On 23 April 2026, All.Can International Executive Director Madalina Iamandei moderated a policy dialogue at the European Parliament on closing the cancer prevention gap in Eastern Europe, hosted by EP Vice-President Victor Negrescu.
The event, part of the 4P-CAN project, brought together policymakers, public health experts, researchers and civil society representatives to address a question that sits at the heart of the prevention challenge across Europe: how do we turn strong policies into real-world impact? Cancer prevention frameworks exist. What lags behind is implementation, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe, where persistent East-West and rural-urban inequalities continue to determine who benefits from prevention measures and who does not.
4P-CAN has been working to understand those gaps from the inside. Its Living Lab in Lerești, a small village in Argeș County, Romania, brings researchers alongside citizens, schools, community organisations, health professionals and local authorities to co-develop prevention actions grounded in real conditions. Local and regional authorities from Argeș County participated in the Brussels event alongside EU and national policymakers, ensuring the discussion was anchored in delivery realities rather than abstraction.
The session was accompanied by the “Art of Networks” exhibition, which translated Living Lab findings into visual form, illustrating how social networks and community dynamics shape prevention behaviours in practice.
The dialogue’s findings will feed into 4P-CAN’s ongoing work and into the consortium’s final policy conference in Brussels in 2027.
About 4P-CAN
4P-CAN is co-funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme. It brings together nineteen partners from Romania, Bulgaria, the Republic of Moldova, North Macedonia, Montenegro and Ukraine. All.Can International is a consortium partner. Learn more at 4p-can.eu.