WAVE in Lisbon Addictions 2024

WAVE contributes to Lisbon Addictions 2024 edition in 3 ways:

1. 1. The co-produced WAVE Track “Empowering the Addiction Workforce”, with 16 sessions, including workshops on key areas relating to the theme.
   2. The WAVE Cinema Video Contest and discussion sessions – exploring short audiovisual pieces relevant to ALL conference strands.
   3. Providing  up to 120 bursaries to support the attendance of European and international addictions workforce experts and professionals 

The WAVE Track in Lisbon Addictions

WAVE, in collaboration with the 4 CoP Working Groups, has co-produced 3 types of invited sessions for Lisbon Addictions 2024 (click on the links for more information):

1. WAVE Major Session: (jump to description)

• • New perspectives: AI as a tool to support the addictions workforce (Thurs 24/10, 15h-16:30h, Main Auditorium)
    • Chair: Matthijs Blankers (Chief Science Officer, Trimbos-instituut, NL)
    • Speakers:
      • Elissa Weitzman (Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, USA),
        
      • Jordi Piera i Jiménez (Director of the Digital Health Strategy Office, Catalan Health Service, ES)
        
      • Christina Todorova (Independent / Visiting Researcher, Ireland’s National Centre for AI (CeADAR), IE)

2. WAVE Co-created Workshops:

• • LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® Hands-On Workshop on Optimizing Workplace and Well-Being for Workers in Addiction Fields (Wed 23/10, 15h-16:30h, Room 1.15)
    • Facilitators: Abhishek Ghosh (Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, IN) & Pere Juarez (University of Barcelona, ES)
  • Professionals’ insights into the use of AI and digital tools in addictions (Wed 23/10, 16:50h – 18:20, Room 1.15)
    • Facilitators: Parnian Rafei (Trinity College Dublin, IE), Hugo López & Clara Oliveras (Clínic Research Foundation Barcelona)
  • Back-casting exercise on peer-support workforce development (Thurs 24/10, 10:50 – 12:20, Room 1.15)
    • Facilitators: Florian Scheibein (Research Assistant, South East Technological University, IE), Irena Molnar (Executive Directress, NGO Re Generation, RS) & Zoe Swithenbank (Senior Research Associate, Spectrum Centre for Mental Health Research, Lancaster University, UK)
  • How to train an addiction specialist? (Thurs 24/10, 15h-16:30h, Room 1.10)
    • Facilitators: Amalie Lososová, Anna Volfová & Elizabeth Nováková (Charles University and General University Hospital, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Department of Addictology, CZ)

3. Video Screening and discussion sessions: (jump to more info)

• • WAVE Cinema Video contest session 1: Showcasing innovative science and services (Wed 23/10, 15h–16.30h, Room 1.09)
    • Chairs: Elena Torrell-Pedreira (Public Health Agency of Catalonia (ASPCAT), ES) & Charity Aienobe-Asekharen ( Brunel University London, UK)
  • WAVE Cinema Video contest session 2: Sharing insightful lived experience (Thurs 24/10, 13.20–14.50, Room 1.09)
    • Chairs: Calvert Tisdale (University of New South Wales (UNSW), AUS) & Laoise Darragh (Correlation – European Harm Reduction Network, NL)
  • WAVE Cinema Video Contest session 3: Journeys through addiction science and lived experience (Fri 25/10, 10.50–12.20,Room 1.09)
    • Chairs: J. Maphisa Maphisa (PsycBotsogo, Botswana) & Fleur Braddick, (Clínic Research Foundation Barcelona, ES)

WAVE Major Session:

New perspectives: AI as a tool to support the addictions workforce

In the near future, Europe, and the rest of the world, faces a potential decline in the number of addiction professionals, with probable impacts on addiction care across the intervention spectrum.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) may potentially address some of the foreseen human resource shortages, as well augmenting professional capabilities and increasing efficiency.

However, such technological synergy also sparks ethical considerations for addiction prevention, harm reduction and treatment, raising questions about how we can ensure future ethical practices in this field.

The WAVE major session presented 3 angles related to AI as a tool for the addiction workforce, followed by an interactive panel discussion:

• 1) Digital Phenotyping and Using AI with Youth (Elissa Weitzman),
• 2) AI in the system – Large-Scale Day-To-Day Public Health Practice (Jordi Piera-Jimenez),
• 3) Beyond the Digital Veil: The Prosaic Challenges Behind AI-Supported Behavioral Addiction Treatment (Christina Todorova)

Click here to view the final video entries to the WAVE Cinema Video Contest

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Prizes

• Category Prizes: 1st prizes of 550€, 2nd prizes of 400€, and 3rd prizes of 250€ will be awarded in each category.
• Special awards: WAVE Coordination decided to combine the funds of the People’s Prize with prize-money donated back by one of the winners, to present two impartial ‘special awards’ of 250€ – for Community Impact and Creative Expression – based on the contest judging criteria.

* Please note, the monetary prizes may be subject to withholding tax and must comply with the applicable fiscal regulations at the time of award. No video-maker will be eligible for more than one category prize (in the case of submitting multiple videos).

The WAVE Video Contest Winners

(click here or on the film title to watch the video entries in a new window)

Video-maker joined online

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Past experiences:

The WAVE Video Contest follows on from a similar activity in Lisbon Addictions 2022, organised by the Inter·GLAM Project. To see the entries and prizewinners from the previous edition, please see here.