This is the newsletter of the European Commission’s eHealth, Wellbeing and Ageing team. It is hosted by the Digital Agenda for Europe Newsroom. In this update: Top news, Calls, Research & Innovation, Events

The 11th Tinnitus Research Initiative (TRI) Meeting and TINNET conference, will take place from March 14th to 16th, 2018 in Regensburg, Germany. The conference entitled “Disruptive Innovations in Tinnitus” will give you a great opportunity to learn about the details of major breakthroughs in tinnitus.

Special issue of the Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity journal (Hindawi Publ Corp) – Paper submission deadline extended to January 05, 2018.

Charity Action on Hearing Loss has been supporting the biotechnology company Otomagnetics, which has recently announced an important breakthrough towards preventing hearing loss caused by a widely used anti-cancer drug.

[Spanish] El sábado 9 de diciembre a las 18:30h en librería Artimaña la coordinadora de TARGEAR Isabel Varela-Nieto impartirá una conferencia sobre la sordera dentro del ciclo “Ciencia de Tomo y Lomo”.

[Spanish] 10º aniversario de la aprobación de la Ley que regula las lenguas de signos españolas y los medios de apoyo a la comunicación oral: El 23 de octubre de 2007 se aprobó la Ley 27/2007 por la que se reconocen las lenguas de signos españolas y se regulan los medios de apoyo a la comunicación oral de las personas sordas, con discapacidad auditiva y sordociegas.

Soundbite is the monthly newsletter of Action on Hearing Loss focussing on biomedical research.This month we tell you about new PhD projects we’re funding, find out about technology being trialled in theatres to improve subtitling, talk about research into preventing childhood deafness, and introduce new information about products and technology to help with hearing loss.