On July 30, 2014, 13 participants attended the first WG2 "Database" Meeting in Regensburg, Germany.

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On july 4th 2014 in Athens, Greece (hosted by the University of Athens) the first WG1 "Clinical' was attended by 17 participants. The countries represented were: Greece, The Netherlands, Portugal, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Poland, The Czech Republic, Romania, and Malta.

The meeting proved very productive in that it led to consensus-based decisions about the work-group aims, yearly estimated progress of our work group,  rich brainstorm sessions, a plan of action for the coming years, and a first step in the development of a questionnaire. Data gathered from a variety of clinicians across Europe by means of this questionnaire will lead to a description of the 'Clinical' status quo in Europe in tinnitus healthcare & assessment in the first year. Combining these results a stepped-care tinnitus health-care and assessment proposal will be drafted. This proposal will be assessed by using the 'Delphi' method, after which we aim to provide a description of 'Consensus-based, harmonized, and adaptive guidelines for demographic and clinical assessment of tinnitus-patients' by the end of the TINNET project.

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Audiology Worldnews: TINNET as the next step in tinnitus research: Towards evidence-based medicine

The Online Journal Audiology Worldnews published a summary of the speech that Berthold Langguth held on the TINNET COST action during the 8th International TRI Tinnitus Conference from 10-13 March in Auckland, New Zealand.

Article at Audiology Worldnews

The TINNET kick-off meeting was held in Brussels, Belgium, on 11. April 2014. During the meeting the Grant Holder, Chair, Vice-Chair, and other important roles of the Action were nominated.

 Other relevant dates are:

• Approval by the Committee of Senior Officials: 15-11-2013
• Start of the Action: 11-04-2014
• End of the Action: 10-04-2018 (4 years)