The high burden of cardiovascular disease is one of the biggest health challenges of the future. Every day, hundreds of people are suddenly affected by a cardiac arrest, stroke or other condition. The DCVA has set itself the goal to reduce the cardiovascular disease burden by a quarter in 2030. In order to make this happen, we focus on earlier detection of the disease, to develop solutions faster and bring them to patients.

In 2024, it was jointly decided to move away from an extensive annual plan to a three-year strategy. This fits well with where we are as an alliance, as the partners in DCVA focus on large, and therefore usually long-term, initiatives. Each year, we will jointly evaluate where we stand to see where important next steps can be taken. This also provides an opportunity to incorporate important developments in the field and among the partners as updates to our strategy. To that end, a concise annual plan for 2025 has been prepared. This document, based on the annual plan for 2024, contains the plans for 2025, organized into our six pillars.