Atividade Parlamentar Alliance for Biomedical Research

Maria da Graça Carvalho participated as a speaker in the annual meeting of The Alliance for Biomedical Research in Europe, in Brussels.

During her intervention, Ms. Carvalho spoke about how best to further European research with regard to the biomedical domain and more particularly how to further collaboration between the Alliance for Biomedical Research - a unified voice for the biomedical community - and the EU institutions.

The Alliance contacted major stakeholders in European decision making such as European Ministers of Research of the member states, members of Parliament particularly dedicated to research and the European Commission.

Ms Carvalho´s intervention was followed by the Alliance priorities and plans to improve the conditions for European biomedical research.

The Alliance for Biomedical Research in Europe was founded on 9 December 2010 in Brussels, during a meeting with executives of major biomedical societies from all over Europe, representing approximately 400,000 biomedical researchers. There were several reasons for founding the Alliance including the growing concerns by European scientists that we are losing our international competitiveness due to insufficient funding, the complicated and excessive administrative burdens on scientists applying and/or receiving EU support, promote the influence of active scientists on European research plans and their implementations as well as concerns over the fragmented European science funding in the health area.