This came together at the Careum Congress in 2010 which gave birth to the European network on Patient Empowerment (ENOPE). The ENOPE congresses have helped shape the European Commissions future strategy on Patient Empowerment.
ENOPE members, largely coordinated by the European Health Futures Forum, went on to collaborate on a number of European projects including:
1st European Congress on Patient Empowerment 2012 A two-day conference on the contribution of patient and citizen empowerment to the future of health and social care in Europe.
Presentations from the ENOPE conferences can be found at: www.careum.ch/careum-congress
The increasing need to share expertise in approaches that supported empowerment across Europe led to EHFF and ENOPE successfully approaching the Robert Bosch foundation for funding.
In 2018 The Centre for Empowering patients and communities – CemPaC- was launched, its programme board contains many of the original ENOPE founders and takes forward the key objectives of ENOPE.