IDF Europe Type 2 Diabetes Community “T2gether”
The type 2 diabetes platform, now known as “T2gether” was launched by IDF Europe with an initial summit held in March 2024. The platform aims to promote more engagement on the part of people living with type 2 diabetes (T2D), in an effort to amplify the voice of people living with the condition. The platform will provide members with the necessary skills, training and networks to become strong and confident advocates who can represent their community at a national and pan-European level. We already have over 30 active T2D advocate members and are excited to keep growing T2gether over the course of the year.
Leveraging the great success of the first summit, we are now planning our second T2gether summit to be held in Brussels on 9th – 11th May, 2025. Our second summit hopes to attract new T2gether members with the aim to further understand the barriers to and facilitators of T2D engagement in advocacy work, identify synergies at national and European levels and to continue seeking input towards the development of our advocate training programme.
For more information about T2gether or the upcoming summit, please contact marian.brennan@idf-europe.org
Are you interested in learning more about our T2gether? Contact us at idfeurope@idf-europe.org.
On March 16-17, IDF Europe held a Summit in Brussels with the current members of the platform and other people living with T2D who are interested in joining the community. Some 35 people from all over Europe and all walks of life joined the event and showed great enthusiasm for the opportunity to engage and share their personal experience with people living with the same condition.
The T2D Summit was the first of its kind and generated inspiring and insightful discussions on the barriers to T2D engagement in advocacy, on the opportunities for creating synergies at national and European levels and on the skills necessary to become strong diabetes advocates.
We recently interviewed Vilen Michev, a T2D Platform member from Bulgaria, who shared his experience at the first T2D Summit in Brussels and what motivates him to engage in advocacy.