Many health care professionals remain at work for the service of patient mobility in Europe. Vacation is available for patient with hemodialysis far from usual centers. For people travelling abroad emergency in the Private Hospital teams are accessible during summer. Or medical teams remain present for people with chronic diseases at home.

A so hot spring may be followed by an equivalent summer. We hope that previous European engagement respecting COP21 could limit global warming and excessive weather changes. At this moment, our attention is dedicated to health service but we hope for everyone a stop in professional activities for rest and vacation. We wish you a very pleasant summer, free time and a good health.

„To be eligible to EU grant programmes requires a high scientific level, good partnerships also with smaller and medium companies, NGOs, patients organisations, partners with different background and characteristics, innovative research ideas with strong impact on society“, explains Dr Federica Prete, EU Grants Manager at San Raffaele. She quotes following points as prerequisites for a successful grant application, that only a professional support service can provide : „Inform researchers about funding opportunities, set up a support service that helps researchers and clinicians, define a strategy and identify priorities, network and exchange within and with other hospitals and organisations at national and international levels and share resources.“ Other important factors, often put aside by scientists also play a key role for eligibility. „We also provide updated information about new debates, we support lobbying work of scientists. We promote as well different types of programmes, not only EU or national/regional programmes. For an hospital it is important to have different sources of funding. We organise special courses on non scientific aspects like dissemination, communication, gender issues, etc.„

Results
The San Raffaele Hospital already became funding for 26 Horizon 2020 projects so far.

Horizon 2020 is the most important research funding programme in Europe, which also funds clinical trials, alongside with the prestigious ERC grant, that supports excellent scientists and the Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship, which support mobility of researchers.

About 15 % of proposals submitted so far have been accepted, which is an average success rate, for an amount reaching 7 millions Euro. More than 100 collaborating have participated to San Raffaele Horizon 2020 projects.

Part of excellence: diabetes, cardio vascular and neuroscience, urology, genetics, gene therapy,immunology, etc.

About San Raffaele Hospital:
Belonging to the San Donato Group, Italy's largest private hospital chain with 18 hospitals in Northern Italy and 3 high specialty research hospitals, the San Raffaele university hospital was the first private hospital established in Italy in 1971, granted in 1972 by the Italian Ministry of Health with the status of “Research Hospital”.

The products used are seasonal and come from neighbouring areas to preserve their taste and freshness. Each month, chefs from the prestigious association Jeunes Restaurateurs d’Europe, the biggest association of chefs with Michelin Stars in all Europe, create new menus. At EAT Restaurant you can eat everything from fish to meat, rice to pasta, always accompanied by fresh vegetables and seasoned with extra virgin olive oil. Customers can also check the caloric intake of their meal with a pad placed on each table.

Following the success of this first EAT restaurant, le hospital opened its first EAT bar, where cold dishes and sandwiches made according to the same rules are served.

The EAT restaurant and bar have convinced even the most demanding palates. Even young people and San Raffaele university students favour the EAT bar for their break sessions.

Background
The San Donato Foundation Hospital Group is supporting a food education programme since 2009 under the name EAT Educational. Primarily targeted to school food, the programme aims to educate young people on proper nutrition, trying to prevent pathologies, particularly cardiovascular diseases, often resulting from modern eating culture. In 2015, the program became EAT Sustainable Food Education whose philosophy is based on the elimination of "junk food" in all familiar, both professional and convivial environments. The first snack distributors named "Feed Your Health" was placed inside San Donato hospitals, then successfully proposed to schools, companies, public offices,etc.

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