Projects and Partnerships

EFA has always been involved with numerous European wide projects. This has helped cement ties with other stakeholders.
The projects and partnerships in which EFA has become involved all have a common aim: They seek to empower the patients and at the same time promote awareness of diseases, improve their management and treatment.
EuroPrevall - Prevalence, Cost and Basis of Food Allergy Across Europe
GA²LEN - Global Allergy and Asthma European Network
Informall - Communicating About Food Allergies
Learn to Live with Asthma - Patient Support Project
THADE - Towards Healthy Air  in Dwellings in Europe

EuroPrevall aims to deliver the information and tools necessary for policy makers, regulators and the food industry to effectively manage food allergies across Europe, and hence deliver an improved quality of life to food allergic consumers.
Objectives - EuroPrevall website
Factsheets: Sexy research on food allergy, Food allergy diagnosis today and in the future and The impact of food allergy on quality of life
EuroPrevall project update: August 2007.

The main objective of the GA²LEN is to establish an internationally competitive network of European centres of excellence on allergy and asthma in order to strengthen and tackle the fragmentation European research, to spread excellence and knowledge, to integrate European research centres in a durable way, to address allergy and asthma in their totality and, at long term, to decrease the burden of allergy and asthma in all regions of Europe.
GA²LEN leaflet - Objectives - Role of EFA in GA²LEN Presentation - GA²LEN website - GA²LEN Campaign and resources Does Rhinitis Lead to Asthma?

Informall was a European Union commissioned action project to promote the provision of visible, credible food allergy information sources to a wide variety of stakeholders. These stakeholders include general consumers, the agro-food industry (including primary producers, manufacturers and retailers), allergic consumers, health professionals and regulators.
Objectives - Scope and Role of EFA Presentation - Informall website
InformAll tools: Database on allergenic foods - Food allergens information portal (FAIP)

The Learn to live with Asthma Patient Support Project was initiated to answer questions such as: Do you understand your Doctor? Do you have enough support? Travelling or Sports with Asthma? How to come to terms with Pregnancy and Asthma?
The project, which is based around eight short movies also explores how experienced, well-controlled asthmatics can provide valuable support to help newly-diagnosed asthmatics cope with asthma in daily life. MORE

This EFA project is support by an unrestricted educational grant from ALTANA.

Following in the wake of the very successful ‘Indoor Air Pollution in Schools’ (2000) study, in 2002 EFA was awarded a grant by the European Commission (DG SANCO) for a project entitled ‘Towards Healthy Air in Dwellings in Europe – THADE’.

The aim was to compile an overview of evidence-based data about exposure to indoor air pollution and its health effects, particularly as regards allergies, asthma and other respiratory diseases such as COPD; review cost-effective measures and technology to improve indoor air quality; review legislation and guidelines on indoor air pollution; and recommend an integrated strategy that defines appropriate indoor air quality policies for implementation in Europe.
Thade report [download - buy a copy] - Handout - Overview Presentation - Full reports of THADE experts