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Submissions were accepted until May 14, 2025
To help identify valuable care initiatives from local practitioners, organisations and individuals, anyone committed to improving care for people living with epilepsy and intellectual disabilities were invited to share their activity​ in one of two categories:
ROLE MODELS
CHANGE-MAKERS
individuals who defy expectations
and with empathy and determination
bring health and hope to this
underserved population. This can
be a family member, a primary carer,
a physician or any other person
involved in the continuum of care.
systemic and scalable change efforts
designed to improve quality of life
for this group of patients. Activities
can range from raising awareness to
improving diagnosis, ensuring equal
access to healthcare, managing the
disease of improving conditions for
patients, and can come from public
or private sector.
A panel representing Nordic epilepsy patient associations and clinical expertise is assessing all submissions using four criteria:
Relevance to the cause
Commitment and passion
Demonstrated positive change
Scalability
Exclusion criteria: Area of focus (issues outside the space of epilepsy and intellectual disability), conflict of commercial interest, location (outside the Nordic region)
The submissions chosen by the panel will be selected to speak at:
EIR NORDIC DAY, OCTOBER 17
SOLLENTUNA, STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
Closed for ​submissions
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