Find details of some of our best campaigns from the last 10 years below:
2024: Parkinson’s Summer of Sport
Launching on World Parkinson’s Day 2024, the Parkinson’s Summer of Sport was a celebration of the benefits of getting active for Parkinson’s, sharing the inspirational stories of people with Parkinson’s across Europe who are finding confidence, improved symptoms and friendship through exercise.
2023: Taking action to prevent the renewal of glyphosate
Ahead of a vote in the European Parliament to renew the controversial pesticide glyphosate – which many experts believe could be a cause of health problems including Parkinson’s and cancer – we ran an advocacy campaign urging EU Member States to vote NO to the renewal.
While, disappointingly, the renewal vote still passed, we were inspired by the strong support we received from our community, and will continue to raise awareness about the harmful effects of pesticides.
Campaign resources and downloads
2023: “Connect with us” campaign at World Parkinson Congress
We were delighted to join the thousands of people who attended the World Parkinson Congress in Barcelona during July 2023. Highlights of our time at the Congress included:
- Hosting a joyous social event which saw our friends and colleagues united in one room for the first time since the pandemic
- Presenting several posters, including our Parkinson’s Manifesto for Europe
- Receiving a video message from none other than Sir Paul McCartney at the opening ceremony
We also enjoyed talking to many Congress attendees from across Europe – from people with Parkinson’s to healthcare professionals, charity representatives and treatment industry figures – at our Connect With Us map, where they could add their name and organisation to show just how much of the European Parkinson’s community was represented.
Roundup: World Parkinson Congress 2023 highlights
2022: A Parkinson’s Manifesto for Europe
To commemorate our 30th anniversary in 2022, we worked with the Parkinson’s community to develop a manifesto that aims to shine a light on what is important to people living with Parkinson’s – their hopes, dreams and ambitions – and ensuring that their voices are heard.
To create this Manifesto, as well as taking the latest findings from Parkinson’s campaigns and reports into consideration, we also sent a Europe-wide survey to the Parkinson’s community – in nine different languages – collecting responses from almost 1,000 people in 39 countries.
The resulting 30 wishes in the Manifesto covered everything from Parkinson’s research and treatment to quality of life, awareness and education. The Manifesto also formed a huge part of our new multi-year strategy launched in 2025.
Read the Parkinson’s Manifesto for Europe
2022-2023: Parkinson’s creativity project
A remarkable discovery, well known within the Parkinson’s community and quite unknown to many others, is a potential link between Parkinson’s and the unlocking of tremendous creative potential. Our Parkinson’s creativity project explored this phenomenon.
This included a two-day Innovation Lab workshop at Market Hall in Plymouth, UK in July 2022, which brought together artists living with Parkinson’s, neurologists, geriatricians and more to experiment with immersive experiences and explore how to raise awareness of and encourage this ‘creative burst’ experienced by people with Parkinson’s.
Find creativity events and experiences on our interactive Parkinson’s map
Find out more about Parkinson’s creativity
2021: Parkinson’s Sleep Well Week
Our awareness campaign for sleep problems in Parkinson’s took place from 24th to 30th May 2021, and included:
- Our Sleep Well Week awareness video (above) and social media campaign
- A range of sleep videos, including expert advice on sleep problems from neurologists and doctors, and powerful testimony from people with Parkinson’s about the sleep problems they face
- Downloadable resources like our Sleep Well leaflet and a Q&A with The Sleep Charity
Campaign downloads
2018: The Parky Challenge
Our Europe-wide fundraising drive challenged participants to sign up to a fundraising event of their choice – from a marathon to a sponsored silence or coffee morning – and then register their event on our website, and donate any money raised to Parkinson’s Europe. Our generous supporters helped to raise thousands of Euros for Parkinson’s Europe.
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2017-2018: #UniteForParkinsons
#UniteForParkinsons was a global Parkinson’s campaign by Parkinson’s Europe and Parkinson’s UK to raise unprecedented awareness of Parkinson’s around the world and to grow an active global Parkinson’s community.
It took place on World Parkinson’s Day 2017 and 2018, and saw global Parkinson’s organisations use the hashtag #UniteForParkinsons and share stories from people living with the condition, including the powerful film above.
In 2018, the hashtag was used 26,000 times across the world and the campaign created almost 1 million social media engagements.
2014-2017: My PD Journey
We led this European coalition which worked towards improving the lives of people living with Parkinson’s disease. Working alongside people with Parkinson’s, carers, patient organisations, neurologists, doctors and other members of the Parkinson’s community, we carried out various projects, such as:
- The European Inventory, a research project designed to identify gaps in Parkinson’s care and seek out national examples of good practice that could be adopted in other regions.
- The Parkinson’s Disease Composite Scale, a rating scale for doctors and neurologists to use to measure the severity of symptoms experienced by people with Parkinson’s