Spotlight: GermanNetPaeT
GermanNetPaeT is the German Network for Paediatric Trials and was founded in 2018 as the German National Hub (NH), a partner of the European conect4children network (c4c network).
Spotlight on SwissPedNet
What did the Swiss clinical research landscape look like ten years ago? Research infrastructures in adult medicine were available and funded, and Swiss paediatricians were aiming to include paediatrics into those activities.
Spotlight on In4kids – the Irish National Hub
In4kids, the Irish national hub of the c4c network has been going from strength to strength over recent years, helping to bring researchers across the island of Ireland together to improve the quantity and quality of children’s clinical research in Ireland.
Spotlight on a National Hub: Netherlands
As of 2017 Pedmed-NL is the Dutch network to facilitate paediatric clinical trials.
Spotlight on a National Hub: Portugal
STAND4Kids is the Portuguese National Hub for paediatric clinical trials. Our story dates back to 2018, as an emerging network born within c4c. We are fully dedicated to build a sustainable, lean, fit-for-purpose, national paediatric trial network that facilitates high-quality, child/family- and clinically-relevant, operationally efficient paediatric clinical trials in Portugal.
Spotlight on a National Hub: Estonia
The Estonian National Hub (Estonian Paediatric Research Group – ELAV) was created by a cooperation agreement between the Tartu University Hospital, the Tallinn Children’s Hospital and the University of Tartu in 2018 and is part of the Clinical Research Center.
Spotlight on a National Hub: Greece
HELPnet (Hellenic Paediatric Network) is the Greek National network of paediatric clinical research sites.
Spotlight on a National Hub: Danish
DanPedMed is the Danish National Hub in the connect4children (c4c) project and is represented as a third party to the c4c beneficiary HUS-Norway. DanPedMed is working towards becoming an independent Danish National Hub, after the initial c4c IMI funding period concludes in 2024. DanPedMed was established in 2016 through a collaboration between Danish Pediatric Society…
Spotlight on a National Hub: Norway
NorPedMed is the Norway National Hub in c4c, and the secretariat has been strengthened accordingly with additional resources allocated to take care of our obligations within the c4c. NorPedMed was founded in 2013 to link the paediatric Clinical Trial Units (CTUs) at the six university hospitals. The basic infrastructure of these CTUs (e.g., nurses, housing,…
Spotlight on a National Hub: Spain
Back in November 2016, the first meeting for the constitution of RECLIP was held at La Paz Research Institute in Madrid (IdiPAZ). By that time, the network consisted of 12 reference hospitals, the Foundation for the Promotion of Health and Biomedical Research (FISABIO) and 2 research networks RITIP (Translational Research Network in Pediatric Infectious Diseases)…
