We are happy to announce that the EURAMED rocc-n-roll onsortium has successfully concluded the first project period. The project reached a significant milestone with the end of its first period as partners submitted all deliverables and fully achieved the objectives for the first 18 months of EURAMED rocc-n-roll. Stay tuned for an update on our first results.

During the European Radiation Protection Week (ERPW) 2021, two EURAMED rocc-n-roll workshops will be held on November 22 and 23, 2021 in Vienna/AT and online. One of the workshops will be related to WP6 and one to WP3. The preliminary programme is available here.

Find more information on registration for the workshops and the ERPW here.

On September 30 and October 1, 2021 the EURAMED rocc-n-roll consortium met online for their annual consortium meeting. The work progress, first results and next steps in each Work Package were presented and discussed. The draft structure of the EURAMED rocc-n-roll SRA was discussed and feedback gathered from the partners and members of the Advisory Board.

A EURAMED rocc-n-roll workshop on “Ethics, artificial intelligence and implications for medical applications of ionizing radiation“will be held during RICOMET 2021.

The workshop will provide an update on several new initiatives for ethics in medical applications of radiation that are underway in the international community (including imaging and radiotherapy). Specifically, a new ICRP Report is well advanced and focuses on ethics for radiation in medical diagnosis and treatment (ICRP TG 109). WHO has initiated work suggesting that ethics become a fourth pillar (with regulation; professional practices, and safety culture) for Radiation Protection in Medicine. A policy brief is being created which will inform further work. In addition, sessions on ethics in medical RP were included in the recent IRPA International Congress and the 2021 European Congress of Radiology.

Within the EURAMED rocc-n-roll project, relevant ethics considerations of the agenda for digitalisation of medical applications of ionising radiation and related radiation protection are being addressed through SHARE in the context of a wide range of opportunities, caveats, and challenges, including those coming with the use of artificial intelligence and big data. Ethics responses are often framed very broadly by scientists, engineers, equipment developers, manufacturers, medical practitioners et al. A broader perspective must also include elements from law, good practice, guidelines, standards, and unstated values sets, all of which and help underpin safety and efficacy.
Preliminary SHARE perspectives on this work in progress will be presented at the workshop and participants will be encouraged to work in small groups to generate new ideas, challenges and comments to help shape the SHARE response to the digitalisation imperative.

The workshop will held online on September 10, 10:00-12:00 CEST.

Participation is free of charge. To register for the workshop, please click here.

EURAMED rocc-n-roll will be introduced to the radiology community at the European Congress of Radiology 2021, which is held online on March 3-7, 2021. As part of the EuroSafe Imaging Poster Exhibition, a poster dedicated to the project is presented. The project will also be presented at the EIBIR-EURAMED joint session on European radiation protection research.

Education and Training (E&T) in medical application of ionizing radiation and related radiation protection is a major element of the EURAMED rocc-n-roll project. In a dedicated work package, the project aims to develop a methodological framework and guidance document on how to organise, implement and disseminate E&T in medical RP amongst health professionals and how to include E&T in all research projects to equip researchers with a sound knowledge base of the science required for RP research, to build capacity in RP research and ensure sustainability of the field, including the link with industry regarding new technological developments, from a RP perspective.

To identify the needs/problems/challenges for each health profession in relation to RP E&T and to assess the status quo of national implementation of the E&T requirements laid down in the European Council Directive 2013/59/Euratom – Basic Safety Standards (BSS), a survey has been developed. It is addressed to relevant national stakeholders, including national scientific and professional societies, regulators, and to individuals with an interest in medical imaging (radiology, nuclear medicine, hybrid imaging) and radiotherapy from the 27 EU countries, plus Iceland, Norway, Switzerland and the UK.

Please click here to access the survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc_PiAkhCUzT0DQkZ5sohwywzchyuFoZ_RW32ColGdsJkIMHw/viewform

The survey contains 40 questions mostly in multiple choice format and should take less than 15 minutes to complete. The deadline for survey completion is 26/03/2021.