Fostering a culture of translation in Europe and beyond has been a cornerstone of EATRIS’ mission. EATRIS’ strategic objectives will particularly accelerate the professional development of future innovation leaders by providing academic researchers with the essential translational skills required for patient-centered, high quality and reproducible research, supporting scientific literacy of the general public through patient education, as well as training the staff members of the EATRIS national nodes through targeted capacity-building programmes, and staff exchanges.
Through the 4-year H2020 flagship project EATRIS-Plus significant efforts were made to consolidate EATRIS training offering under the TransMed Academy umbrella and to provide researchers, patient experts, nodes staff and innovation managers with various training opportunities. Within EATRIS-Plus project we trained over 600 researchers and staff by organising 3 Summer Schools in Personalised Medicine, 2 Academia-Industry Collaboration workshops, 10 National Node Capacity Building Workshops, a number of webinars and a popular Staff Exchange Programme with 25 visitors. In addition, the online learning environment TransMed Academy received a significant upgrade and now houses more resources than ever to ensure that there are offerings for and from all our key stakeholders are visible.
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Staff exchanges paving way to long-term collaborations
Staff Exchanges are an important mechanism of exchanging best practice and facilitating collaborations amongst EATRIS member institutions, therefore helping to avoid duplication and save research cost.
Patient advocate attending EATRIS-Plus Summer School in Personalised Medicine
EATRIS is highly committed to normalising patient engagement in research practices. We regularly involve Patient Advocates as speakers or trainees in our trainings and other events ensuring that the patient perspective is represented and heard, and a bridge between researchers and patients is strong.
Academia industry collaboration workshop bringing together academics and innovation managers across Europe
Interdisciplinary training workshops allow to foster networking and to promote future collaborations amongst researchers, technology transfer offices, and SMEs across Europe.
Early-career researchers benefit from ATMPs Development knowledge combined with career support
Support early-career biomedical researchers in developing scientific knowledge, transversal skills and competences to meet the key challenge areas existing in the ATMP development cycle matches the need of the ecosystem by addressing the need for more skilled workforce in the cell and gene therapy development sector.
TMex flagship training programme for translational scientists
The Translational medicine explained course (TMEX) is a flagship EATRIS course, which introduces participants to the whole translational process. Taking each step in turn, the essential elements are introduced and reviewed, alongside learning about the diverse roles required to enable the whole process. Delivered as a mixture of seminar style session and hands-on workshops, participants will get opportunities to put their learning into practice supported by experts.
