Policy initiatives


Euro-BioImaging plays an active role on the European stage, and is heavily invested in direct EU stakeholder engagement, and collaborations on the European level, including via the ERIC Forum and other initiatives. ERIC Forum is the bottom-up organisation of all currently existing 30 ERICs, which support each other in their implementation as well as operation. Via the Forum ERICs speak with one voice to their major stakeholders at the European level (including the European Commission, ESFRI, Member States) and therefore, the ERIC Forum is one of the leading science policy voices in Europe. Euro-BioImaging Bio-Hub Director, Antje Keppler, currently acts as Chair of the ERIC Forum. 

Furthermore, Euro-BioImaging is active in the ERIC Forum 2 project, leading Work Package 6 at the forefront of aligning ERICs with EU policy priorities specifically for user access and enhancing visibility in national arenas, including drafting white papers to outline general positions such as the future Framework Program 10. Euro-BioImaging actively participates in joint efforts to extend the ERICs’ impact beyond Horizon Europe’s Excellent Science Pillar I into addressing Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness (Pillar II) and bolstering European Innovation (Pillar III). 

Additionally, Euro-BioImaging supports implementing recommendations from the ERIC Forum Policy, EGERIC, and OECD Reports to address systemic bottlenecks. Our role includes analysing key challenges for ERIC sustainability and ensuring transnational access to research infrastructures, which contributed to the recent revisions of the European Charter of Access to Research Infrastructures.

Learn more about Euro-BioImaging’s strategic involvement in policy initiatives and European Collaboration and in the news articles below. 

Euro-BioImaging & policy initiatives

Group photo at the EU-Australian Health Research Infrastructure Symposium in Prato, 2025.

September 24, 2025

Successful Australian & European Health Research Infrastructures symposium

From September 16-19, 2025, representatives of European and Australian Health Research Infrastructures gathered at the Monash University Prato Centre in Prato, Italy. The Euro-BioImaging…

September 23, 2025

New European strategy on Research & Technology Infrastructures

The European Commission has published its new Strategy on Research & Technology Infrastructures that aims to “make the EU the best place in the…

April 9, 2025

Meeting European Innovators at the EIC Summit 2025

EIC Summit 2025 Last week, Strategic Business Developer Claudia Pfander and Anne-Charlotte Joubert, Senior Officer for European Affairs, represented Euro-BioImaging at the European…

Ilari Pulli presents WP 6 advancements at the ERIC Forum Annual Meeting.

January 31, 2025

Euro-BioImaging at the ERIC Forum Annual Meeting in Brussels

Euro-BioImaging was excited to take part in the ERIC Forum Annual Meeting and Satellite Industrial event held this week in Brussels. This event brought…

EIC Euro-BioImaging

November 26, 2024

New partnership between Euro-BioImaging and European Innovation Council to support innovative SMEs and start-ups

In a significant boost for innovation, Euro-BioImaging has joined the EIC Ecosystem Partnership Programme to provide cutting-edge imaging technologies and expert consultancy services through…

Stefaan Vandenberghe (Flanders BioImaging Node) and Theodora Stewart (UK Node) with Euro-BioImaging Hut team member Claudia Pfander at the IHI Brokerage Event 2024.

November 15, 2024

Euro-BioImaging Nodes participate in the IHI Brokerage Event

Earlier this week, four Euro-BioImaging Nodes accompanied by Claudia Pfander, Euro-BioImaging’s Strategic Business Developer, participated in a 2-day IHI Brokerage event in Brussels, designed…

Antje Keppler, Euro-BioImaging Bio-Hub Section Director

November 14, 2024

Antje Keppler elected for a second term as ERIC Forum Chair

We are pleased to announce that Euro-BioImaging Bio-Hub Section Director, Antje Keppler, was unanimously elected for a second term as ERIC Forum Chair by…

EIC & SME meeting in Leuven

November 11, 2024

Advancing AI in Medical Imaging: Empowering EIC Innovators through Collaboration with Euro-BioImaging ERIC

On Monday, November 4th, Euro-BioImaging and the European Innovation Council (EIC) took a significant step forward in their collaboration by organising a joint matchmaking…

DG RTG Director General Marc Lemaître visits Euro-BioImaging headquarters

August 29, 2024

DG RTD Director General Marc Lemaître visits Euro-BioImaging headquarters

Today, we had the privilege of welcoming Marc Lemaître, Director-General of the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD), to Euro-BioImaging’s headquarters in Turku,…

August 28, 2024

“Enhancing SME access to European research and technology infrastructures” featured in Science|Business

We proudly celebrate the publication in Science|Business of the report on the “Enhancing SME Access to European Research and Technology Infrastructures: A Pathway…