AICRI involves collaboration with academic institutions across the island of Ireland, health services, industry, government agencies in Northern Ireland and Ireland and of course patients are at the core of our work.
From the outset a lot of time has been spent engaging with a broad range of stakeholders explaining to them our vision for AICRI and how we planned to achieve this. We were successful in building up trust and getting several stakeholders involved in our project.
AICRI is a collaboration of ten academic institutions across the island of Ireland
Other Stakeholders Include
Engagement with Cancer Patients
AICRI held a successful hybrid workshop with patients living with and beyond cancer in March 2022, so as to ensure their voice is heard in AICRI's Research Programme.
Patients are at the core of our work and indeed our ethos is “With the patient; around the patient; for the patient”. On 30th March 2022, we held a hybrid Patient Stakeholder Workshop, held in Cork and co-led by AICRI representatives and the Patient Voice in Cancer Research (PVCR) at UCD. This workshop was attended by 64 people (24 in-person and 40 online). This was a key event as one of AICRI’s main objectives is to engage with cancer patient advocacy groups across the island to ensure the voice of patients living with and beyond cancer is heard. This is central to AICRI’s vision. Download the programme here.
Engagement with Cancer Research Supporting Charities
We held an online workshop with key cancer research supporting charities on the island of Ireland in June 2022. It is important to recognise the impact of charities on the cancer research landscape in Ireland and Northern Ireland.
On 30th June 2022, we held an online Cancer Charities workshop with seven key cancer research-supporting charities on the island of Ireland as follows: Cancer Focus NI, Friends of the Cancer Centre Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland Pancreatic Cancer, the Irish Cancer Society, Breakthrough Cancer Research, the Oesophageal Cancer Fund and the National Children's Research Centre. This was a very engaging workshop as we explored how these cancer charities could collaborate with one another and learned more about their current research activities and priorities. Breakthrough Cancer Research has established the All-Ireland – Cancer Network (AllCaN) programme. The AllCaN Grant Programme (2023-2027) invests €1 million in oesophageal cancer research with the aim of significantly improving early detection and survival of the disease.
