Annual report 2017

EURAMED European Alliance for Medical Radiation Protection Research

The European Alliance for Medical Radiation Protection Research (EURAMED: www.euramed. eu) was conceived as an idea in 2016 by five European medical societies: ESTRO, the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM), the European Federation of Organisations for Medical Physics (EFOMP), the European Federation of Radiographer Societies (EFRS) and the European Society of Radiology (ESR), under the umbrella of the European Institute for Biomedical Imaging Research (www.eibir.org). It became a legal entity in 2017. EURAMED actively contributes to the activities of CONCERT, the European joint project (EJP) on the integration of radiation protection research, working together with the other European radiation protection research platforms: European radioecology alliance (ALLIANCE); multidisciplinary European low-dose initiative (MELODI), of which ESTRO is a member; European radiation dosimetry group (EURADOS); and the European platform for nuclear and radiological emergency response and recovery (NERIS). Each platform contributes to CONCERT its own specific strategic research agenda for funding. Members of these platforms can, if successful, benefit from both research, education and training grants. In 2017, there was €7m available for such activities.

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