Category: News and press

Case study on JPIAMR in ERA-LEARN 2020 annual summary report

Anna SundinNews and press

The ERA-LEARN 2020 annual report 2018 on good practices in the implementation of JPIs highlights JPIAMR for its on the increasing relevance of the international dimension of Joint Programming.

The report is based on two case studies: JPIAMR’s Approach to Policy Coordination and A healthy diet for a healthy life: a structured approach for international outreach for P2Ps.

The case study on JPIAMR showcases a possible approach to fulfilling a specific function as a policy-coordinating instrument to serve as inspiration to other JPIs.

Both case studies show, that the focus of interest for JPIs increasingly shifts towards their impact on the European and global policy agenda and their specific role in the governance and orientation of structuring research and innovation in Europe.

The ERA-LEARN 2020 annual summary report 2018, which also summarises the results of the previous reports, can be downloaded here.

Open consultation: JPIAMR is updating the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA)

Anders BjersNews and press

Update of the JPIAMR Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda 2018

The JPIAMR recognises that innovation is critically important in the field of AMR, as there is a strong need of new therapeutics, diagnostics, and innovative infection prevention and intervention measures. The JPIAMR is therefore currently refreshing its JPIAMR Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) to take account of recent research findings and to extend the JPIAMR SRA into a Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA).

The research objectives and research priorities of the JPIAMR SRIA are now open for public consultation. We welcome feedback on the research topics from the AMR community from the 9th of July to the 15th of September (12.00 CET).

For more information and instructions for providing feedback, please click here.

AMR Environment research priorities workshop publication

Anna SundinNews and press

Researchers who participated in the JPIAMR workshop on environment in September 2017 have now published a journal article of findings from the workshop. The article, Critical knowledge gaps and research needs related to the environmental dimensions of antibiotic resistance, was published in Environment International.

Read more about the JPIAMR workshop on Environmental Dimensions of AMR here.

Fourth JPIAMR Network Call Workshop – report and interviews

Anders BjersNews and press

In March researchers gathered in Frankfurt am Main in a final workshop, Maximising Existing and Future Research Efforts and Resource Alignment to Combat AMR, to share some of their activities and findings from research that was supported by funding within the JPIAMR call for networks. Here we present the full workshop report and filmed interviews with some of the funded networks.

The fourth JPIAMR call for networks closed on June 6, 2016. Participating countries in the network call were JPIAMR members: France, Canada, Belgium Spain, the United Kingdom, Germany, Norway, Sweden, and the Netherlands. The coordinators from the countries participating in the call created networks of researchers from many different countries and fields of research.

Major Conclusions

  • The Network funding mechanism facilitated the formation of successful networks in all strategic JPIAMR areas.
  • JPIAMR Network funding allowed Networks to carry out a broad range of activities with different outcomes, including white papers/position papers, conferences/workshops, systematic reviews, Standard Operating Procedures, online courses, guidance documents and journal articles, amongst others.

JPIAMR has the One Health approach as an integral part of the Strategic Research Agenda. This is one of the key strengths of JPIAMR and it is reflected in the diversity of the network topics.

The full workshop report can be downloaded here.

About the participating networks

The assembled networks had emphasis on needs at a National and International level to address AMR, within these areas:

  • Guidelines on use (Human & Veterinary) – Affordable stewardship
  • Surveillance in primary care
  • New anti-infective/ New adjuvant therapies / Alternative approaches
  • Evaluation of risk for generation of resistance in human setting
  • Rapid diagnostic tests
  • Role of environmental factors
  • Infrastructures/Biobanks available relevant to infection and AMR

The networks spanned all of the JPIAMR pillars and were mostly multidisciplinary (spanning at least two pillars). A range of sizes of the networks were represented at the workshop.

Interviews with coordinators of some funded JPIAMR Networks

Research Network: Flies (Diptera: Muscidae) and the Spread of Antimicrobial Resistant Bacteria

Research Network: INFACT – AMR and Intensive Care Units

Research Network: Rapid Diagnostics

Research Network: AMR Stewardship in Hospitals – What Works?

Building the Foundation of the JPIAMR VRI – The call is now open!

Anna SundinNews and press

JPIAMR recognises a need to reinforce alignment of AMR research; to address this need the JPIAMR will establish a Virtual Research Institute in AMR (“the JPIAMR-VRI”), a Global Network connecting research performing organisations including institutes, centres, and infrastructures to each other across sectorial and geographic boundaries in a larger global network.

The intent of the JPIAMR-VRI Network Call is to help develop a platform that will identify research community needs in AMR and develop ideas to form the foundation of the JPIAMR-VRI. The funded Network Working Groups are expected to generate catalytic ideas and strategic plans to help JPIAMR bring the JPIAMR-VRI to life!

Up to 21 Networks will be funded with up to 50,000 € each to connect experts from research performing organisations, institutes, centres and infrastructures and establish expertise clusters in the AMR community. Note that JPIAMR Network calls do not fund research projects.

More information on the 8th call – JPIAMR-VRI Network Call 2018, can be found at the call webpage: utveckling.jpiamr.eu/8thcall

Download 8th Call folder

Katherine Payne new member of the Scientific Advisory Board

Anna SundinNews and press

We are pleased to announce that Katherine Payne, Professor of Health Economics, The University of Manchester, has been elected as new member of the JPIAMR Scientific Advisory Board.

Professor Katherine Payne was awarded a personal chair in health economics at The University of Manchester in August 2010. Katherine is also a registered pharmacist and was awarded the status of Fellow of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society in 2016. She is now based within the Manchester Centre for Health Economics at The University of Manchester. She holds honorary positions with: the School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham; PHG Foundation, Cambridge; Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; and Nowgen, Manchester. Katherine has an interest in the economics of genomic technologies and services and the application to precision medicine. Katherine has an interest in the use of economic evidence to inform decision-making in practice and was a member of a NICE Technology Appraisal Committee between October 2003 and 2012. Katherine has been a member of national funding review panels for projects on the economics of personalised medicine for Canada, UK, The Netherlands, France and Luxembourg. Katherine also has an established interest in communicating the methods and application of economic evaluation to healthcare professionals, including pharmacists, and members of the public.

Working to Improve Surveillance – The call is now open!

Anna SundinNews and press

The overarching goal of JPIAMR research on Surveillance is to standardise, improve and extend surveillance systems on antibiotic use and on AMR in humans, animals, food, and the larger environment. In the network call that opens today, JPIAMR will support leading scientists and experts in the field of AMR surveillance to establish networks to enhance resource alignment and maximise existing and future efforts to combat AMR.

Surveillance networks are essential to monitor the threat of AMR and guide public health policy. In order to understand antibiotic resistance, we must understand whether resistance genes are highly mobile and whether dominant pathogenic clones spread resistance globally. However, countries have different levels and methods of surveillance and many lack national reporting systems leading to major gaps in AMR surveillance and an urgent need to strengthen collaboration on global AMR surveillance.

In partnership with ten member countries; Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, JPIAMR is launching the seventh joint call for transnational networks. The total budget of the call is approximately € 1.1 million.

Applicants are invited to form JPIAMR networks that are expected to provide white papers, prospective views, guidelines and/or best practice/roadmap/systematic reviews and frameworks to identify key questions to be addressed or identify potential solutions to overcome barriers for AMR surveillance and the implementation of surveillance research studies.

In this network call up to 21 networks will be funded with up to € 50 000 each to maximise existing and future efforts to combat AMR by pushing forward new ideas in AMR surveillance. Note that JPIAMR networks calls do not fund research projects.

More information on the 7th call – 2018 Network Call on Surveillance, can be found at the call webpage: utveckling.jpiamr.eu/7thcall/

Download the 7th call folder.

Announcement 7th Call: Working to Improve Surveillance

Anders BjersNews and press

Surveillance networks are essential to monitor the threat of AMR and guide public health policy. The JPIAMR call for networks aims to create networks to enhance resource alignment and efforts in the field of AMR surveillance.

In partnership with ten member countries; Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, JPIAMR is launching the seventh joint call for transnational networks. The total budget of the call is approximately € 1.1 million.

This network call “Working to Improve Surveillance” aims to create networks to enhance resource alignment and efforts in the field of AMR surveillance. Surveillance is a prerequisite for assessing the success of AMR stewardship measures, infection prevention and control, and the effectiveness of new therapeutic and diagnostic options. The overarching goal of JPIAMR research on surveillance is to standardise, improve and extend surveillance systems on antibiotic use and on AMR in humans, animals, food, and the larger environment.

In this network call up to 21 networks will be funded with up to € 50 000 each to maximise existing and future efforts to combat AMR by pushing forward new ideas in AMR surveillance. Note that JPIAMR networks calls do not fund research projects.

Call procedure

The Network Call on Surveillance 2018 has a one-step procedure. The final funding decision will be announced in September / October 2018.

Deadline

The proposal submission deadline is June 12th, 2018, (14.00h CET).

The Network Call Secretariat and National Points of Contact

The Network Call on Surveillance is hosted by the Swedish Research Council. All questions about the call should be sent to: call7.jpiamr@vr.se

To download Surveillance Network Call folder, please click on: Folder_Working to Improve Surveillance

Download the press release in here: Working to Improve Surveillance

More detailed information about the call is here: JPIAMR 2018 Network Call on Surveillance

About: The Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance, JPIAMR, coordinates national programmes, funding and supports collaborative action for filling knowledge gaps on AMR with a one health approach. Today, 27 nations, from four continents, are members of JPIAMR. More than 300 research groups have received funding from JPIAMR. Since its launch in 2011 JPIAMR has coordinated total budget of € 65 million. The JPIAMR Secretariat is hosted by the Swedish Research Council.

Pre-announcement: 8th Call – Building the Foundation of the JPIAMR VRI

Anna SundinNews and press

JPIAMR recognises a need to reinforce alignment of AMR research. To promote this, the JPIAMR will establish a Virtual Research Institute in AMR – a global network connecting research performing organisations, including institutes, centres, and infrastructures.

In partnership with ten member countries; Canada, Egypt, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, JPIAMR is launching the 8th joint call for transnational Networks. The total budget of the call is approximately 1.1 million Euro. This Network Call “Building the Foundation of the JPIAMR Virtual Research Institute” aims to identify research community needs and develop ideas to form the foundation for the JPIAMR-VRI. Networks of motivated groups should develop catalytic ideas and strategic plans to help bring the JPIAMR-VRI to life!

Up to 22 Networks will be funded with up to €50 000 each coordinator to connect experts from research performing organisations and establish expertise clusters in the AMR community. The formation of larger, multi-coordinator Networks is possible according to national rules. This is an ERA-NET JPI-EC-AMR additional activity. Note that JPIAMR Network calls do not fund research projects.

Call procedure

The JPIAMR-VRI Network Call has a one-step procedure. The final funding decision will be announced in October / November 2018.

Deadline

The proposal submission deadline is July 4th, 2018, (17.00 CET).

JPIAMR-VRI Network Call Secretariat and National Points of Contact

The JPIAMR-VRI Network Call Secretariat is hosted by the Italian Ministry of Health, It-MoH.
All questions on the pre-announcement should be sent to: secretariat.jpiamr@vr.se

For more detailed information on the JPIAMR-VRI, please see here.

To download PIAMR-VRI Network Call folder, please click here.

Download the press release in English here: Press Release_JPIAMR-VRI

Download the press release in French here: JPIAMR-IRV_Press Release_FRENCH

More detailed information to be found here: JPIAMR 2018 Network Call: Building the foundation of the JPIAMR-VRI

About

The Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance, JPIAMR, coordinates national programmes, funding and supports collaborative action for filling knowledge gaps on AMR with a one health approach. Today,  27 nations, from four continents, are members of JPIAMR. More than 300 research groups have received funding from JPIAMR. Since its launch in 2011 JPIAMR has coordinated total budget of 65 million Euros. The JPIAMR Secretariat is hosted by the Swedish Research Council.