Australia and EU agree to collaborate on health research infrastructure

On 8 May, formal collaboration agreements were signed between Australian and European research infrastructure projects in the areas of translational research, clinical trials and imaging. The signing of these agreements is an important development following the third European Union - Australia Workshop on Research Infrastructure, held in Melbourne in November 2013.

Australia’s National Imaging Facility (NIF) and Therapeutic Innovation Australian (TIA) have successfully developed agreements to collaborate with European research infrastructure partners EuroBioimaging, ECRIN, EATRIS and EU Openscreen.

Nicola Gordon-Smith, Deputy Head of Mission to Belgium, and Dr Octavi Quintana Trias, principal adviser at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Research and Innovation welcomed the European and Australian contingents and congratulated the project leaders on having so quickly agreed that they can work together across a number of important areas.

source:e-IRG