Theme: "Strengthening of Patient’s voice in the Improvement of Mental Health Care"

Amazonia Lisboa Hotel Lisbon October 21– 24, 2010	Delegates	57
	Organisations	29
	Countries	22

 Read here the report written by William Ashdown
Photo report

This Convention has been made possible by the following companies:

· GlaxoSmithKline plc
· Pfizer Incorporated
· H. Lundbeck A/S
· Eli Lilly and Company

Grant providers had no control over the content of the convention .

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Thursday, 21st October

14.00 – 17.00: Board Meeting

16.30 – 18.00 Registration for Conference by the Delegates

18.30 Opening Ceremony

19.00 Award Giving Ceremony - Jurgen Scheftlein

Dinner

Friday, 22nd October

09.00 - 09.10 Welcome by the President, Dolores Gauci

09.10 -09.30 Opening Speech by the Portuguese Minister of Health

Plenary Session 1 - Strengthening Your Organisation

10.00 – 10.30 Developing Clear Objectives for the Organisation – Georgiana Elena Pascu

10.30 – 11.00 Coffee Break

11.00 – 11.30 Making the Vision a Reality – Implementing your Plans – Dolores Gauci

11.30 – 12.00 Fundraising – Koos van der Span

12.00 – 12.30 Examples of Good Practice Mrs Sotiria Drivalou

12.30 – 13.00 General Discussion & Questions from the Floor

During this discussion Petros Andronikos presented video about activity of SOPSI

13.00 – 14.30 Lunch

Plenary Session 2 – Becoming Advocates: Representing the Needs of your Patients: Facing Challenges (Moderator Yoram Cohen)

14.30 - 16.00 2 Workshops: “How can we increase the strength of our organization?” (Workshop facilitators: Raluca Nica and Hilkka Karkkainen)

16.00- 16.30 Reporting from workshops

Dinner outside

Saturday 23rd October

Plenary Session 3 - Contributing/Influencing Health Care Policies

09.00 – 09.30 Influencing Governments and Policy Makers – Dr. John Bowis

09.30 – 10.20 Effective advocacy: ten golden rules – Christine Marking

10.20 – 10.30 Building an Interest Group on Mental Health in the European Parliament –  Christine Marking

 

10.30 – 11.00 Coffee Break

Plenary Session 4 – Building Strategic Alliances

11.00 – 11.30 With Other Patient Groups – Bosmat Admon

11.30 – 12.00 With Patients’ and Professionals’ Organisation – Prof Vladimir Rotstein

12.00 – 13.00 With Private Companies – Linda Weisert and Katharina Ossenberg

13.00 - 14.30 Lunch

Session 5: Becoming Advocates: Representing the Needs of your Patients: Finding Solutions (Moderator Yoram Cohen)

14.30 – 15.30 2 Workshops: “How can we increase the strength of our organization?” SOLUTIONS - (Workshop Facilitators: Raluca Nica and Hilkka Karkkainen)

15.30- 16.00 Reporting from workshops

16.00 Closing of Convention

16.15 – 17.30 General Assembly and Voting for the Election of the New Board

Dinner

Sunday 24th October

Departures