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12.5.2010
VISA grant for ISCI
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The VISA cultural funding programme provided ISCI with an 1 million krona grant.
This amount is going to be the cornerstone an a new ISCI-project which will cover the reading of all published material regarding spinal cord injuries. The aim of the project is to review the material in respect to finding and combining scientific knowledge which can be used for progress in this field.
We want to use this opportunity and thank VISA for the goodwill regarding our work.
The idea behind this project is the same as was during World War II when the military powers established a scientific commission with the function to read everything published in the field of bacteriology. In this project information was found and put into action which turned out to be the beginning of the use of penicillin. |
6.5.2010
International campaign to raise awarness to spinal cord injuries
On april 30th the European Broadcasting Union introduced a 15 minutes News World Feed for TV stations in Europe, Asia, South and North America. See below.
The following organisations have already taken the ISCI Worlds News Feed provided by the European Broadcasting Union:
Andorra, RTVA
Algeria, Télédiffusion d'Algérie
Spain, Television Espanola
Iran, Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting
Iceland, Rikisutvarpid (Icelandic National Broadcasting Service)
Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation
Lithuania, Lietuvos Radijas Ir Televizija - TV
Malta, GO plc
Poland, Tv Nova Poland
Portugal, Radiotelevisao Portuguesa Ep
Switzerland, European Broadcasting Union
See here: A fighter in a land of volcano´s
22.4.2010
Akkur grant for ISCI
Auður Guðjónsdóttir, chairman ISCI receives the grant from Þorsteinn Jóhannesson, head of Akkur board. |
Akkur, the engineers and mechanicians endowment fund granted ISCI 800.000 krona.
The grant will be used in a PR project involving ISCI´s infomercial " The Paralyzed Puppet". In this project the infomercial has been translated into 29 languages and been sent to the European Broadcasting Union who distributes it to TV stations in Europe, Asia and America.
We want to thank Akkur for this!
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30.4.2010
International campaign to raise awarness to spinal cord injuries
On april 30th the European Broadcasting Union introduced a 15 minutes News World Feed for TV stations in Europe, Asia, South and North America.
The News Feed includes an announcement regarding the translation of the ISCI infomercial “paralyzed puppet” into 29 languages. The infomercial was offered free of charge for usage by TV stations, individuals and organizations.
Additionally the News Feed includes an interview with Auður Guðjónsdóttir, chairman of ISCI. The main purpose of ISCI is to raise global awarness to SCI and to urge the nations of the world to join hands in the search for cure of SCI.
See here: A fighter in a land of volcano´s
April 2010
“The Paralyzed Puppet” translated and narrated into 29 languages
the ISCI infomercial “the paralyzed puppet” has now been translated and narrated into 29 languages. The chosen languages cover the biggest part of the world and include:
English, spanish, german, arabian, russian, bulgarian, greek, hungarian, italian, french, polish, eistonian, latvian, lithuanian, serbian, romanian, portuguese, chinese, japanese, nepalese, indonesian, thai and turkish. Nationals of above mentioned countries assisted ISCI by lending their voices without charging any fees.
ISCI thank all these new icelanders for their help and the icelandic nation for making this projecting reality.
See here: http://isci.is/Aboutus/Media/
18.3.2010
5000 signatures handed over to WHO executive
- Iceland´s initiative praised
Auður Guðjónsdóttir, OR nurse and chairman of the Institute of Spinal Cord Injury Iceland – ISCI met WHO Regional Director for Europe Mrs Zsuzsanna Jakab and handed over 5000 signatures from residents in the nordic countries challenging the World Health Organisation to make every effort to ensure the launch of international efforts to seek a cure for spinal cord injuries.
Last december during the TV campaign “the paralyzed puppet” which was broadcasted concurrently in Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, Faroe Islands, Finland and Norway and lasted over a 3 weeks period about 5000 signatures were collected in a nordic petition challenging WHO to launch international efforts in the field of spinal cord injuries.
Mrs Jakab praised the icelandic initiative and assured Mrs Guðjónsdóttir that all propositions will be carefully reviewed.
The Institute of Spinal Cord Injury Iceland – ISCI operates an international database of innovations in spinal cord injury treatments. The web based database is in English, Spanish, Arabic, Russian and Chinese.
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The picture was taken at the Head Offices of WHO Regional Office for Europe in Copenhagen of Zsuzsanna Jakab (Regional Director) left and Auður Guðjónsdóttir (Chairman ISCI).
See here:http://isl.isci.is/English
january 2010
Nordic challenge to raise awarness on spinal cord injuries
Last december ISCI started a nordic challenge to raise awareness on spinal cord injuries by broadcasting the infomercial “the paralyzed puppet”. The campaign lasted three weeks and the infomercial was shown simultanously in TV stations in each nordic country, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Danmark, Finnland and Faroe Island. At the same time people in these countries were urged to sign a petition to the World Health Organization WHO to make every effort to ensure the launch of international cooperation in the search for cure of spinal injuries.
About 5000 people answered ISCI´s call and signed the petition and would we like to use this opportunity to thank everybody for this assistance!
The campaign was financed by the icelandic nation and again, ISCI wants to express its gratitude.
See here: http://isl.isci.is/English
december 2009
