Welcome

Joint Welcome Note from the Chair and Vice-chair of the Bereavement Network Europe.
Bereavement Network Europe (in short BNE) is now being launched as a formal membership organization.

A European Movement, with all its linguistic and cultural diversity, has a lot to offer with respect to understanding and supporting bereavement. Researchers and practitioners have developed theoretical and support models which have progressed, and continue to progress, formal knowledge about grief and its consequences.

We aim to promote a European focus by providing a platform to:

  • Connect researchers and practitioners in European countries to engage in learning and exchange
  • Identify gaps in our scientific understanding of grief
  • Accommodate diversity
  • Ensure that bereavement is reflected in policy, research and education agendas across Europe

The Bereavement Network Europe (re)-launch
Over the past two years a Pan-European group of people have worked, on a voluntary basis, to prepare BNE for a (re)-launch. We have experienced a global Covid19 pandemic followed by a war between Ukraine and Russia on the European continent with real implications for bereavement. We predict an unprecedented need for bereavement care responses and services; therefore sharing professional knowledge across the grief and bereavement sectors in Europe is essential.

Bereavement Network Europe is now being launched as a formal membership organization that stands on the following vision and mission:

  • BNE is a broad-based collaboration of organizations, professionals, and volunteers from nations across Europe that works to improve support and understanding for bereaved people.
  • Our vision is that there should be a Europe-wide culture of compassion and provision of excellent support for bereaved people.

We invite professionals to become members to work together towards the collective purpose of sharing knowledge, building competence, and increasing political focus on grief and bereavement at national and European levels.

Kind Regards

Heidi Muller (GE) & Alba Payás (ES)