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Editorial<br />
Innovation and collaboration:<br />
two of the leading forces that drive EWMA<br />
Fourteen years ago, EWMA held a conference in<br />
Stockholm, at which the partnership structure<br />
of the EWMA Cooperating Organisations was<br />
announced.<br />
One of the creative minds behind this innovation<br />
was Christina Lindholm, who for many years has been<br />
a driving force in the EWMA Council and the EWMA<br />
Education Committee. In <strong>2014</strong>, we celebrate Christina<br />
and her many contributions to EWMA at the EWMA-<br />
GNEAUPP <strong>2014</strong> conference by inviting her into the<br />
group of esteemed EWMA Honorary Speakers.<br />
The EWMA Cooperating Organisations partnership has<br />
grown tremendously since its inception in 2000, and today,<br />
it includes 49 wound care associations, representing<br />
35 European countries. Representatives from many<br />
of these associations will meet during the <strong>2014</strong> EWMA<br />
conference to elect members for the EWMA Council, discuss<br />
aspects of wound care across Europe, and learn from<br />
each other’s experiences during the EWMA Cooperating<br />
Organisations Board Meeting and the Cooperating Organisations<br />
Workshop.<br />
In 2008, the EWMA Council formalised the first collaborations<br />
with associations outside of Europe through<br />
the establishment of International Partner Agreements<br />
with the Association for the Advancement of Wound<br />
Care (AAWC) of the U.S.A., initially, and subsequently<br />
with the Australian Wound Management Association<br />
(AWMA).<br />
JOINING FORCES THROUGH JOINT<br />
INTERNATIONAL ACTIVITIES<br />
The number of International Partners has increased<br />
to 11, and the initial collaborations with AAWC and<br />
AWMA have led to publication of the “Managing<br />
Wounds as a Team” document, which is presented on<br />
page 99. We are proud to announce that, together, these<br />
three major international associations have designed and<br />
published a joint guidance document on wound care.<br />
Furthermore, as a result of these rewarding collaborations,<br />
a recent invitation has been extended by the<br />
AAWC Board for EWMA to appoint a member for<br />
the AAWC Board for <strong>2014</strong>-2015, a position that will<br />
be held by the EWMA Immediate Past President Jan<br />
Apelqvist.<br />
INNOVATION, KNOW-HOW,<br />
AND TECHNOLOGY IN WOUND CARE<br />
Innovation, Know-how, and Technology in Wound Care is<br />
theme for the EWMA-GNEAUPP <strong>2014</strong> Madrid conference<br />
theme. Taking place 14-16 May, the conference<br />
will explore these topics as well as other ongo-ing<br />
EWMA activities and projects.<br />
The EWMA Home Care Wound Care guidance<br />
document will also be launched at the conference. This<br />
document has been developed in collaboration with<br />
HomeCare Europe (www.homecareeurope.org), a new<br />
European partner of EWMA. For more details about<br />
this document, see page 96.<br />
The eHealth symposium, which was a newcomer at the<br />
EWMA 2013 conference, will run again this year. It<br />
is being organised in collaboration with the European<br />
Health Telematics Association (EHTEL, www.ehtel.<br />
org). EHTEL plays a pivotal role as the focal point of<br />
eHealth in Europe, and we look forward to EHTEL’s<br />
contribution in developing the EWMA eHealth symposium<br />
this year and for the EWMA 2015 London<br />
conference, at which an extension of the collaboration<br />
is already being planned.<br />
We look forward to seeing many of you in Madrid and<br />
wish you an enjoyable Spring <strong>2014</strong>.<br />
Yours sincerely,<br />
Sue Bale, Editor of the EWMA <strong>Journal</strong><br />
Salla Seppänen, EWMA President<br />
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EWMA <strong>Journal</strong> <strong>2014</strong> vol 14 no 1