Report on patient advocacy activities

DRIVE is committed to supporting diabetes patient advocacy groups across the consortiums member countries and indeed across Europe. This task will be managed by NUIG and contributed to by all DRIVE partners who will contact the major diabetes patient advocacy groups in their home countries. The DRIVE consortium will raise the awareness of the importance of diabetes as a problem in modern society through the participation in public events, open lectures and free to attend conferences and support the lobbying of governments by advocacy groups for increased funding towards diabetes research and diabetes services for patients.