The project is a pilot project supported by The Nordic Innovation Centre and estimated to take 8 months. The project will:

- Establish a coordinating secretariat function
- Establish a project Steering Committee
- Initiate mapping of spearhead competencies, potential partners and participants
- Run work shops in order to bring interested parties together
- Facilitate formations of partnerships between Hospitals, Academia and private companies
- Facilitate formations of partnerships between existing networks
- Facilitate exploitation of cross-disciplinary innovation potential
- Establish vision, mission and strategies for ScanBalt Clinical Research Network
- Establish a virtual meeting place (extranet) for the network participants
- Develop databases for the purpose of easy access to competencies partner search and cooperation
- Promote quality management in clinical research

The project is strictly coordinated with the ScanBalt organisation and utilizes synergies and benefits from existing communication and coordination structures within ScanBalt.

Contact:
Coordinating partner of the pilot project is the Estonian Genome Project Foundation, www.geenivaramu.ee.

For further information contact Jaanus Pikani, jaanus.pikani@biotech.ee or Helene Alavere, helene.alavere@geenivaramu.ee,