CAREWAY marked its official launch on November 12th 2025, with a successful Transnational Project Meeting and Kick-off event held in Helsinki. The project, which aims to enhance cancer literacy and reduce inequalities in care across five European countries, is now fully underway.
The meeting brought together the partners from Finland, Portugal, Poland, Romania, and the Netherlands, and the energy and collaboration among them set a positive tone for this two-year initiative.
The meeting was hosted by the Finnish partners, Ira Haavisto and Riikka-Leena Leskelä, from the Nordic Healthcare Group, who received high praise for the organisation.
The overarching goal of CAREWAY is to develop learning, accessible, and easy-to-understand tools to improve cancer literacy and reduce disparities in prevention, diagnosis, and care across Europe.
This meeting also allowed to better align the aims and goals of the initial phase: desk research on existing cancer literacy activities, programs, and materials, followed by a gap analysis. This crucial step will lay the foundational data for the co-creation of the CAREWAY Toolkit.
The consortium is anticipating two years of hard work, resulting in tangible and useful outcomes that will make a lasting difference in European cancer care.
