ECRIN Scientific partners
The Network is based on the connection of national networks of clinical research centres and clinical trials units.
Click on the country to have a short description of the network:
To know who to contact in your country, please see the contact section
Ministries and Funding agencies Partners of the Project
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, Germany
Health Research Board, Ireland
Spanish Medicines Agency and Medical Devices, Spain
Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spain
Medical Research Council, UK
Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Italy
Associated Partners
Ministère de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche, France
Ministère de la Santé, France
Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, Denmark
Science Foundation of Ireland
Department of Health, UK
Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Finland
Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung, Austria
Vinnova, Sweden
Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia, Spain
Federal Science Policy Office, Belgium
TEKES, Finland
European Forum for Good Clinical Practice (EFGCP), Belgium
Telematikplattform, Germany
Pan European expansion and capacity building
ECRIN plans to set up a clinical research infrastructure that is accessible to all clinical researchers in the EU member and associated states.
ECRIN is open to new partners pending on fulfilment of accession criteria, and help them structuring their national hubs through the capacity building programme.
ECRIN promotes the development of national networks with professional staff implementing high quality standards in the conduct of clinical research, and develops partnership with clinical research infrastructures in other world regions, and with developing countries through its capacity building programme.
Accession criteria
Connection will be open to a co-ordination of national clinical research infrastructures (clinical research centres and clinical trials units), or to a co-ordination of national clinical research network
- Reaching the critical mass and representing the standard in their own country.
- Able to provide support to clinical research projects in any medical field, for any category of clinical research.
- With support from national ministries or funding agencies for their participation in the FP7 ECRIN-PPI project and in the following steps.
Capacity building
A capacity building programme will help strengthen the capacity of national co-ordination to perform sponsor’s tasks in EU-wide clinical research projects and to make the co-ordination of new national networks able to provide the full range of services for investigators and sponsors:
- Capacity to provide services for the conduct of the clinical research project: interaction with ethics committees, interaction with regulatory authorities, adverse event reporting, management of the investigational medicinal product, circulation of blood and tissue samples, monitoring, data management, participant enrolment and investigation.
- Capacity to provide consulting during the preparation of the clinical research project.
- Quality assurance system within the national centres and network reaching the requirements defined by ECRIN.
