This report focuses on synthesising the overall results from the EU-JAV document entitled “Guidelines on procedures to estimate vaccine needs and procurement in EU” and propose some future recommendations on important mechanisms that should be in place in Europe to improve and ensure vaccine supply and reduce shortages.

This document describes the dissemination activities carried throughout the duration of the EU-JAV following the procedure described in the Strategic Dissemination Plan (D2.4).

In the context of the EU-Joint Action on Vaccination, a social media and web monitoring platform was developed (accessible at www.opbg.cloud) to monitor population sentiment and opinions towards vaccines and vaccination, and to identify the most influential on-line players on vaccine-related topics. This report describes the methodology used for the development of the platform, and the platform structure.

The specific purpose of this deliverable is to identify sustainable mechanisms to decrease funding fragmentation and increase the potential more collaboration and shared funding on common priorities.

This report focuses on the procedures to estimate vaccine needs and procurement . It synthetises:
1) a survey on procedures to estimate vaccine needs in EU/EEA, conducted among persons in charge of national or subnational immunisation programme(s) or of vaccine supply/procurement;
2) a survey on introduction of new or improved vaccines and possible upcoming changes to recommendations for existing vaccines, conducted among National Immunization Technical Advisory Groups (NITAGs);
3) discussions with Vaccines Europe, one of the main stakeholders for this WP, including the collection of responses to a specific set of questions on vaccine procurement.

A future coordinated cross-border measles vaccination catch-up campaign was envisaged to tackle immunity gaps in populations that have not been vaccinated against measles as part of the regular national childhood vaccination programmes (NIP). The aim of this report is to provide a review of experience and best practice on what has already been done across borders and what can be gained by teaming up, as well as the facilitators and barriers, regarding all vaccines (including Covid-19 vaccination).

This report aimed to:
• Obtain information regarding the possibility to send out automatic vaccination reminders/recall by the regional or national Immunisation Information System (IIS) in place;
• Identify if the countries had identified any barriers (languages, social, cultural) regarding the implementations of vaccine reminder systems;
• Identify the most optimal reminder systems.