EMCDDA news

This week, the European Commission launched ‘Supporting initiatives in the field of drugs policy’, a new call for proposals for grant applications to support transnational projects in 27.09.2019 

The EMCDDA is working with its expert network on drug-related infectious diseases (DRID) on an ‘elimination barometer’ for viral hepatitis to help countries assess progress towards eliminating hepatitis C and B among people who inject drugs (PWID). 27.09.2019 

European Prevention Curriculum — handbook and training 24.09.2019  Advancing the professionalism of the drug prevention workforce in Europe is at the heart of a new European Prevention Curriculum (EUPC) handbook, launched today by the EU drugs agency (EMCDDA). The manual is designed to train professionals who are involved in shaping prevention decisions, opinions and policies in Europe in the science-based prevention of substance use (1).

EMCDDA Director Alexis Goosdeel is at the European Parliament today, where he will be presenting the agency’s activities to the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE). The EMCDDA will be joining other Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) agencies — CEPOL, EASO, eu-LISA, Eurojust, Europol and FRA — in introducing their work to the new LIBE MEPs. 04.09.2019