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id="content" class="hfeed"><div class="post-9 page type-page status-publish hentry entry"><h1 class="entry-title">The EFORT Foundation History</h1> <div class="entry-content"><p>“The idea to establish EFORT Foundation came up for the first time at the beginning of 2008”, says Karl-Göran Thorngren, chair and initiator of this non-profit organisation. 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