Ekaterina Gómez
RIVER-EU’s closing events in Brussels
From 18 to 20 May 2026, the RIVER-EU consortium came together in Brussels for three intense and meaningful days to share five years of work, reflect on what was built, and look ahead to what comes next.
Operationalising vaccine equity: Lessons from five years of collaboration shared at the RIVER-EU final conference
The RIVER-EU final conference “Making Vaccine Equity Work: Community-led Solutions for a Healthier and More Resilient Europe” put on display the project’s field experience, implementation learning, a newly launched guideline and action framework, and closed with a pragmatic conversation about what happens next.
“Don’t pass them by when it comes to vaccination”: Closing the loop in Poland
In Poland, RIVER-EU has been concentrating on Ukrainian migrants and refugees, communities selected precisely because childhood vaccine uptake, specifically HPV vaccination, was remarkably low. RIVER-EU wanted to understand why and what lessons might be transferable to other settings. On May 9th, the University of Zielona Gora, the RIVER-EU partner and coordinator, presented the core findings … Read more
From community to community: RIVER-EU closes the loop in the Netherlands
In the Netherlands, RIVER-EU has been working with Turkish and Moroccan background communities whose HPV vaccine uptake falls consistently below the national average. This April, RIVER-EU partner and coordinator, University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), brought those findings back to the people who matter most: the professionals who shape the system and the women at its centre.
When it comes to vaccination, trust is everything: Closing the loop in the UK
This March, RIVER-EU colleagues brought the project's findings back to the community
that inspired them. During two events that reached very different audiences, they
shared the same core message: when it comes to vaccination, trust is everything.
“A goodbye to RIVER-EU, but not to our collaboration”: Closing the loop in Slovakia
On 18 February 2026, partners from Healthy Regions gathered with Roma health mediators, coordinators and managers to mark the project’s close, not with a formal conference, but with something that felt more fitting: a working celebration.
Join us at the RIVER-EU Final Conference in Brussels
After five years of successful collaboration, the RIVER-EU project will conclude with a final public event in Brussels, bringing together communities, practitioners, researchers, and policymakers to reflect on key outcomes and discuss pathways for advancing equitable vaccination strategies across Europe.
RIVER-EU General Assembly meeting 2025: Shaping our guiding principles for vaccine equity
In line with our tradition of holding the General Assembly meeting during the European Public Health Conference, on 11 November 2025, RIVER-EU partners met in Helsinki to reflect on progress, discuss the upcoming guideline (WP5), and agree on priorities for the final months of the project, which will end in June 2026.