Project description
Building Europe’s pandemic preparedness network
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed vulnerabilities in Europe’s ability to respond swiftly to emerging health crises. Without robust systems in place, societies face severe challenges in accessing effective treatments and diagnostics during outbreaks. The need for proactive, coordinated approaches to pandemic preparedness has never been clearer. Strengthening networks of experts, laboratories, and civil society is essential to ensure readiness for future threats. Addressing this challenge, the EU-funded PROACT EU-Response project will establish a comprehensive European network for clinical trials in hospital settings. Its efforts will improve health outcomes, reduce societal costs, and empower communities through enhanced knowledge and preparedness.
Objective
Recent pandemics showed Europe how serious health threats can be to society. Proactive approaches are needed to ensure that medical countermeasures are available during pandemics. PROACT EU-Response’s overarching objective is to prepare Europe for future pandemics by strengthening upon existing networks of experts and civil society focused on clinical therapeutic platform trials within hospital inpatient settings across Europe. In case of an outbreak, this network will provide capacity to pivot rapidly to implement large, multi-country platform trials studying therapeutics and diagnostic-tool performance. Underpinned by strong community involvement and further strengthened by the inclusion of social and implementation scientists, PROACT EU-Response centres on six objectives: expand a solid network of clinical centres across Europe that will implement a clinical trial assessing a syndromic approach for respiratory viral infections; strengthen a laboratory network to identify pathogens and biomarkers of disease monitoring for routine surveillance; support a network of methodologists and trialists who will ensure the trials’ logistical and methodological aspects; initiate a network of professionals to work on preparedness tools to ensure a smooth pivot from inter-pandemic to the pandemic period in case of an outbreak; build a network of social science researchers who will provide nuanced understanding of the social contexts; and establish a community group to work on activities that will empower patients and citizens in Europe regarding their own health and educate them about science and health issues. By bringing together scientists, social science researchers, and civil society members, PROACT EU-Response will benefit the entire European population and beyond through decreased mortality and morbidity associated with emerging diseases, lower societal economic costs of morbidity, strengthened research and innovation expertise, human capacities, and know-how for combatting communicable diseases.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/euroscivoc.
- social sciencessociologydemographymortality
- medical and health scienceshealth sciencespublic healthepidemiologypandemics
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75654 Paris
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Participants (24)
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75006 Paris
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0450 Oslo
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28046 MADRID
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Legal entity other than a subcontractor which is affiliated or legally linked to a participant. The entity carries out work under the conditions laid down in the Grant Agreement, supplies goods or provides services for the action, but did not sign the Grant Agreement. A third party abides by the rules applicable to its related participant under the Grant Agreement with regard to eligibility of costs and control of expenditure.
28046 Madrid
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1050 Bruxelles / Brussel
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37129 Verona
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WC1E 6BT London
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4 Dublin
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75014 Paris
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69002 Lyon
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69280 Marcy-l'Etoile
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75012 Paris
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BRUSSELS Brussels / Bruxelles
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86000 POITIERS
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75005 PARIS
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78190 TRAPPES
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H91 Galway
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75015 PARIS
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75794 Paris
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2000 Antwerpen
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LA1 4YW Lancaster
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BS8 1QU Bristol
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1090 Wien
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3526 KV Utrecht
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Partners (1)
Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
4051 Basel
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