EUPATI Open Classroom

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Welcome to EUPATI Open Classroom!

EUPATI is the European Patients' Academy on Therapeutic Innovation. It's a unique training provider specialized in patient education that offers different training courses and education materials.

Explore Open Classroom's Learning Catalogue with self-paced online courses in medicines research and development. You can explore the courses and navigate the website as a Guest (no account needed) or you can become an official Learner (by registering and creating an account).

EUPATI is committed to changing the face of patient engagement through patient education.

Welcome to EUPATI Open Classroom!

EUPATI Open Classroom is the brand-new e-learning platform developed by EUPATI.

It features a flexible and on-demand learning catalogue and allow patients, patient representatives and other stakeholders from anywhere in the world to take courses in medicines research and development.

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How does EUPATI Open Classroom work?

Easy! You can explore the courses and navigate the website as a Guest (no account needed) or you can become an official Learner (by registering and creating an account).

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What is EUPATI?

EUPATI is the European Patients' Academy on Therapeutic Innovation. It's a unique training provider specialized in patient education that offers different training courses and education materials.

EUPATI is committed to changing the face of patient engagement through patient education.

Learn more!

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What kind of courses does the platform offer?

Take a look at the Learning Catalogue Overview and explore the available courses on medicines research and development. Also find out more details about how the platform works.

Ready to start learning?

Participants from anywhere in the world can enrol to EUPATI Open Classroom. Learners can take the courses online on-demand at their own pace and preferred order.

As a guest you can navigate and explore the platform but as register user you will have access to more functionalities and also keep track on your learning pathway.

What our learners say?

This course has been crucial to my advocacy work. It has strengthened my voice as a patient advocate so that I can meaningfully engage with various stakeholders. - Rachel Lynch, Ireland

‘(..) this course was developed by the patients and for the patients, with the professional assistance from the academia, industry and regulators. This is a great example of patient centricity in action.’ - Sarunas Narbutas, Lithuania

‘Patient advocates need all the knowledge and support they can get. We all work in different environments in our countries and we face different challenges and we can all learn from each other on how to do a better job.’ - Vesna Aleksovska, Republic of North Macedonia

EUPATI Patient Expert Training Programme

The EUPATI Patient Expert Training Programme is a training programme about the medicines’ development process. It covers the entire lifecycle of medicines research and development (R&D) (see roadmap here), from design and execution of clinical trials to regulatory processes and Health Technology Assessment (HTA). In addition to detailed information on each step of the process, the training also describes how patients can be involved at each stage.

The programme is a blended training in which participants take 6 online modules (containing 27 courses in total) and attend 2 face-to-face events (1 virtual and 1 in-person). Completing the full programme usually takes 12-14 months.

Registration deadline for 2022-23 Programme is November 1, 2022. Please read the full Patient Expert Training Programme Guidelines 2022-2023 before you register to the programme.

Patient Engagement Roadmap

To help you structure your learning pathway, we strongly recommend to check the Patient Engagement Roadmap first. It gives an overview on how the courses of the EUPATI Open Classroom can be reflected and used in practical terms and according to the experience.

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EUPATI Connect

EUPATIConnect is a place where both EUPATI Patient Experts and researchers can connect, to create mutually beneficial opportunities and to enhance the future of patient engagement.

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EUPATI National Platforms

EUPATI National Platforms bring patient, academic and industry partners together to discuss patient education and patient involvement in medicines research and development (R&D). Working together, National Platforms raise awareness about the important role of patients, and members identify challenges and opportunities for joint action.

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Medical Subject Headings

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) is an online controlled vocabulary that lists words, groups of synonyms and related concepts, for the purpose of indexing journal articles and books in the life sciences that facilitates searching.

It was created and updated by the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), it permits searching at various levels of specificity and allows retrieval of documents in different languages. MeSH is also used by ClinicalTrials.gov registry to classify which diseases are studied by trials registered in ClinicalTrials.gov.

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