BE READY NOW
Start Date:
January 2026
End Date:
ongoing
Duration:
84 months
ID-CARE Role:
Website:
Task Lead
Description
GA Number: 101226682
Title: BE READY NOW - EUROPEAN PARTNERSHIP FOR PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS
Background:
BE READY NOW aims to implement the European Partnership for Pandemic Preparedness. This Partnership will gather 74 organisations from 24 countries, including public funding agencies, public health institutes, clinical networks, ministries and research infrastructures active in pandemic preparedness. This consortium is aligned around the vision of building a European research and innovation ecosystem optimally prepared for future health crises caused by infectious diseases, therefore contributing to the objectives of the European Research Area (ERA).
To achieve its ambitious vision, BE READY NOW will align stakeholders in pandemic preparedness around shared research priorities to foster a coordinated and efficient research landscape, producing sustainable scientific, health, and socio-economic benefits. Through Joint Transnational Calls, BE READY NOW will help close critical research gaps covering the whole spectrum of pandemic preparedness research (including basic research, diagnostics, therapeutics, vaccines, and public health interventions), through an interdisciplinary approach. It will therefore directly address the goals of Horizon Europe’s Cluster 1 Health.
Objectives:
Building on the infrastructures, projects and initiatives supported by the European Commission and Member States, BE READY NOW will establish and sustain an "ever-warm" research ecosystem, capable of pivoting swiftly in response to emerging health threats. This ecosystem will include an innovative, ever-warm EU-wide network of networks of clinical research sites. In the longer term, BE READY NOW will improve the EU's capacity in the areas of prevention, preparedness, surveillance, risk assessment and response to infectious diseases, ensuring the international visibility of the EU as a recognised actor for pandemic preparedness research and response, and providing resilience for citizens and health systems beyond the Partnership’s duration.
ID-CARE Team Activities:
UNIVR is the leador of Task 12.5 and contributes to tasks 12.1-.6
University Hospital of Verona (AOUI) contibutes to tasks 12.1-.5
Partners
INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHERCHE MEDICALE (INSERM) – France (coordinator)
AGES - OSTERREICHISCHE AGENTUR FUR GESUNDHEIT UND ERNAHRUNGSSICHERHEIT GMBH (AGES) - Austria
FONDS ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTLICHEN FORSCHUNG (FWF) - Austria
AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GMBH (AIT) - Austria
BUNDESMINISTERIUM FUR FRAUEN, WISSENSCHAFT UND FORSCHUNG (BMFWF) - Austria
MEDIZINISCHE UNIVERSITAET WIEN (MUW) - Austria
VLAAMSE GEWEST (VLO EWI) - Belgium,
SCIENSANO (Sciensano) - Belgium
EUROPEAN RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE ON HIGHLY PATHOGENIC AGENTS (ERINHA) - Belgium
FONDS VOOR WETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK-VLAANDEREN (FWO) - Belgium
SERVICE PUBLIC DE WALLONIE (SPW) - Belgium,
FONDS DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE- FNRS (FRS – FNRS) - Belgium
SERVICE PUBLIC FEDERAL DE PROGRAMMATION POLITIQUE SCIENTIFIQUE (BELSPO) - Belgium
UNIVERSITE LIBRE DE BRUXELLES (ULB) - Belgium
UNIVERSITEIT ANTWERPEN (UANTWERPEN) - Belgium
NATIONAL CENTER OF INFECTIOUS AND PARASITIC DISEASES (NCIPD) - Bulgaria
MINISTERSTVO ZDRAVOTNICTVI CESKE REPUBLIKY (MZCR) - Czechia
DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUR LUFT - UND RAUMFAHRT EV (DLR) - Germany
BUNDESMINISTERIUM FUR FORSCHUNG, TECHNOLOGIE UND RAUMFAHRT (BMBF) - Germany
CHARITE - UNIVERSITAETSMEDIZIN BERLIN (Charité) - Germany
JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE-UNIVERSITAET FRANKFURT AM MAIN (GUF) - Germany
STATENS SERUM INSTITUT (SSI) - Denmark
TRIAL NATION (TRIALNATION) - Denmark
INNOVATIONSFONDEN (IFD) - Denmark
PIRKANMAAN HYVINVOINTIALUE (TAUH) - Finland
FVR - Suomen rokotetutkimus Oy (FVR) - Finland
ECRIN EUROPEAN CLINICAL RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE NETWORK (ECRIN) - France
AGENCE NATIONALE DE LA SECURITE SANITAIRE DE L’ALIMENTATION DE L’ENVIRONNEMENT ET DU TRAVAIL (ANSES) - France
EPICONCEPT (EPICONCEPT) - France
GENIKI GRAMMATIA EREVNAS KAI KAINOTOMIAS (GSRI) - Greece
NEMZETI KUTATASI FEJLESZTESI ES INNOVACIOS HIVATAL (NKFIH) - Hungary,
THE HEALTH RESEARCH BOARD (HRB) - Ireland
TAIGHDE EIREANN RESEARCH IRELAND (Research Ireland) - Ireland
ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITA (ISS) - Italy
MINISTERO DELLA SALUTE (IT MoH) - Italy
FONDAZIONE PENTA ETS (PENTA) - Italy
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI VERONA (UNIVR) - Italy
VIESOJI ISTAIGA INOVACIJU AGENTURA (IA Lithuania) - Lithuania
UNIVERSITE DU LUXEMBOURG (uni.lu) - Luxembourg
LABORATOIRE NATIONAL DE SANTE (LNS) - Luxembourg
LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF HEALTH (LIH) - Luxembourg
ZORGONDERZOEK NEDERLAND ZON (ZonMw) - Netherlands
RIJKSINSTITUUT VOOR VOLKSGEZONDHEID EN MILIEU (RIVM) - Netherlands
STICHTING EUROPEAN CLINICAL RESEARCH ALLIANCE ON INFECTIOUS DISEASES (Ecraid) - Netherlands
MINISTRY OF HEALTH (NZ MOH) - New Zealand
MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF NEW ZEALAND (MRINZ) - New Zealand
FOLKEHELSEINSTITUTTET (NIPH) - Norway
NORGES FORSKNINGSRAD (RCN) - Norway
UNIWERSYTET MEDYCZNY W BIALYMSTOKU (MUB) - Poland
INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE SAUDE DR. RICARDO JORGE (INSA) - Portugal
AICIB - AGENCIA DE INVESTIGACAO CLINICA E INOVACAO BIOMEDICA (AICIB) - Portugal
VETENSKAPSRADET - SWEDISH RESEARCH COUNCIL (SRC) - Sweden
FOLKHALSOMYNDIGHETEN (FOHM) - Sweden
UPPSALA UNIVERSITET (UU) - Sweden
KAROLINSKA INSTITUTET (KI) - Sweden
INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III (ISCIII) - Spain
TURKIYE BILIMSEL VE TEKNOLOJIK ARASTIRMA KURUMU (TUBITAK) - Türkiye
STATE INSTITUTION PUBLIC HEALTH CENTER OF THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH OF UKRAINE (PHCU) - Ukraine
UNITED KINGDOM RESEARCH AND INNOVATION (UKRI) - United Kingdom
Department of Health (UKHSA) - United Kingdom
EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY (ELIXIR) - Germany
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON (UCL) - United Kingdom
THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (UOXF) - United Kingdom
FUNDACAO PARA A CIENCIA E A TECNOLOGIA (FCT) - Portugal
MINISTERO DELL'UNIVERSITA E DELLA RICERCA (MUR) - Italy
SOTSIAALMINISTEERIUM (MoSAE) - Estonia
SIHTASUTUS EESTI TEADUSAGENTUUR (ETAG) - Estonia
CENTRUM VEDECKO TECHNICKYCH INFORMACII SLOVENSKEJ REPUBLIKY (CVTI SR) - Slovakia
UNIVERSITY OF GALWAY (Galway) - Ireland
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN, NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, DUBLIN (UCD) - Ireland
AGENTIA NATIONALA PENTRU CERCETARE SI DEZVOLTARE (NARD) – Moldova
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