Applications are now open for EURORDIS Winter School 2020, Paris, France. The EURORDIS Winter School on Scientific Innovation and Translational Research consists of a one-week face-to-face training. In addition, it was held in Paris in March and the training modules below, which are available online for anyone to use for free. EURORDIS launched the training with the aim of deepening patient representatives. Who understands how pre-clinical research translates into real benefits for patients with rare diseases? In addition, the training equips participants with knowledge and skills so that they can effectively participate in discussions with researchers, policymakers and companies responsible for research or research infrastructures. Expert speakers and researchers from all over Europe give face-to-face training sessions.
In addition, the first edition of the face-to-face training of the EURORDIS Winter School was in March 2018 in Paris. It covered topics that include the history of genetics, diagnosis, also new technologies in gene therapy and drug reuse and included visits to the laboratory.