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6-9 October 2025: SERENA joins the ISPCAN congress

  • Writer: Olivier Degrand
    Olivier Degrand
  • Jun 2
  • 2 min read

Updated: Oct 1

SERENA joins the ISPCAN 2025 congress, in Vilnius, Lithuania 6 - 9 October 2025.


We will be able to share first research results on the development and improvement of health and social care for child victims of maltreatment.


During the ISPCAN, SERENA partners will actively contribute through different formats:


  • Institute of Child Health, Athens (Sakis Ntinapogias) will present a poster introducing the SERENA project (coordinated by Catherine Quantin) and research to date. Authors: Catherine Quantin; Yulia Shenderovich; Ulugbek Nurmatov; Sinead Brophy; Peter Fallessen; Donna O'Leary; Andreas Jud; Leona Hakkaart-van Roijen; Neha Batura; Sakis Ntinapogias; George Nikolaidis (SERENA WP leaders).


  • Cardiff University (Ulugbek Nurmatov) and Aarhus Universitet (Troels Græsholt-Knudsen) will give an oral presentation entitled “Comparative study of barriers and enablers for delivering and accessing health and social care services for children who experienced maltreatment in Denmark, France, and Wales”. Authors: Yulia Shenderovich, Ulugbek Nurmatov, Troels Græsholt-Knudsen, and other SERENA WP2&5 members.


  • Swansea University (Laura Elizabeth Cowley) will give an oral presentation entitled “Hospitalisations for physical abuse in infants and children less than 5 years, 2013–2021: a multinational cohort study using administrative data from five European countries”. Authors: Catherine Quantin, Jonathan Cottenet, Colleen Chambers, Natasha Kennedy, Sadhbh Whelan, Geoff Debelle, Diogo Lamela, Ulugbek Nurmatov, Donna O’Leary, Christian Torp-Pedersen, Sinéad Brophy, Marcella Broccia, Ruth Gilbert, Troels Græsholt-Knudsen, and Laura Cowley (coordinated by Catherine Quantin).


  • Universitatea Babes-Bolyai (Maria Roth) will coordinate the Symposium “Voices of Survivors of Child Maltreatment: Participatory research with adult survivors – an essential contribution to research on child maltreatment".


  • Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Dijon (Catherine Quantin) will actively participate in the congress activities.


By meeting other international and multidisciplinary professionals working to end violence and neglect against children, we ensure that our research activities will be part of a common answer to reduce maltreatment.


We guarantee to act together to improve detection of maltreatment and improve children care throughout Europe, and we commit to build meaningful recommendations to influence policy and European practices.

 
 

SERENA is funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the EUROPEAN HEALTH AND DIGITAL EXECUTIVE AGENCY (HADEA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

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