Call for Presentations

By 16th May

Health Facilities As Critical Infrastructure: A Journey To A More Resilient and Sustainable Future

29-30 September; Study Tours 01 October, Oslo

The 2025 EuHPN workshop will examine how health facilities can aim for excellence and drive transformational progress, even when coping with financial stress, staff shortages, rapid and sometimes unpredictable advances in technology, and shifting patterns of health need.

We have now opened our call for speakers and presenters by focusing on one or more of the following areas:

1.       Resilience.  Making health facilities resilient to clinical, financial and operational challenges – through adaptive design and construction, responsiveness to changing care models and future-proofing for the coming decades.

2.       Excellence. Achieving excellence with constrained resources – by re-using existing estate, innovating through design and procurement, or investing in emerging technologies.

3.       Multi-purpose design.  Collaborating with other stakeholders to create multi-use, multi-function spaces and facilities to support system-wide care.

4.       Sustainability.  Taking sustainability to the next level – going beyond Net Zero, adapting buildings to new roles in healthcare, or committing to fully circular economies for structures, equipment and supplies.

5. Maximising the moment.  Upgrading existing facilities, breathingnew life into older assets, and making the best of what we have right now – without breaking the bank.

6. Security in critical infrastructure.  Ensuring that health facilities can be secure and responsive, even as the world faces increasing threats from conflicts, pandemics and climate crises.

Information for presenters

Most presentation slots at the workshop will be 20 – 25 minutes long, and will be grouped into thematic sessions.  Where time allows, we encourage presenters to take part in panel discussions at the end of each session, when the audience can comment and ask questions.  Sessions are chaired and facilitated by subject experts.

We ask presenters for permission to publish their materials on our website, following the workshop, but if that is not possible for any reason then we respect the presenter’s wishes.

The 2025 venue has recently upgraded conference facilities, with high quality audiovisual equipment and excellent catering facilities for coffee breaks and lunches.

Presenters are responsible for arranging, and paying for, their own travel and accommodation.  They should also register to attend the workshop, via our website, and will be offered a modest discount on the workshop fee.  This year we encourage all attendees to reserve a room with the Holmenkollen Park conference centre and hotel.

How to submit a proposal 

We are looking forward to welcoming speakers from across Europe, representing the worlds of healthcare system planning and finance, healthcare architecture and engineering, health facility construction, and healthcare infrastructure research.

If YOU would like to contribute, with a case study or research findings, please fill out the form below or contact us via info@euhpn.eu. by 16th May. 

We cannot guarantee acceptance of all proposals, but we will try to accommodate as many as possible.  Our aim is to confirm all accepted presentation proposals by 30th May.

You can submit a proposal to present as an individual or as a group of speakers.  If the latter, please remember that presenter slots are usually 20-25 minutes, which limits the time available to each speaker.