Upcoming Workshop

2025 EuHPN Workshop

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

Join us in Oslo, Norway

Main Programme 29-30 September; Study Tours 01 October

with the support of

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

In challenging times or with constrained resources, how can health facilities continue to support population health needs?  How can they improve their clinical, environmental, social and financial performance, while coping with the need to be adaptive and flexible?  How do we build resilience into existing and new infrastructure, and ensure that it has a sustainable future?  How can we be realistic, as well as ambitious, in creating future healthcare infrastructure?

Over two days, 29-30 September 2025, 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 who can address our theme of Health Facilities As Critical Infrastructure: A Journey To A More Resilient and Sustainable Future, by focusing on one or more of the following areas:

• 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.

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

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

• 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.

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

• 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.

About the workshop

The EuHPN annual workshop is not an academic conference, and it is not a commercial event.  It is a meeting place for professionals working in healthcare infrastructure development, with a range of different backgrounds in facility design, construction and management, healthcare engineering, project management, infrastructure financing, academic research and R&D.  The overall aim of each workshop is to share knowledge and learn about best practice and the latest thinking in the field.  Our speakers and our audience reflect this eclectic mix, and represent many different types of organisation from the public and private sectors. 

The workshop’s location changes from year to year, with recent events being held in Barcelona (2024) and Copenhagen (2023).  You can view the presentations from these events here.  In 2025 we are delighted to be in Oslo, at the Holmenkollen Park conference centre and hotel.  The workshop is being organised with the collaboration and support of Sykehusbygg (the Norwegian health facility planning agency), the EuHPN board and our network member organisations.

The workshop’s main programme takes place over two days, with a mix of keynote speakers and thematically arranged presentations.  With audience numbers capped at around 100 attendees, there are ample opportunities for interactive discussions.  These often continue outside the hours of the formal programme, at the workshop dinner or at other social opportunities.  Our workshops attract sponsorship from a small number of supporting organisations, and we encourage their representatives to take a full and active role in contributing to the workshop’s learning aims.

On the third day of the workshop we organise optional study tours of health facilities in the local area, aiming to showcase some practical examples of innovation and excellence.

Registration 

You can register for the workshop here. Details of booking accommodation at the Holmenkollen Park hotel (and alternatives) can be found here.

Spread the word!

EuHPN workshops are multinational, multi-professional, and a great way to learn about the latest in healthcare infrastructure development.  We would love to hear your proposal for a presentation, and you should feel free to encourage your colleagues and contacts to do the same.

Sponsorship opportunities

EuHPN workshops attract a broad range of professionals, from Europe and beyond, including architects, engineers, health policy and health system financing experts, senior clinicians and directors of healthcare organisations.  They share a common interest in how best to plan, design and build all kinds of healthcare infrastructure.  We welcome interest from potential sponsors who would like to be part of our event.  If your organisation would like to support us, please contact us on info@euhpn.eu.

 Venue

Scandic Holmenkollen Park

Scandic Holmenkollen Park is a destination in itself and one of Oslo’s and Norway’s most unique hotels. It rises 350 metres above sea level, with astonishing views of Oslo and Nordmarka forest right on the hotel doorstep.

The building was completed in 1894 and was designed by Balthazar Lange in dragestil. It was originally built as a sanatorium for the treatment of tuberculosis patients by Ingebrigt Christian Holm (1844–1918).

After Holmenkollen Turisthotell burned down in 1914, the sanatorium was converted into use as a hotel. It was modernized in 1948, and again in 1982 for FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1982. Renovations took place in 1991, when the hotel was expanded with a conference center designed by Hans-Gabriel Finne. In 2021-22 the hotel rooms and conference facililties were extensively modernised.

Located right next to the Holmenkollen National Ski Arena and the Ski Museum, both available for visits.

The hotel is only a 30 minute metro ride from Oslo city centre to Holmenkollen metro station, followed by an uphill walk of around 800m. Taxis and ride-share companies are easily accessible.

Accommodation

For 2025, we strongly encourage workshop participants to book their accommodation at the Holmenkollen Park hotel, the venue for the event. Single rooms are available at 1740 NOK per night, 28 - 30 September; doubles at 2040 NOK, 28 - 30 September. To book rooms at this EuHPN rate, which includes free cancellation up to 14.09.25, you will need the booking code that will be sent on receipt of your registration form. You can also request the booking code by emailing info@euhpn.eu. Once you have your booking code, visit the Scandic Holmenkollen Park Hotel website and select the ‘Booking code or Bonus night’ tab to apply the code.

Please note that rooms are available under the EuHPN booking arrangements up to 30.06.25 - after this date they may be released - so you should book early whenever possible. With the EuHPN booking code you can cancel a room reservation, free of charge, up to 14.09.25.

Please note that EuHPN cannot arrange your accommodation for you, and is not affiliated to any third party booking sites.

If you choose not to stay at the Holmenkollen Park hotel, you may wish to choose a hotel in the centre of Oslo and travel to the workshop venue by T-Bane (metro, Holmenkollen station) or by taxi or rideshare. Please note that the venue is an 800m uphill walk fromT-Bane (metro) station.

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.