Raising the Bar in Respiratory Care by EUFOREA: Report of the European Union Parliament Symposium, April 2024

Peter Hellings ^1* Diego Marcelo Conti ² Xander Bertels ³ Vibeke Backer ⁴ Guy Brusselle ⁵ Eugenio De Corso ⁶ W. J. Fokkens ⁷ Adam T Fox ⁸ Philippe Gevaert ⁹ Susanne Lau ¹⁰ Georgia Liva ¹¹ Susanna Palkonen ¹² Alberto Papi ¹³ Sophie Scheire ³ Peter Schmid-Grendelmeier ¹⁴ Catherine Shire ¹⁵ Peter Smith ¹⁶ Thijs Teeling ¹⁵ Arzu Yorgancıoğlu ¹⁷ Glenis Kathleen Scadding ¹⁸

• ¹ KU Leuven Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Allergy and Clinical Immunology Research unit, Leuven, Belgium., Leuven, Belgium
• ² Allergy and Clinical Immunology Research Unit, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
• ³ The European Forum for Research and Education in Allergy and Airway Diseases Scientific Expert Team Members, Brussels, Belgium., Brussels, Belgium
• ⁴ Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery, and Audiology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark., Copenhagen, Denmark
• ⁵ Department of Respiratory Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium, Ghent, Belgium
• ⁶ Otorhinolaryngology Unit, A. Gemelli University Hospital Foundation IRCCS, Rome, Italy., Rome, Italy
• ⁷ Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Amsterdam University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• ⁸ Children’s Allergy Service, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, London, UK, London, United Kingdom
• ⁹ Upper Airways Research Laboratory, Department of Head and Skin, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, Ghent, Belgium
• ¹⁰ Department of Pediatric Respiratory Medicine, Immunology and Critical Care Medicine, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany., Berlin, Germany
• ¹¹ Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University of Crete, School of Medicine, Heraklion, Greece., Heraklion, Greece
• ¹² European Federation of Allergy and Airways Diseases Patients' Associations (EFA), Brussels, Belgium., Brussels, Belgium
• ¹³ Respiratory Medicine, Univerity of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy, Ferrara, Italy
• ¹⁴ Allergy Unit, Dept of Dermatology, University Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland, Zurich, Switzerland
• ¹⁵ Patient Advisory Board of the European Forum for Research and Education in Allergy and Airway Diseases, Brussels, Belgium., Brussels, Belgium
• ¹⁶ Griffith University School of Medicine Gold Coast Australia, Gold Coast, Australia
• ¹⁷ Department of Chest Diseases, Celal Bayar University Faculty of Medicine, Manisa, Türkiye., Manisa, Türkiye
• ¹⁸ Department of Allergy & Rhinology, Royal National ENT Hospital, London, United Kingdom., London, United Kingdom

In April 2024, the European Summit 'Raising the bar in respiratory care' was organized by the European Forum for Research and Education in Allergy and Airway Diseases (EUFOREA) in the European Parliament and hosted by Members of the European Parliament Dorien Rookmaker and Mislav Kolakušić. The aim of the Summit was to respond to the need of European patients suffering from chronic respiratory diseases (CRDs) by joining forces with European and global organisations in the management of the epidemics of CRD, recognising the weaknesses of current care models and focussing on collaboration to improve care and prevention. Participants belonging to International and National Societies and Committees from the European Rhinologic Society (ERS), International Rhinologic Society (IRS), Belgian Respiratory Society (BeRS), Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA), Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD), Global Alliance against Chronic Respiratory Diseases (GARD), and from the European Federation of Allergy and Airways Diseases Patients Associations (EFA) and the EUFOREA´s Patient Advisory Board (PAB) described their vision and action plan to work in partnership to raise the bar in respiratory care. This report summarizes the contributions of the representatives of different European stakeholders in the field of CRDs.