Over the course of the project, several activities have been initiated and successfully completed:
- 14 calls for trans-national access have been completed. In total 95 applications were received (including 9 resubmissions) by 65 research institutions, including 20 SMEs, from 19 countries within Europe and 7 overseas countries. 106 services were granted to 58 projects. The provided services resulted in the advancement along the development pipeline of numerous vaccine candidates addressing a wide range of pathogens. The project results have been published in 47 peer-reviewed publications.
- 15 calls were opened for series of training modules in vaccinology at leading European centres on vaccine R&D. Within these calls, 31 trainings were conducted gathering in total of 721 applications, including 73 applications from Horizon Europe Widening Countries. 426 training applications were awarded.
- Several joint research activities (JRA) to improve services offered in TRANSVAC2 were planned and executed. Data generated in these tasks have been presented at international scientific meetings and published in peer reviewed journals and SOPs developed for TRANSVAC partners and the scientific community.
- A Board of Stakeholders (BoS) comprising representatives of policy and decision makers, industry associations and European infrastructures was established in August 2017. A first BoS workshop organized in June 2018 in Brussels was focused on identifying the gaps in existing European vaccine roadmaps (TRANSVAC and IPROVE). This meeting initated a process of updating TRANSVAC roadmap that was a basis of development of a strategic business plan for a sustainable vaccine R&D infrastructure in Europe. The continuation of the infrastructure beyond that horizon was developed by the ongoing EC-projects TRANSVAC-DS and ISIDORe.
- Multiple promotional actions with the use of different communication tools were implemented to disseminate scientific information and communicate TRANSVAC2’s activities to the scientific community and general public:
o TRANSVAC2 partners presented at over 70 scientific meetings, included posters, presentations, and sharing of fliers.
o The outreach of the project was enhanced by project and partners’ websites as well as social media (Twitter, LinkedIn).
o A promotional movie (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sadifFegks(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie)) and a story of TRANSVAC2 as a successful project (
http://ec.europa.eu/research/infocentre/article_en.cfm?&artid=49836&caller=FP(odnośnik otworzy się w nowym oknie)) are available to the general public.
o The TRANSVAC team has initiated and maintained a number of collaborations with other infrastructures and projects, to cooperate in dissemination activities. These include EC, IMI- funded projects, Research Infrastructures and Vaccine related initiatives and alliances. Consortium is constantly looking for new opportunities for collaboration.
