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CIICA’s General Assembly | 9 May 2025 | Online

As according to our statutes, the 2025 GA of CIICA.AISBL will be held online on Friday 9 May at 20:00 UK time.

To be admitted to the GA and to have the right to vote, one has to be a Full Member: Full Members are the Board and our three members of the Communication Group. All our Community Members may, at their request, attend the GA but do not have the right to vote. Community members who would like to attend the meeting are very welcome, and please email info@ciicanet.org for the link, to be able to do so.

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Our overview of 2024 at and our full Annual report are below.

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Our Vision for CIICA

The vision of CIICA is a world in which awareness of the benefits of CI are well known to those with deafness and hearing loss, their families, professionals in the field of deafness and hearing loss, the general public and public health decision makers. A world where access to CI and lifelong support is available for all appropriate.

Our Goals

to connect people and encourage them to be active themselves..

To increase the number of people globally who have access to cochlear implants and lifelong support by:

Raising the international global awareness of the health, social and economic benefits of cochlear implants for those who could benefit from implantation, health care practitioners and wider society.
Empowering user led advocacy and awareness raising activity to influence governments and health funders to invest in addressing the under provision of CIs and other implantable technologies, related habilitation, after care and up-grades.
Supporting CI advocates with the tools they need to achieve change.

Our agreed objectives

To share user and family driven advocacy via a shared digital platform: the Community of Action.
To empower CI user groups globally
To foster collaboration across the CI sector
To enhance the global impact of user advocacy on CIs
To influence public policy decisions on hearing health and CI
To provide an opportunity for data collection, and user driven research on CIs
To develop and support advocates to become regional and global leaders in their community and have greater impact internationally.
To exchange resources and research updates