• Connecting with others with the same challenge
• Improving personal knowledge
• Supporting others
• Creating a common understanding about “attitudes”
• Being part of a great personal network
• A trigger for the future
• Sharing experience
• Learning respect for others
• A dream come true
• Gaining a wider European view on vaccines
• To meet and put faces to names
• Seeing results – an understanding that in this context size is irrelevant
• Gaining and understanding of the “patient experience” in different countries
• Thinking about our own attitudes and the importance of that
• Challenge of sharing and understanding different approaches
• Seeing the two different dimensions – the national and the international – and looking for harmonisation
• Inspiring to meet others doing the same thing in other European countries
• Things being done that would otherwise not have happened
• Gaining a better understanding of different cultures, working patterns and administration
• Making me think about communication
• Looking at where we can make things better and then doing it
• Gaining a global vision of the EU, but taking an account of individual country needs
• Too big to fail!
• Improving the opportunities for children to be immunised
• Opening up the education issue
• Realising the importance of my own work
• Helping to mobilise resources

Collected at the project meeting in Madrid in September 2009