ADVANCE – Educating the next generation of ATMP professionals

ADVANCE in a nutshell

ADVANCE is a 30-month EU training project, supported by Erasmus plus programme with the objective to develop a 3-stage blended learning programme to support early-career biomedical scientists in developing currently missing scientific knowledge, transversal skills and competences to meet the key challenge areas existing in the ATMP development cycle.

The “next generation of ATMP developers” – i.e. early-career biomedical academics (PhDs, Postdocs), including doctors in training, clinician,scientists and SME-based professionals,  who are considered to be an important component of the labour market and the critical intermediaries of the ATMP development pipeline – are the core target group for the three-stage blended learning programme foreseen by ADVANCE.

Intellectual Outputs

The project will generate 5 different outputs:

• Online course (IO1 )
• Webinars (IO2)
• Workshop (IO3)
• Open Badges (IO4)
• Sustainability plan (IO5)

ADVANCE consortium

The consortium is led by EATRIS ERIC and consists of 6 additional European partners:

• Elevate Health, The Netherlands
• Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), Italy
• KU Leuven, Belgium 
• ULB/ I3H, Belgium 
• University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Pharmacy (UL FFA), Slovenia
• Takis Biotech, Italy

This project receives funding from the European Union’s Erasmus Plus programme under grant agreement 2019-1-NL01-KA203-060286.