In this webinar, Anton Ussi (Operations & Finance Director at EATRIS), Rosan Vegter (Scientific and Education Manager at EATRIS) together with Agustin Arasanz Duque (Senior Innovation Manager at VHIR/EATRIS), provided practical guidance for using two important tools for RD researchers, developed within EU-funded projects: ERICA and EJP RD. This webinar is part of the Educational Webinar Series from ERICA’s WP5 Translation and Innovation. It builds on the introductory webinar “Current research services available for the rare diseases community” that was organized in November 2021 (available on the ERICA website
IRDiRC Announces The Creation of Regulatory Science Committee to Tackle Regulatory Challenges in Rare Disease Research
IRDiRC, a global collaborative initiative with the vision to enable all people living with a rare disease to receive an accurate diagnosis, care, and available therapy within one year of coming to medical attention, today announced the formation of the Regulatory Science Committee (RSC). The new RSC “brings broad expertise across different stakeholders and geographies allowing for a balanced synergy that will provide insights and guidance into the advancement of IRDiRCs mission” said David A. Pearce, Chair of IRDiRC.
Read the full press release here.
ERN Data Management Strategy Workshop in Heidelberg on the 17th-18th of October 2022
WP2 ERICA WP2 Data Collection, Integration and Sharing organised a face-to-face workshop on building an ERN Data Management Strategy Workshop in Heidelberg on the 17th-18th of October 2022. This multi-stakeholders workshop focused on developing a strategic and operational ERNs Data Management Strategy.
Session PresentationsThe presentations of the workshop sessions are now available. In order to download the presentations a password is required. Please request access via ERICA office.
ReadBring Your Own Omics Data workshop (BYOOD) workshop 17th-18th November 2022, Nijmegen, NL
ERNs needs on data analysis (pre-registration)
The Bring Your Own Omics Data workshop (BYOOD) workshop (17th-18th November 2022) is aiming to help ERNs to optimise and integrate their omics data, initiate network analysis, and continue collaborations with the data analysis team.
If you are part of the ERN, please help the EJP RD workshop organising team to further understand what your ERNs needs on data analysis are and complete this pre-registration from by the 2nd of September 2022 through the following link (takes only few minutes!):
The Smart Guidance tool for the FAIRification of rare disease registries
The Smart Guidance tool for the FAIRification of rare disease registries was released on the 18th of July. This is a questionnaire-based tool built on the Data Stewardship Wizard that will guide users (e.g., data stewards) through the process of making their registry more FAIR. It covers various aspects like the composition of the FAIRification team, best practices for data representation, and giving access to your data.
The tool is accessible via: https://smartguidance-rd.ds-wizard.org/ (after signing up)
The User Guide is available here which gives you guidance on how to get started on a Smart Guidance project [...]
Open Funding Call
Deadline: September 1st.
The Networking Support Scheme is back. The aim of the NSS call is to encourage knowledge-sharing between health care professionals, researchers and patients on rare diseases and rare cancers, as well as to enable or increase the participation of usually underrepresented countries in Europe in new and existing research networks. Eligible applicants are health care professionals, researchers, and patient advocacy organisations from the following countries involved in the EJP RD: Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Norway, [...]
IRDiRC‘s Rare Diseases Research Initiatives State of Play 2019-2021 Report
IRDiRC is pleased to announce that the IRDiRC‘s Rare Diseases Research Initiatives State of Play 2019-2021 Report will be published on Tuesday, 05 July 2022.
This report is based on scientific articles and press releases published between 2019 and 2021; it seeks to inform stakeholders and the rare diseases community about the developments and observed trends in the field of rare diseases research. A chapter is dedicated to an update on the global rare diseases research landscape for the past ten years to celebrate IRDiRC’s 10th anniversary.
More information here: https://irdirc.org/resources-2/state-of-play/
ERICA 2nd GA Presentations now available!
The ERICA 2nd General Assembly took place in Bologna, Italy as a hybrid meeting.
We had three productive days full of interactive sessions and we are thankful for everyone’s active contributions both in Bologna and remotely.
All the presentations are now available at the ERICA Website
Download ERICA 2nd GA Summary Report (, 666 KB)
The Innovation Management Toolbox (IMT)
On June 30th, 2022 EJP RD has launch the Innovation Management Toolbox (IMT), a free-to-use and curated reference library of resources in rare disease translational medicine that will provide investigators with self-help resources specific to their needs. The database will be maintained actively!
Learn about the IMT: https://www.ejprarediseases.org/innovation-management-toolbox/ Access the IMT: https://imt.ejprarediseases.org/
Video tutorial for users: https://youtu.be/H92b6WEWFhw
The webinar on “Composite endpoints including patient relevant endpoints (Quality of Life)” video now available
The webinar on “Composite endpoints including patient relevant endpoints (Quality of Life)” is now available here
In this webinar you will learn about:
The procedures to combine multiple endpoints and its limitations The properties and the flexibility of the class of generalized pairwise comparison tests The potential advantages and disadvantages of designing a clinical trial in rare disease with generalized pairwise comparisons primary analysisYou can watch also webinar on Randomization procedures in Rare Disease Clinical Trials here.
All the available ERN Research related webinars: https://erica-rd.eu/events/webinars/