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iPAAC partner FISABIO (Fundació per al Foment de la Investigació Sanitaria I Biomèdica de la Comunitat Valenciana) launched in 2019 a Contest of Best Practices tackling social inequalities in cancer prevention, including both health promotion and cancer screening programmes.

Tackling cancer is one of the von der Leyen Commission’s main priorities in the area of health, since data shows that the number of cancer cases in the EU will double by 2035.

The iPAAC WP5 conference, side event of Finland’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union, was held on 5 December 2019 in Helsinki.

The Hungarian Stakeholder Forum will be held at the National Institute of Oncology in Budapest on 11 December 2019.

The 3^rd iPAAC Governmental Board meeting took place on 9 and 10 October 2019 in Barcelona.

The second iPAAC Stakeholder Forum was held on Tuesday, 10 December 2019 in Brussels, a conference room of the FPS Employment, Labour and Social Dialogue.

The Lithuanian iPAAC dissemination meeting was held on 2 October 2019 at the Vilnius University Hospital Santaros Clinic.

The Cancer Information group at the European Commission's Joint Research Centre in Ispra (Italy) is offering a trainee work experience for an activity in cancer epidemiology and registration.

The third WP5 conference on cancer prevention and health promotion will be held in Lyon, France, on 29 April 2020 and organized by IARC and ECL.

The second German Local Stakeholder Forum (LSF) of the Joint Action “Innovative Partnership for Action Against Cancer” (iPAAC) was held in Berlin on 20 February 2019, within the framework of the 34^th German Cancer Congress.