Every year, EULAR grants a set amount to its knowledge transfer programme. The programme is designed to support patient organisations that wish to further develop their skillset through applying lessons learned by other organisations in the EULAR network.

This knowledge transfer is mainly done through visiting an organisation in another country. The programme is open to EULAR member organisations of PARE, and to organisations with co-opted delegates in the Standing Committee of PARE.

The total amount available for this programme is EUR 15,000.00.

Organisations are asked to develop and submit project ideas that will contribute to the development of professional capabilities within the organisation itself.

The organisation is required to describe their ideas in detail in the application form. In order to share their findings, EULAR expects recipient organisations of a grant to provide a report after the stay, focusing on the results achieved.

To apply, send your completed application documents to the EULAR Secretariat by 10 November 2018 (23:59 CET) to alzbeta.goehmann@eular.org

For any questions regarding your project, or for help with filling in the application forms, please contact Alzbeta Göhmann at the EULAR Secretariat.

Link to the EULAR Knowledge Transfer website:  https://www.eular.org/pare_knowledge_transfer_progamme.cfm?cache=no

EULAR offers help to find a suitable partner organisation based on a short description of need, consultation on ideas and a webinar on how to apply for the Knowledge transfer programme on Monday, 15 October 2018 from 19:00 to 20:00 CET. You have to register for this webinar by 4 October 2018.

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We are very proud to share that LupusGPT has now been published in The Lancet Rheumatology, one of the world’s leading medical journals in rheumatology.

For us, this is not only about a publication. It is about what LupusGPT stands for.

LupusGPT is free. It is patient-led. And it was built to help people living with lupus find reliable, accessible information in almost any language.

It began with a simple but important question: what could become possible if patients, clinicians, and digital experts truly worked together from the start?

That question was first opened up in a fishbowl discussion at the European Lupus Meeting 2024 on how the lupus community could get the best, but not the worst, out of AI. From there, LupusGPT was shaped through the care, intelligence, and effort of many people: volunteers, patient testers, clinicians testing across languages, people who gave feedback, and people already helping us share it with patients in clinics, organisations, and communities.

This publication matters because it shows that patient-led innovation belongs in the scientific world too. It shows that when patient voice is not added at the end, but built in from the start, something real can grow.

A heartfelt thank you to all authors: Zoe Karakikla-Mitsakou, Alain Cornet, Jeanette Andersen, Sarah Dyball, Cristiana Sieiro Santos, Daniel Guimarães de Oliveira, and Laurent Arnaud. Special thanks also to Daniel Guimarães de Oliveira for the thought, care, and belief he brought to this work, and to Professor Laurent Arnaud for his outstanding support, steadiness, and guidance.

And above all, thank you to everyone in the Lupus Europe community who keeps showing us why this matters.

LupusGPT. Free. Multilingual. Patient-led. And now part of the scientific record.

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🌍 Through this global event, we can spread the word that children and young people get rheumatic diseases like lupus, too.

‼️ It is estimated that around 15-20% of #lupus patients are children, although it is rare that a child develops lupus before 5 years of age.

As with adult patients, the cause of lupus remains unknown, and there is a great choice of treatments to keep the disease under control.

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