ERN eUROGEN has successfully passed a Project Review of its current four-year Direct Operational Grant (2023-2027), which supports the Network’s coordination, management, and operational activities. The review covered the first two years of the grant, from October 2023 to December 2025, and was based on the interim report and supporting deliverables submitted by the ERN, followed by a meeting between the independent expert, our HaDEA project officer, and the ERN eUROGEN Coordination Team.
The European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HADEA) assessed ERN eUROGEN’s implementation as satisfactory, recognising strong and measurable progress across all eight of the Network’s Specific Objectives.
The review highlighted robust governance and coordination, including a well-managed leadership transition following the former Network Coordinator’s retirement.
Dissemination performance was a particular strength, with more than 90 website news items published over two years, 24 newsletters issued, subscriber growth of around 57%, 16 peer-reviewed publications, and participation in 32 international conferences with 51 ERN-related presentations.
The report also recognised substantial growth in the ERN eUROGEN Registry, with participating healthcare providers rising from 22 to 40 and patient numbers growing from 576 to 1,597, alongside continued work on governance structures, follow-up data collection and FAIRification.
In training and education, the Network delivered 63 CME-accredited webinars together with annual specialist training courses and a structured surgical training collaboration with ERNICA.
The Network completed two major European clinical practice guidelines and one clinical decision support tool during the period, with further guidelines and tools well advanced.
The review also noted continued engagement with CPMS through the transition to CPMS 2.0, and a comprehensive programme of cooperation with Ukrainian healthcare professionals and authorities.
The reviewers recommended continued focus on CPMS uptake following the CPMS 2.0 transition, further registry recruitment, timely completion of remaining guidelines and decision support tools, and maintaining the Network’s strong dissemination activity.
We are grateful to everyone across the Network whose work contributed to this result, and we look forward to building on it in the second half of the grant period.
