Where: Florence, Italy
Date: 6-8 March 2023
Speakers from Net&Me Action:
Problematic use of the internet and related addictions, Dr. JULIUS BURKAUSKAS and Prof. Dr. NAOMI A. FINEBERG
Where: Wroclaw, Poland
Date: 4-7 Oct 2022
Speakers from Net&Me Action:
Policy responses to problematic internet use. Prof. Dr. ZSOLT DEMETROVICS
Preventing problematic internet use during the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. JULIUS BURKAUSKAS and Prof. Dr. NAOMI A. FINEBERG
Where: Lithuanian Parliament and online
Date: 30 Sep 2022
Speakers from Net&Me Action:
Keynote lecture. Global paralysis – modern behavioral addictions. Prof. Dr. MARC N. POTENZA
Plenary lecture. Why it is important to investigate motivation in behaviral addictions? Prof. Dr. ZSOLT DEMETROVICS
Lecture. Problematic use of the internet: invisible elephant in the room, Dr. JULIUS BURKAUSKAS and Prof. Dr. NAOMI A. FINEBERG
In July 2022, members of the COST research team consulted with 37 young people in the UK, Portugal and Germany.
We met with them in person and also remotely, depending on what was convenient for the young people.
In all three countries we asked the same questions about their views and experiences of using the internet (and the experiences of their family and friends). We also talked to them about our plans for the BOOTSTRAP research project, asking them their views about how we were planning to design the research to see what they thought of our plans and how they could be improved.
“The main goal of this training course is to prepare interdisciplinary teams to develop solutions that are co-defined and co-designed with the involvement of patients and professionals”
Where: University of Porto, Portugal
Date: September – November 2022
State of the Art in Problematic Usage of the Internet: Disorders, Models, Mechanisms, Interventions and Human Digital Rights.Where: online via zoom and in person UK
Date: 30th – 31st March 2022
Venue: The Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole street London, UK
“Minds on Media: The Associations between Screen Engagement and Children’s Developing Brains,” “Ask the Experts” webinar.
What difficulties do our children face in terms of their attention spans, creativity, memories and ability to think deeply as they consume more and more media? How are their brains being rewired? What are our kids learning from online activities rather than from parents, teachers, or friends, and vice-versa? How can we use screens responsibly in order to have a positive impact on their cognitive abilities both at home and in the classroom?
Where: Online
Date: 3rd November 2021
International Training school on Problematic Usage of the Internet in a changing societyWhere: Online
Date: 6th – 8th October 2021
Venue: Vila Gale Opera Lisbon, Portugal
Where: Lisbon, Portugsl / Online
Date: Oct 8 2021
April 28, 9:00-17:30h UK time (BST)
EU COST Action of the European network for the problematic usage of the internet
Where: Online
Date: Friday 9th April 2021
Time: 14:00-17.20 (CET)
Public meeting: Problematic Internet Use in the time of the Covid-19 pandemic
Where: Online
Date: 22nd Oct 2020
Time: 17:00 – 19:30 (CET)
Please join our public meeting. Guest talks and top tips from a panel of international expert.
International training school on Problematic Internet Use
Where? Online
When? 21st Oct -23rd Oct 2020
20th WPA World Congress of Psychiatry
Where? Bangkok, Thailand on
When? 14-17 October 2020
Type of event? Symposium – PROBLEMATIC USAGE OF THE INTERNET – FROM OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE RELATED DISORDER TO BEHAVIOURAL ADDICTION
Who?
Chair(s):
Naomi A. Fineberg, United Kingdom
Joseph Zohar, Israel
Speakers:
Dan Stein, South Africa – Gaming Disorder – The New Kid in The Block
Konstantinos ioannidis, United Kingdom – PUI The Hidden Epidemic
Lior Carmi, Israel – Harnessing Technology to Diagnose and Treat Behavioral Addictions
The Digital Services Act Week
Where? Online
When? 30 June – 3 July 2020
Type of event? Forum Europe will record all of the interventions, discussions, and keynote speeches. After the series has finished, registered delegates will receive a final summary report of the proceedings and highlights of sessions will be available to watch online after the event.
Who? Members from European Parliament and European Commission as well as largest technology companies.
Safe and Effective Internet Use in the time of the Covid-19 pandemic: Guidance from COST Action 16207 European Network for Problematic Usage of the internet (times are CET)
Type of event? Webinar
15:00-15:05 Welcome, COST Academy
15:05-15:15 Internet use in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic: problematic engagement and therapeutic potential, Marc N. Potenza, MD, PhD (Yale University School of Medicine)
15:15-15:25 Fitness & lifestyles during the Covid-19 pandemic, Ornella Corazza, PhD (University of Hertfordshire)
15:25-15:35 COVID-19, Quarantine and Information Communication Technologies: recommendations and hints for a safe use, Giovanni Martinotti, MD, PhD (Università degli Studi Gabriele d’Annunzio)
15:35-16:00 Q&A panel, Prof. Naomi Fineberg (University of Hertfordshire), Prof. Edna Gruenblatt (University of Zurich), Dr. Susana Jimenez-Murcia (Bellvitge University Hospital), and Dr. Biljana Gjoneska (Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts)
14th European Congress on Heroin Addiction & Related Clinical Problems
Type of event? Symposium “PROBLEMATIC INTERNET USE AND RELATIONSHIP WITH PSYCHOPATHOLOGY SPECIFIC OF HEROIN ADDICTION” – oral presentation “EUROPEAN NETWORK FOR PROBLEMATIC INTERNET USE: CITIZENS INVOLVEMENT A PILOT STUDY IN PARENTS, IN GREECE”
When: 12.20 am, 29 May
Where: World Trade Center Grenoble, France
Who: Liljana Ignjatova (North Macedonia), Katerina Flora (Cyprus/Greece), Icro Maremmani (Italy).
Dear attendees,
We have been receiving regular communications from COST about the Coronavirus outbreak, which is relevant in relation to our forthcoming meetings in Budapest.
The Training School and Public Event are going ahead and we are monitoring the situation carefully.
If there is any change we will let you know immediately. Please check regularly the information and advice given on your respective national Ministries’ websites, in case your own personal travel status is affected by the outbreak.
If you have any concerns, you should immediately contact our administrator Natalie (n.hall4@herts.ac.uk).
Gaming and the brain
Type of event? A NeuroEthics panel discussion
When: 6.45 pm, Tuesday 4th February
Where: The Divinity School, St John’s College, Cambridge, UK
Who: Professor Paul Fletcher, Tameem Antoniade, Emma Reay, Dr Konstantinos Ioannidis, Dr Christelle Langley, Chaired by Alice White.
Problematic Use of the Internet
Type of event? WORKSHOP
When: December 6, 2019
Where: Villa Arrigo, Naxxar Malta
What: The agenda of the Workshop included the following activities: Determine what is Problematic use of the interne;
Familiarise participants with situations they may encounter in class where their students misuse or abuse internet and technology;
Identify skills, strategies and attitudes needed to deal with these situations;
Discuss Digital Citizenship Education as a solution.
Determine which CPD initiatives in DCE are relevant to Educators.
Who: Dr Philip Bonanno
Annual Congress of the Swiss Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (SGKJPP) “Today’s and Tomorrow’s Challenges in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry” / Swiss Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (SGKJPP)
Walitza, Susanne; Kaess, „Internet-Based Disorders: Current Status and Future Perspectives. Presentation, planned Symposia on PUI
When: 28.08.2020
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
At Lisbon Addictions 2019, Lisbon Congress Centre
Thursday, 24 October 2019 from 15:00 to 16:30
https://www.lisbonaddictions.eu/html.cfm/index269402EN.html
Lisbon Addictions 2019 is the largest multidisciplinary conference that provides a forum for networking across the addictions. A team of researchers of the “Internet and me” COST-funded project (https://www.internetandme.eu) will be sharing the latest evidence on Problematic Use of the Internet (PUI) and its impact on the health and wellbeing of European citizens. Presentations will cover classifications, phenomenology, assessments, aetiology and neurocognitive aspects of a variety of behavioural addictions. The discussion will be enriched by the presentation of a number of case studies.
https://www.lisbonaddictions.eu
Chair: Ornella Corazza, Department of Clinical and Pharmaceutical Science, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Speakers:
Contact person for further information: Dr Ornella Corazza
E-mail: O.corazza@herts.ac.uk
3rd IPKJ Psychotherapy Symposium „Life/Live Online – Risks and Opportunities from the Viewpoint of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy” / Institute of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy of the University Hospitals Basel, Bern and Zurich (IPKJ)
Kaess, Michael. Cybermobbing. Presentation; Poespodihardjo, Renato. nternet Addiction in Young People: A Challenge to the Therapeutic Relationship. Presentation; Bauer, Stephanie. I nternet-Based Interventions. Presentation; Franscini, Maurizia. Treatment Approach ROBIN: Standardized Manual and Smartphone App for Adolescents at Clinical High Risk for Psychosis. Presentation. (Chairs: S.Walitza, M.Kaess, K, Schmeck).
When: 19.09.2019
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Save the date: 12th September 2019 – 14:00 – 17:00
Location: Scandic Sluseholmen, Molestien 11, DK-2450 København SV, Copenhagen, Denmark
BeFa 2019 – 6th National Conference on ADHD for Those Affected and Experts “ADHD – (No Longer) an Issue?” / ADHD Organization elpos Switzerland & Swiss Society for ADHD (SGF ADHS)
Walitza, Susanne. ADHD and Pathological Internet Use. Presentation/Talk
When: 22.06.2019
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
7th World Conference on ADHD: From Child to Adult Disorder / World Federation of ADHD
Walitza, Susanne. Treatment of ADHD associated with pathological internet use. Presentation/Talk
Walitza, Susanne; Chamberlain, Samuel. Hot Topic Symposium “ADHD and problematic internet use”. Chairs & Speakers
When: 25.04.2019 – 28.04.2019
Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Save the date: 10th April 2019 – 14:00 – 17:00
Location: Warsaw, Poland
Training school dates: 14 – 16th January 2019
Venue: Clare College, Cambridge, UK
Chairs: Naomi A. Fineberg (naomi.fineberg@btinternet.com)
Local Organizing Committee: Sam Chamberlain (srchamb@gmail.com)
Administrator: Natalie Hall (n.hall4@herts.ac.uk)
The Interactive Sessions will be available to view live online
Programme
Monday 14th January 2019 Day 1:
9.00am-9.15am: Opening and meeting, welcome and update on COST Action
Speaker: Professor Naomi Fineberg and Professor J Zohar
9.15am-9.30am: Practicalities: Format of the conference and information about Cambridge
Speaker: Dr Sam Chamberlain
9.30am-11.30am: Interactive Training session 1:
Discussant: Professor M Brand
9.30am-10.00am:Introduction to PUI
Speaker: Professor Naomi Fineberg and Professor J Zohar
10.00am-10.30am: Classification of PUI; controversies and consensus
Speaker: Professor Dan Stein
10.30am-11.00am: Assessment of gaming disorder and PUI – what are the best scales?
Speaker: Professor Zsolt Demetrovics and Dr Orsolya Király
11.00am-11.30am: PUI and substances: a controversial correlation
Speaker: Dr Giovanni Martinotti
11.30am-12.00pm: Coffee break
12.00pm-1.00pm: Special Guest Plenary: Risk and Resilience in adolescent mental health
Speaker: Dr Anne-Laura van Harmelen, University of Cambridge
Tuesday 15th January 2019 Day 2
9.30am-11.30am: Interactive Training session 2:
Discussant: Professor Naomi Fineberg
9.30am-10.00am: Genetics of behavioural addiction, of relevance to PUI
Speaker: Professor Edna Grünblatt
10.00am-10.30am: Psychological and neurobiological mechanisms of PUI: an update
Speaker: Professor Matthias Brand
10.30am-11.00am: Cognitive mechanisms and PUI
Speaker:Dr Konstantios Ioannidis
11.00am-11.30am: PUI in childhood populations
Speaker: Professor Stefano Pallanti (via videolink)
11.30am-12.00pm: Coffee break
12.00pm-1.00pm: Special Guest Plenary: Innovative Statistical Approaches for Characterising Mental Disorders: Machine LEarning
Speaker:Dr Mattias Treder, Cardiff University
Wednesday 16th January 2019 Day 3
9.30am-11.30am: Interactive Training session 3:
Discussant: Dr Sam Chamberlain
9.30am-10.00am: PUI and ASD
Speaker: Professor Eric Hollander
10.00am-10.30am: Treatments for gambling disorder and related conditions: possible implications for PUI
Speaker: Professor Jon Grant
10.30am-11.00am: Treatments for obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders
Speaker:Professor Michael van Ameringen
11.00am-11.30am: Compulsive problems and disorders in children and adolescents
Speaker: Professor Dan Geller
11.30am-12.00pm: Coffee break
12.00pm-1.00pm: Special Guest Plenary: Inflammation and Depression
Speaker: Dr Golam Khandaker, University of Cambridge
Save the date: 11th October 2018 – 14:00 – 17:00
Location: Campus Cièncias de la Salut de Bellvitge (Bellvitge Health Sciences Campus) Feixa Llarga st. 08907 Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
Conference date: 10th. October 2018
Venue: Auditorium Bellvitge University Hospital. L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona
Chairs: Naomi A. Fineberg. Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Trust and University of Hertfordshire, Welwyn Garden City, UK.
Joseph Zohar. Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
Programme
17:00 -17.15 Opening Ceremony
17.15- 18.00 Hooked on WiFi – my lived experience.
Speaker: Person with lived experience, with Susana Jiménez-Murcia as interviewer.
Discussant: Jose M Menchón
18:00-19:00: Can you be Addicted to the Internet? Neurobiological Models and Mechanisms
Speaker: Marc N. Potenza
Discussant: Matthias Brand
19:00-20:00: Treating Problematic Usage of the Internet- what might work?
Speaker: Jon Grant
Discussant: Eric Hollander
This Masterclass was streamed online on 29thMarch at the University of Hertfordshire as part of an activity of the Internet & Me COST funded project.
By looking at the recording of this event, you will learn more about the neurobiological mechanisms of behavioural addictions as well as the latest trends in Internet, Eating Disorders, Gambling and Exercise addictions.
Masterclass Programme
Introduction to the concept of behavioural addiction.
Prof Naomi Fineberg, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Gambling Disorder in the UK: an overview of the illness and its treatment.
Dr Henrietta Bowden-Jones, Imperial College London, UK
The Dark side of Appearance: the prevalence of Exercise Addiction in fitness clubs.
Dr Ornella Corazza, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Physiological and clinical aspects of Eating Disorders.
Dr Konstantinos Ioannidis, Cambridge University, UK
Internet Addiction and Hikikomori: a new psychopathological scenario.
Dr Giovanni Martinotti,“G. D’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy
Save the date: 22nd April 09:00 – 18:00
Meeting of Members
Venue: NH Koln Mediapark, Cologne, Germany
Joint Working Group meetings
Management Committee Meeting
Setting the work-plan agenda
Please join us, meet other members of the Action and share ideas.
50 places availale for Action Members
Allocated on a first come first served basis
Detailed programme coming soon
To register interest, please Email Natalie Hall: n.hall4@herts.ac.uk
Date of Conference: 26/11/2019
Place of Conference: Florence, Italy
Date of Conference: 25/11/2019
Place of Conference: The British Academy, London
Date of Conference: 25-28/10/2019
Place of Conference: Bucharest, Romania
Date of Conference: 23-25/10/2019
Place of Conference: Lisbon Congress Centre
Date of Conference: 10-12/10/2019
Place of Conference: Thessaloniki, Greece
Date of Conference: 25-26/09/2019
Place of Conference: Reykjavik, Iceland
Date of Conference: 21-24/08/2019
Place of Conference: Lisbon, Portugal
Date of Conference: 20-21/09/2019
Place of Conference: Agra, India
Date of Conference: 11/09/2019
Place of Conference: Copenhagen, Denmark
Date of Conference: 07-10/09/2019
Place of Conference: Copenhagen, Denmark
Date of Conference: 05-06/09/2019
Place of Conference: Clare College, Cambridge.
Date of Conference: 04-06/07/2019
Place of Conference: Vienna, Austria
Date of Conference: 17/06/2019
Place of Conference: Yokohama, Japan
Date of Conference: 09/06/2019
Place of Conference: Vilnius, Lithuania
Date of Conference: 24/05/2019 – 25/05/2019
Place of Conference: Vilnius, Lithuania
Date of Conference: 22/05/2019 – 25/05/2019
Place of Conference: Zlatibor, Serbia
Date of Conference: 16/04/2019
Place of Conference: University of Hertfordshire, UK
Date of Conference: 09/04/2019
Place of Conference: Warsaw, Poland
Date of Conference: 25/03/2019
Place of Conference: European Commission, Brussels
Date: 27/02/2019
Place of Conference: Portcullis House, Westminster, London, UK
Date of Conference: 07-10/03/2019
Place of Conference: Nice, France
Date of Conference: 05/03/2019
Place of Conference: Palanga, Lithuanian
Date of Conference: 03/03/2019
Place of Conference: University Mediterranean, Montenegro
Date of Conference: 26/01/2019
Place of Conference: London, UK
Date of Conference: 12/12/2018 – 13/12/2018
Place of Conference: Mavrovo, North Macedonia
Date of Conference: 12/12/2018
Place of Conference: Serbia
Date of Conference: 08/11/2018
Place of Conference: Newcastle, UK
Date of Conference: 30/10/2018 – 05/11/2018
Place of Conference: North Macedonia
Date of Conference: 10/10/2018
Place of Conference: Barcelona, Spain
Date of Conference: 9/10/2018
Place of Conference: Kaunas, Lithuania
Dates: 21 September 2018 – 6 January 2019
Science Gallery London
Date of Conference: 10-15/10/2018
Place of Conference: Long Island, New York, USA
Date of Conference: 06-09/10/2018
Place of Conference: Barcelona, Spain
Date of Conference: 22/08/2018
Place of Conference: Denmark
Date of Conference: 24-27/06/2018
Place of Conference: Birmingham, UK.
Date of Conference: 16-19/06/2018
Place of Conference: Vienna, Austria.
Date of Conference: 23-25/04/2018
Place of Conference: Cologne, Germany.