Welcome to health-ncp-net

The European Commission organizes the conference DIABESITY - A WORLD-WIDE CHALLENGE,Towards a global initiative on gene-environment interactions in diabetes/obesity in specific populations. The conference will be held on 9-10 February 2012 in Brussels, further information and online registration are available here.  

Health NCPs share information and good practices in the Health NCP Handbook.

This handbook is a comprehensive collection of practical guidelines on how to perform the main duties of a Health NCP efficiently. It describes a number of good practices from more experienced Health NCPs, and aims to achieve a transfer of knowledge between NCPs, thus providing a more suitable service to researchers worlwide. Serving NCPs from new member states and third countries is a priority of HEALTH-NCP-NET, so especial enphasis has been given to aspects of particular pertinence to them.

The European Commission (Research & Innovation DG - Directorate Health) organized an Open Information Day  on FP7 Health research. The event aimed to highlight the novelties in the planning of the 2012 Work Programme and provided guidance on proposal preparation and management. Health research opportunities in Third Countries were presented in a satelite event organised by the project Access4.eu.

HEALTH-NCP-NET presentation

The next Health call is approaching in July 2011! The Partnering Event 2011 was organized prior to the 6^th Health call publication by two project consortia: HEALTH-NCP-NET and Fit for Health. The Partnering Event offered the possibility to present project ideas or company expertise in order to extend cooperation with international partners in the Health sector. There was also a possibility to participate in pre-booked bilateral meetings to establish new contacts and partnerships.

European Commission's DG Research and Innovation, DG Enterprise and Industry and DG Health and Consumers jointly organize a policy-oriented conference "Innovation in Healthcare: From Research to Market" at the Flagey in Brussels. In a small "fair" during the event associations and support structures such as HEALTH-NCP-NET will have the possibility to provide information to the participants.

HealthCompetence.eu is a pan‐European Research Information System making keyinformation accessible on all projects funded by the EC within Health Science in the 6th and 7th Framework Programmes (FP6 & FP7). The information includes the projects’ results in terms of publications, patents and technology offers, and is an open source of information for the stakeholders, such as project coordinators, scientists, technology transfer officers, research administrators, policy makers & programme managers within academia, industry, the EC and other funding agencies.

EU-LAC Info Day      particularly for NCPs, FP7 contacts, embassies, liaison offices of research organisations for raising visibility of Latin America and the Caribbean in Europe . 2011 work programmes of FP7 invite collaborations under the EU-LAC Joint Initiative for Research and Innovation. The event will take place in Madou Auditorium, Place Madou 1, 1210 Saint- Josse-Ten-Noode .  

The  Networking Activity for all Health NCPs and ICPC CPs took place on 16^th June 2009 in Brussels and was organises together with the Commissions Information Day for Health NCPs . It started with a hot debate on experiences with consultants, followed by presentations of research capacities in Belarus, Moldova and Georgia and on the new partnering platform for Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI). The consortium also encouraged participation in the Staff Exchange Programme, in the cartographical mapping of research in ICPC and in the preparation of the NCP Handbook.

HEALTH-NCP-NET chaired a round table in which Health NCPs addressed challenges of researchers to participate in FP7. Health NCPs from France and Israel presented their experiences, which were followed by a questions/answers session. On this occasion HEALTH-NCP-NET collaborated with the SMEs go Health project. The conference is documented at Research Connection 2009   and here you can find the video  

The Health NCP Net is the network of all officially appointed Health National Contact Points (NCPs) and Contact Points in third countries. It provides information, guidance and technical assistance on European funds for health research projects. Our clients are researchers and research institutions willing to participate and be successful in the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). Since most of the NCP host institutions are funded by national governments, the services of the network are offered free of charge. Find here a summary about us.