Business school students join effort to help ‘beat cancer’

On Thursday, 11th March 2021, CheerUp London, a cross-campus student society of ESCP Business School, organised a conference to discuss Europe’s Beating Cancer Action Plan.

The guest speaker – Head of Cabinet of Commissioner Didier Reynders at the European Commission, Isabelle Fabre, was joined by moderators Juliette Perignon and Celeste Mastria, Co-presidents of CheerUp London.

Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan was launched in February 2021 by Ursula von der Leyen, and its impacts are already visible.

During the conference four key action areas were discussed. These include prevention, early detection, diagnosis and treatment, and ultimately the improvement of the quality of life for cancer patients and survivors.

Ten flagship initiatives are also being developed, and these were further explained and discussed during the conference. These include a ‘Knowledge Centre on Cancer’, an ‘EU-supported Cancer Screening Scheme’ and a ‘Helping Children with Cancer Initiative’, to name a few.

 “I enjoyed this discussion with ESCP students active in the CheerUp association. Dedicating their time to a charity is remarkable and is a piece of the larger puzzle that the European Commission tries to put in place with the implementation of Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan adopted last month” says Isabelle Fabre.

Juliette Perignon, Co-president of CheerUp London, summarised,

“The participants were engaged and interested. I am happy they learnt something about the cancer plan and I learnt a lot of new things myself”.

Through events like this, ESCP Business School continues to demonstrate how their influence is felt far beyond the boundaries of their activities on campus, but rather on society as a whole.

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