Media coverage during the SRA launch conference in Brussels 3 april resulted in the articles in the links below.
Author: Anna Sundin
SRA Launch Conference concluded
The launch conference for the Strategic Research Agenda was held on April 3 in Brussels. Representation from funding agencies from every continent in addition to researchers and industry representatives made it a highly interesting day. We would like to thank all speakers and participants for contributing to a successful launch!
Press release: SRA conference, April 3 in Brussels. PDF download here.
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Antibiotic Resistance: 10 questions and answers
Source: Forskning.se
Save lives – Clean your hands global campaign. More information here
SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands. WHO global campaign on May 5th. The focus of the 2014 call is the role of hand hygiene in reducing the spread of AMR. Among the activities, WHO is inviting health-care facilities to participate in two global surveys: http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/global-surveys/en/
Call closed
The InnovaResistance call for pre-proposals is now closed. Full proposal invitations will be communicated in late May.
New Steering Committee composition
The JPIAMR Steering Committe members for the forthcoming two years are: Mats Ulfendahl (Swe), Ghada Zoubiane (UK), Martin Steinbakk (Nor), Bülent Genç (Ger), Lene Cividanes (Den), and Martijntje Bakker (NL).
We thank Carlos Segovia, Laurent Gutmann, Peter Taylor and Waleria Hryniewicz for their Steering Committee work and welcome the new members to two exciting and productive years!
Estonia joins JPIAMR as observer
VINNOVA joins call for Sweden
VINNOVA – Sweden’s Innovation Agency, has joined the InnovaResistance call, making €1.1 million available to Swedish industrial partners. Sweden is already represented in this call by the Swedish Research Council which contributes up to €3 million to Swedish academic partners.
Report on New Business Models for Sustainable Antibiotics
Antibiotics are powerful drugs that prevent many deaths each year. Antibiotics are a precious global resource that must be managed on a sustainable ecological basis, akin to fisheries. But today, antibiotics are either managed in a haphazard fashion or mismanaged. An important task is to fix the broken economic Incentives.
Source: Chatam House