About
European Patients’ Academy on Therapeutic Innovation
What is EUPATI? The European Patients’ Academy on Therapeutic Innovation (EUPATI) is a multi-stakeholder public-private partnership originally launched by the IMI-EUPATI project (2012-2017) and hosted by the European Patients’ Forum (EPF) from 2017 to 2020.
What is our mission? EUPATI is committed to increasing the capacity and capability of patients and patient representatives to understand and meaningfully contribute to medicines research and development (R&D), and to improve the availability of medical information for patients and other stakeholders.
How are we achieving it? EUPATI is providing training for patients and patient representatives from all disease areas on the end-to-end process of medicines research and development – via the Open Classroom and the online Toolbox.
Quality assurance of EUPATI’s educational content: EUPATI stands for quality, ensuring transparency, accessibility and factual accuracy. All educational content is developed with a consistent multi-stakeholder approach. The expertise and insights from al EUPATI partners, network members and external advisors are supported by qualitative and quantitative research as well as a systematic literature review conducted by EUPATI prior to content production. EUPATI has also established an independent Editorial Board.
Please, find a list of individuals who have contributed to the development and revision of the EUPATI Open Classroom online courses.
Funding: EUPATI is co-financed by in-cash contribution from industry partners and in-kind contribution from public partners, as well as fee-based services to ensure continuous education and reliable information for patients, patient representatives and the wider public. In addition, EUPATI receives funding in the form of projects/grants supported by e.g., IMI, EIT Health and EFPIA. EUPATI is also supported by individual donations.
Other activities: EUPATI today is active in 24 countries via its National Platforms (ENPs), which mirror the EUPATI structure and activities at the national level. EUPATI also provides training for pharmaceutical/MedTech companies and academic research institutions about patient engagement. Additionally, EUPATI brings forth opportunities for patient experts and partners to work together, via it’s matchmaking tool, EUPATI Connect.
For more information, please visit EUPATI’s:
Webpage for comprehensive information about EUPATI, including National Platform information, news and activities, training portfolio and else.
Toolbox for an online library on the A-Z of medicines research and development (R&D) and patient engagement. It provides access to well-structured, comprehensive, scientifically reliable, and user-friendly educational materials for patients on a variety of topics in these areas.
Collaborate for Opportunities to collaborate with EUPATI such as matchmaking, speaking, training, initiatives, volunteering and partnership.
EUPATI Open Classroom
Brief history: It all started with the EUPATI Patient Expert Training Programme which was launched in 2015 and has to date trained more than 200 Patient Experts (EUPATI Fellows) from all over Europe and beyond. The Programme offered expert-level training in the process of medicines research and development (R&D) and was originally a 14-month programme open only to a limited number of individuals, selected via an application procedure.
Partners
Today: The Open Classroom is designed for patients, patient representatives – but also accessible to other stakeholders such as people working in patient engagement activities in the private and public sectors.
Contact us via email: info@eupati.eu
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