Organization: Udito Italia
Title: MATARONA DELL’UDITO 2026
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Matarona dell’udito 2026
Description:
In line with the World Health Organization’s guidelines, Udito Italia annually promotes Hearing Day, a major event at the Italian Parliament. This year, the celebration, taking place on February 26th and 27th, aims to promote an integrated vision of hearing care that begins in the community and finds schools as a privileged place for prevention, early identification, and care. The goal is to foster dialogue between institutions, the healthcare system, the education system, and civil society, promoting best practices, operational tools, and collaborative models capable of guaranteeing every child, and indeed every individual, the right to hear, communicate, and learn. During the event, experts will meet to discuss and then launch a shared agenda (Quaderni 2026) that calls on all stakeholders—institutions, healthcare professionals, educators, and communities—to jointly commit to making hearing care an integral part of health policies and educational programs, ensuring that no child is left behind. During the day, initiatives will be proposed to institutions to raise awareness of the importance of hearing health, especially in schools, and the issue will be encouraged to be addressed by proposing surveys to experts from the Ministry of Education to assess the suitability of classrooms. Furthermore, through collaboration between various healthcare professionals, a protocol for mandatory school screening will be proposed. For Udito Italia, this is the eleventh year of celebrating World Hearing Day. Over the years, this activity has led to the establishment of a Parliamentary Intergroup dedicated to hearing, a significant achievement as it is the first time such a body has been established within Italian institutions to address hearing health. The topics proposed to the Intergroup will be studied at the Working Groups that meet on the first day of the celebrations and constitute the preparatory work that will then be presented and approved at the public meeting of the Italian Parliament.
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Primary site: EUR – Italy
Region: EUR
General Photos
Greetings from the institutions at the Chamber of Deputies
Hearing Day 2025 Chamber of Deputies
Constitution of the inter-parliamentary group on Health and
Nonno Ascoltami! hearing screening campaign
Types of Engagement:
Live event: Yes
Screening: No
Traditional media: Yes
Social media: Yes
Special needs populations: persons with disabilities (including hearing loss), children and adolescents
Met with individual policymaker: Yes
Participation of policy makers: Yes
Participation of influencers: Yes
WHO technical tool used: Yes
WHO educational and social media used: Yes