On November 30th 2023, the partners of the CONCERTO project "CrossbOrder Network for ChildrEn RheumaTolOgy", financed by call 1/2022 of the INTERREG VI A Italy-Slovenia Programme 2021-2027, met at the I.R.C.C.S. Burlo Garofolo in Trieste to start the project activities.
The objective of CONCERTO is to capitalise the results of the CATTEDRA project of the previous Interreg Italy-Slovenia 2014-2020 programming period, i.e. to improve, transfer and disseminate a cross-border database on rare immune-mediated diseases of children in the Programme Area and to improve the feasibility study of a new innovative DNA diagnostic test based on Next Generation Sequencing.
During the meeting, the starting points of the project were discussed, the next activities were defined, and a more detailed schedule and internal organisation of the partnership was established, defining the key roles regarding the realisation of deliverables and outputs.