The route to financial sustainability of a large Public Private Partnership – the example of the clinical trial network conect4children (c4c)

The Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI), now the Innovative Health Initiative (IHI), funds promising projects across Europe to turn health research into real benefits for patients and society. However, many of these initiatives struggle to maintain impact once EU funding ends. Despite general recognition of the need for financial and organisational sustainability, there is a lack…

Developing and streamlining clinical trial services to support pediatric drug development across 21 countries in Europe: insights from the conect4children (c4c) network

The success of multinational pediatric clinical trials depends on efficient, high-quality, and scalable trial support services. From 2018 to 2025, the conect4children (c4c) network – a public-private partnership funded by the Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 – brought together 10 pharmaceutical companies and 33 academic and third-sector organizations to develop such services across 220+ sites in…

c4c – the WHY and the HOW

We are working to ensure children have the same rights as adults to access high quality, evidence-based medicines and health care services. We are fully committed to increasing high quality paediatric research.

Breaking the ground on the c4c IT system

One of the goals of the c4c project is to boost the quality of data gathered from the clinical trials run through the c4c project. This will provide us with information on how the c4c network is performing. Fondazione Gianni Benzi Onlus and Janssen Pharmaceutical NV are working to design and integrate IT systems and…