Stella Kyriakides was immediately appointed as the new Commissioner for Health and Food Safety (taking over from Vytenis Andriukaitis) when Ursula von der Leyen took office as European Commission President on 1 December. President von der Leyen sent a...

The expansion of the current European Reference Networks (ERNs) is fully underway through the addition of Affiliated Partners and the recent call for new full members. Four of the Affiliated Partners are National Coordination Hubs (based in Malta, Luxembourg,...

On 19 November 2019 an information session discussed the ‘Health Cluster’ of Horizon Europe – the European Commission’s new research and innovation funding programme from 2021-2027. Michelle Battye (eUROGEN Centre Manager) was invited to participate to give a presentation...

The ERN Coordinators Group (ERN CG) Meeting was held in Brussels on 14-15 November 2019 and eUROGEN was represented by Prof Wout Feitz (eUROGEN Coordinator) and Michelle Battye (eUROGEN Centre Manager). The headline news was the new call for...

At the close of the call on 30 November, the European Commission announced that 841 new clinical units in hospitals across Europe had requested to become members of the existing 24 ERNs. 31 of these are applicants to eUROGEN....

The European Commission has launched the first call for new healthcare providers (HCPs) to join the existing 24 European Reference Networks (ERNs) as full members, with a deadline of 30 November 2019. Applicants can find all the relevant information...

In the coming weeks, the European Commission will launch the first call for new healthcare providers (HCPs) to join the existing 24 European Reference Networks (ERNs) as full members.  Initial details are on the EC’s website and full details of...