steady progress toward its goal: bringing primary cancer prevention closer to people experiencing mental ill-health through a person-centred navigation model. One of Europe’s oldest and most prestigious medical training and research institutions, the Medical University of Vienna leads…
On 29 September 2025, CO-CAPTAIN took part in the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Prevention & Early Detection Cluster, held at the Catalan Public Health Secretariat in Barcelona and organised by the PIECES Project. The event brought together all six projects in the cluster — CO-CAPTAIN, PIECES, PREVENT, 4P-CAN, Cancer Prevention at Work (CPW) and…
This September 2025, the European project CO-CAPTAIN has entered a key new phase with the launch of Work Package 5 (WP5), led by the International Foundation for Integrated Care (IFIC). This work package — which will run until the end of the project in May 2026 — has an ambitious yet urgent objective: to create…
Throughout recent months, the CO-CAPTAIN project has continued to make steady progress in its pilot sites across Austria, Greece, Poland, and Spain, maintaining a strong commitment to improving access to cancer prevention through a person-centred approach — especially for individuals living with mental ill-health. As of August 2025, more than 1,200 people have been contacted…
The implementation of the patient-centred model of the European CO-CAPTAIN project is progressing strongly in its four pilot countries — Austria, Greece, Poland and Spain — with encouraging results in terms of outreach, participation and initial follow-up phases. To date, over 1,200 direct contacts have been made with individuals who could benefit from better guidance…
In the occasion of the European Mental Health Week 2025 promoted by Mental Health Europe, the CO-CAPTAIN projects joins the call to look at mental health through the lenses of the psychosocial approach. The psychosocial approach to mental health recognises that, in addition to a variety of life events and transition moments across the life…
In the framework of the CANCERLESS and CO-CAPTAIN projects, technology plays a crucial role in the collection and analysis of data to improve healthcare. Developed by the Universitat Politècnica de València, CIDMA (CANCERLESS Intervention Data Management Application) is a platform created to centralise, digitise and optimise the management of pilot data, facilitating the work of…
On 4 February, World Cancer Day, Igor Grabovac, Public Health Specialist at the Medical University of Vienna and coordinator of the CO-CAPTAIN project, participated in the first HaDEA Project Showcase, an event organised by the European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA) under the theme ‘Fostering synergies to beat cancer: The impact of EU-funded projects’.…
On 4 February we celebrate World Cancer Day, a global day to reflect, act and give a voice to millions of people affected by cancer. This year, the theme ‘United by Unique’ invites us to put people at the centre and their stories at the heart of the conversation. Cancer is not just a medical…