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Strategy · Verbal & Visual Identity · Communication system

Structuring collaboration in European health.

BCCH — Brussels Centre for Collaboration in Health, brand guidelines cover with the BCCH wordmark on a deep institutional green field

BCCH operates in a complex European health environment where institutions, experts, patients, clinicians and consortium partners need to work together across processes, timelines and responsibilities. The Parlor helped clarify its role and build a coherent communication foundation across verbal identity, visual identity, presentations, LinkedIn and web.

  • ClientBCCH — Brussels Centre for Collaboration in Health
  • SectorEuropean public health · EU HTA
  • ScopeStrategic positioning, verbal & visual identity, communication system
  • Year2026
01Context

A complex role in a complex system.

EU HTA involves many actors, responsibilities and moments of alignment. BCCH's role sits between institutions, experts, stakeholders and practical processes.

The organisation was already reliable, professional and structured. But its communication did not yet fully express the value behind that role. It risked being perceived as administrative, fragmented or difficult to understand from the outside.

The opportunity was to make BCCH's practical value more visible: structured support, practical guidance, expert engagement and continuity across EU HTA work.

  • Stakeholders
  • HTA bodies
  • Institutional partners
  • Consortium members
  • Experts
  • Patients & clinicians
BCCHConnects
  • What it enables
  • Structured support
  • Practical guidance
  • Expert engagement
  • Continuity
  • Alignment

Fig. — BCCH sits between the actors of EU HTA and the practical conditions that let them collaborate effectively.

02Communication challenge

Making support visible without becoming promotional.

BCCH did not need a louder brand. It needed a clearer way to explain its role. The challenge was to make BCCH easier to understand while keeping the tone credible, useful and appropriate for an institutional health context. The communication had to work across expert audiences, mixed stakeholder groups, official presentations, LinkedIn and web.

Perceived risk
Needed shift
Administrative
Collaborative
Invisible
Visible through usefulness
Fragmented
Coherent
Hard to explain
Easy to understand
Process-led
Value-led
03 — Strategic shift

From procedure management to collaboration enablement.

From

BCCH manages procedures.

To

BCCH enables collaboration and quality in EU HTA.

This shift became the foundation for the communication system. Instead of presenting BCCH mainly through internal process, the work reframed its role around the value it creates for the wider ecosystem: helping people, processes and expertise work together in a structured, informed and practical way.

04Verbal identity

A voice built on credibility, clarity and usefulness.

The verbal identity gave BCCH a consistent way to explain its work. It defined the organisation's role, tone, writing principles and vocabulary for communication across institutional and expert contexts.

The tone was built around credible expertise, structure and a constructive human voice. The system avoids inflated claims and focuses on helping stakeholders understand processes, roles and next steps.

Brand essence

Structured collaboration for EU HTA.

Positioning statement

BCCH enables effective collaboration in EU HTA by helping institutions, experts and stakeholders work together through structured support, practical guidance and expert engagement.

Tone principles
  • 01Credible expertise
  • 02Structured
  • 03Constructive & human
Language filter
Use

support, facilitate, enable, guide, organise, align, engage, clarify, prepare, onboard, collaborate

Avoid

leading, transformative, innovative solutions, impactful, empowering, best-in-class, dynamic organisation, seamless excellence

05Visual identity

An institutional identity with editorial structure.

The visual identity was developed to support clarity, consistency and institutional credibility. The system combines a restrained green palette, strong typographic hierarchy, editorial typography and human-centred illustration.

Inter provides structure and legibility. Spectral adds an editorial layer for quotes, introductions and moments of emphasis. The system supports explanation, not decoration.

BCCH
BRUSSELS CENTRE
FOR COLLABORATION
IN HEALTH
Logo · Wordmark
BCCH Black#141313
Deep Green#275024
BCCH Green#62872e
BCCH Grey#f3f2f2
Primary palette
Inter / Spectral
Structured
collaboration.
Inter Bold · Inter Light · Inter Thin
Typography
BCCH illustration style — editorial, human-centred figures in a structured workshop setting using the BCCH green and cream palette
Human-centred illustration
05·bVisual world in application

A visual language of structure, weight and quiet precision.

The system extends beyond logo and palette. Stacked architectural volumes in deep green, cream and yellow ochre give BCCH a recognisable visual signature across posters, infographics, data visualisations and editorial portraits — all anchored in the same restrained, institutional tone.

Portraits sit behind a soft gradient veil — people are part of the work, but never the foreground. The institution comes first.

BCCH poster — three stacked isometric cubes in cream, ochre and deep green with the headline 'Precision in every decision'
Poster — Precision in every decision
BCCH brand visual — clustered architectural columns in deep green, ochre and cream forming a skyline-like composition
Brand visual — architectural composition
BCCH infographic — 'Our edge in excellence' showing three deep green cards with yellow figures (250+, 60+, 25+) representing subscribers, products and years of experience
Infographic — Our edge in excellence
BCCH editorial portrait — a sitter behind a soft gradient veil, signalling that people support the institution rather than appearing as its face
Portrait — soft-gradient editorial treatment
06Communication applications

A system built for the channels BCCH actually uses.

The identity was translated into practical communication tools: a PowerPoint template system, LinkedIn content direction and a one-page website concept. Each format had the same task: make BCCH's role more understandable, more consistent and more useful across stakeholder communication.

01

Presentations.

Stakeholder communication, summaries, process explanation.

02

LinkedIn.

Explainers, carousels, practical role clarification.

03

Website.

One-page positioning tool.

07 — LinkedIn

Explaining BCCH's work in practice.

For LinkedIn, the goal was not visibility for its own sake. The content direction focused on making BCCH's role more concrete. The strongest concepts translate abstract collaboration into practical support areas: consortium operations, expert engagement, information and training, and collaboration facilitation.

Direction

Turning abstract collaboration into practical support areas.

BCCH LinkedIn carousel sequence — 'What expert engagement involves', followed by Contracting, Onboarding, Kick-off meetings, Payments and Day-to-day support cards
Carousel — Expert engagement, six-card sequence
BCCH LinkedIn carousel detail — 'What BCCH supports in practice' explaining meeting organisation, timeline tracking, follow-up and information sharing across the EU
Carousel — What BCCH supports in practice
BCCH LinkedIn post — close-up detail of single carousel card showing the BCCH visual system applied to a post-card composition
Card detail — single post composition
08Presentation system

A repeatable structure for complex information.

The template system gives BCCH consistent slide structures for introductions, summaries, process explanation, stakeholder communication and data-led content. The purpose was not decorative — it was to give BCCH a structured way to present complex information across stakeholder audiences.

BCCHEU HTA · 2026
BCCH · EU HTA · 2026
Structured collaboration for EU HTA.
A briefing on practical support areas
Slide 01Title
BCCHEU HTA · 2026
Executive summary
Four practical support areas across EU HTA.
  • Consortium operations
  • Expert engagement
  • Information & training
  • Collaboration facilitation
Slide 02Executive summary
BCCHEU HTA · 2026
Stakeholder ecosystem
EU institutionsHTA bodiesMember statesPatients & cliniciansIndustryAcademiaBCCH
Slide 03Stakeholder ecosystem
BCCHEU HTA · 2026
Process · timeline
01
Scoping
02
Onboarding
03
Engagement
04
Follow-up
Slide 04Process / timeline
BCCHEU HTA · 2026
BCCH enables collaboration and quality in EU HTA.
Closing message · Q&A
Slide 05Key message
09Website direction

A one-page structure for understanding BCCH quickly.

The website concept turns BCCH's positioning into a clear digital narrative. Rather than creating a heavy institutional website, the one-page structure helps visitors quickly understand what BCCH does, why it matters and how it supports collaboration in EU HTA.

The site works as a concise positioning tool: structured, readable and focused on the practical role BCCH plays in supporting collaboration.

bcch.theparlorlabs.com
BCCH one-page website — full scroll: hero, four core areas of practical support, why it matters, expert engagement, working method, people & expertise and contact
One-page positioning site — bcch.theparlorlabs.comScroll inside the frame ↓
  • 01Clear role introduction
  • 02Practical support areas
  • 03Expert engagement explained
  • 04Structured one-page navigation
  • 05Contact & institutional credibility
10 — Outcome

A clearer foundation for institutional communication.

The work created a more coherent foundation for BCCH's communication across key touchpoints. It clarified the organisation's role, aligned its language, gave structure to the visual identity, and translated the system into practical tools for presentations, LinkedIn and web.

BCCH can now communicate with more consistency and clarity — not as a louder brand, but as a more understandable collaboration body within EU HTA.

01Verbal identity.
02Visual identity.
03LinkedIn.
04Presentation.
05Website.
A communication system, not a louder brand

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