CAPITAL (CAre for PITuitary Adenoma Leiden) organizes on June 8th and June 9th a multidisciplinary workshop for pituitary tumor specialists.
Symposium: “Disorders of Sex Development”
The 6th International DSD symposium will take place in Copenhagen on June 29th – July 1st 2017. This event has been awarded up to 15 credits by EAC-CME.
The outline programme with confirmed invited speakers is available on the symposium website.
Information and links on “Cross-border Healthcare”
Some information and links on “Cross-border Healthcare” added to the Endo-ERN website.
Official start of ERN’s in Vilnius, Lithuania
On March 9th 2017, all ERNs have officially been launched by the European Commission. This great celebration was organized by the ERN team of the European Commission DG SANTE.
On March 10th, Endo-ERN held its Steering Committee / Kick-off meeting to discuss our governance, multi-annual action plan and action plan for YEAR 1 with chairs of the Main Thematic Groups and Work Packages and Patient representatives. We thank all attendees for their participation and enthusiastic involvement.
Endo-ERN is very proud that we can now officially start working on our planned projects in order [...]
First General Assembly
The first annual meeting will be held in Leiden, The Netherlands on March 27th, with the purpose first to inform and update all members and other stakeholders on the mission, structure, and governance of Endo-ERN, and subsequently to approve the current application by the members via voting in order to be officially operational, and finally to attain contribution of each Reference Center (RC) to the pre-defined deliverables, as specified in the grant application.
3rd European Reference Networks Conference
The European Commission organizes the 3rd European Reference Networks Conference in Vilnius on March, 9–10th 2017. This event will be the official launch and start of the first labeled European Reference Networks (see here the list of approved ERNs).
The conference (live webstream will be available here) on 9th will tackle topics such as:
Coordination, management & governance of ERNs; ERN IT platform as core element for eHealth, telemedicine, sharing of expertise in complex clinical cases; EU policies and support to ENRs (research, registry platform, rare diseases policy…); ERN and national healthcare systems; The [...]3rd Health Programme WP 2017
The European Commission (DG Santé) has adopted on January 26th the Work Programme 2017 under the 3rd Health Programme. This WP includes funding for supporting European Reference Networks (ERNs) with a total budget of 4.600.000 Euros (maximum 200.000 euros per ERN for coordination, management and non-clinical activities, through a Specific Grant Agreement for 2018, under a Framework Partnership Agreement signed with ERNs).
EU Call for Rare Disease Registries
The European Commission has published a Call for proposals for Projects on Rare Disease Registries for approved ERNs on December, 21st.
AimTo increase knowledge on rare diseases and develop clinical research
EligibilityOnly approved ERNs are eligible to be co-funded. Are eligible applicant organisations which are members of official ERNs. The applicants (coordinator of the proposal and co-applicants) must be legally established organisations, public authorities, public sector bodies, in particular research and health institutions, universities and higher education establishments.
