EpiSouth Plus Project awarded with European Health Award 2014

The 2014 European Health Award (EHA) is awarded to EpiSouth Plus Project. The EHA, which was established in 2007, honours initiatives aiming to improve public health or healthcare in Europe and includes prize money of € 10,000. The award is presented annually at the European Health Forum Gastein, which takes place in October in Austria.


The EpiSouth Plus Project is aimed at increasing health security in the Mediterranean Area and Balkans by enhancing preparedness to threats, which can affect health security, and to bio-security risks at national/regional levels in the framework of International Health Regulation implementation. 

Initiatives being nominated for the European Health Award must comply with the following in order to be eligible for consideration:

The initiative must already be in its implementation phase, although it does not have to be completed at the time of application;
Applicants should be able to provide some initial results from their initiative;
The initiative must be implemented in at least two European countries;
The initiative should focus on public health or health care delivery and address an important threat to the health of the population in terms of prevention or health promotion, improving quality of care or access to care or through increased efficiency or cost-effectiveness;
The initiative should be innovative and/or demonstrate how it improves on similar projects;
The initiative should be sustainable and have the potential to be transferable to other countries.