Policy Work
Youth Cancer Europe is committed to speak with a single representative voice of young people with cancer and together with other relevant stakeholders, through strategic partnerships in Europe, engage with EU policy-makers to influence the European health and research policies
Together we can help shape European policy, collaborate in and promote research, fight for better access to care, for better treatments, better conditions and help fix disparities that exist across Europe for young people fighting cancer. Youth with cancer must be present from the beginning when setting any kind of agenda for research and policymaking, to ensure that priorities are in line with patients’ priorities. We can provide decision makers first-hand with the patient perspective.
YCE's Nicola Unterecker speaks at the European Commission's World Mental Health Day Conference
July 6, 2024 •
On October 10, Youth Cancer Europe ’s patient advocate Nicola Unterecker , took the stage at the European Commission's World Mental Health Day Conference , hosted...
EU Institutional Engagement Mental Health
July 19, 2024 •
YCE patient advocate Ana-Maria Totovina represented the voice of Romanian patients and youth cancer survivors at a conference held at the Romanian Parliament on the National Day of Cancer Surv...
Youth Cancer Network
The biggest meeting of the European Network of Youth Cancer Survivors kicks off in Romania!
Aug. 7, 2024 •
Our excitement levels are going through the roof as we prepare for the grand finale of our EU-CAYAS-NET project: the European Network of Youth Cancer Survivors Closing Event! Young peo...
Youth Cancer Network
Oct. 23, 2024 •
This August, the largest meeting of the European Network of Youth Cancer Survivors , organised by Youth Cancer Europe in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, brought together 180 participants in att...
Youth Cancer Network
Dec. 11, 2024 •
Eliminating the cancers caused by HPV through vaccination PROTECT-EUROPE is a project co-funded by the European Union under the EU4Health Programme 2021-2027 , promoting gender-...
EU Institutional Engagement
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in Cancer Care
Dec. 30, 2024 •
a Youth Cancer Europe Advocacy Project Recognising that social determinants (such as age, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, or for example cultu...
Equity Diversity Inclusion
Youth Cancer Europe meets with European Health Commissioner on World Cancer Day
Feb. 18, 2025 •
In one of his first public engagements as the European Commissioner for Health and Animal Welfare, Oliver Várhelyi held a Youth Policy Dialogue with members of Youth Cancer Europe on the occasion o...
EU Institutional Engagement
YCE speaks at the Swedish Presidency EU event for World Cancer Day
Feb. 5, 2023 •
Ana Amăriuței, patient advocate at Youth Cancer Europe and Biomedical Science PhD student at University of Sheffield, originally from Romania, shared her own story of childhood cancer in a high-lev...
EU Institutional Engagement Youth Cancer Network
YCE in a Policy Dialogue on mental health with EU Health Commissioner
March 7, 2023 •
Earlier this month YCE patient advocates Nicola Unterecker and Mariana Coutinho have been invited to take part in a youth policy dialogue towards a comprehensive approach to mental health with Comm...
EU Institutional Engagement Mental Health
YCE conducts 5 hospital Peer Visits in Europe
Nov. 18, 2023 •
2023 Summer was a busy one for our team. Leading the work on Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer (AYA) Care in the EU-cofunded European Network of Youth Cancer Survivors project " EU-CAYAS-NET "...
Youth Cancer Network