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Help us fundraise for Camurati-Engelmann’s Disease

With your friends and colleagues form a team, join the ECTS Charity Beach Volley and help us fundraising for Camurati-Engelmann’s Disease

This is a Fundraising Event organized by the ECTS and ECTS Academy to bring together members, corporate supporters, friends and members.

Last year, thanks to your support, we raised more than 1,700€ for Hypophosphatasie Deutschland.  Let’s team up again to raise awareness of rare bone diseases and fundraise for Camurati-Engelmann’s Disease.

More information and registration: https://ectsoc.org/events/2018fundraising/

Position paper on the 9th Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (FP9)

BioMed Alliance and its 28 members, including ECTS, has published its position paper on the upcoming 9th Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (FP9).

  • Increased funding for health research under FP9
  • Structural and balanced EU funding for basic, clinical and translational research
  • Creation of a European Council for Health Research, that will support biomedical and clinical research in Europe

The position paper will be promoted through a number of media and advocacy activities with Members of the European Parliament, EU Commission and EU Council.  An interesting opinion article was recently published in  Science Business.

As next steps, the European Commission is preparing its proposal for the next EU R&I Framework Programme which is expected mid-2018. The Commission is constantly engaging with all interested parties to exchange experiences and ideas on how to best stimulate innovation.  The BioMed Alliance Board of Directors will respond to this consultation.

Contact ECTS Staff for more information.

ECTS Streamlines its committee structure for more focused operations

During our 2017  Annual Meeting in Salzburg, ECTS Past President Prof Claus-C. Glüer announced the new strategic plan and increase of activities outside the ECTS Congress.

Action Groups have been created within the Committee communities and will work towards supporting the ECTS 2017-2019 Strategic Plan and drive the activities.

You can find more information on activities and Action Group composition in the ECTS Website.  If you are interested in taking part in one of these activities, please contact ECTS staff at roberta.mugnai@ectsoc.org.

ECTS Committee Structure 2018_visual

ECTS joins Alliance for BioMedical Research in Europe

The European Calcified Tissue Society is pleased to announce that we have become a member of the Alliance for BioMedical Research in Europe. The BioMed Alliance is  the result of a unique initiative of leading European medical societies which together include and unite more than 400,000 researchers and health professionals.  The BioMed Alliance was created in 2010 to gather strength across different disciplines and areas in biomedical and health research at European level.

Thanks to this, ECTS offers its members the opportunity to voice  and participate in European Policy actions that can directly impact your research work.  Upcoming activities include:

  • Participate in the European Commission consultation on the EU R&I Framework Programme which is expected mid-2018
  • Support the BioMed Alliance Position Paper on the ninth Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (FP9)
  • Foster Medical Educational activities
  • Support Academic Research

Are you interested to learn more about what BioMed Alliance can offer to its members and willing to participate in one of their Working Groups?  Just contact ECTS at roberta.mugnai@ectsoc.org.