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
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
June 26, 2024
Potential paths of collaboration between SMEs and Research Infrastructures: insights from Euro-BioImaging
At a time when sustaining competitiveness and innovation is becoming a major strategic issue for the European Union, two well-developed ecosystems could, almost organically,…
June 7, 2024
In a challenging global context, research infrastructures are key strategic assets for Europe
The Conference on Research Infrastructures, organised by the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, took place on June 4-5 in Brussels…
