EuroTravnet has been selected for the award of the ECDC procurement contract: “Travel Medicine in Europe: existing structures, functions and added-value of ECDC. Building a network to support Travel and Tropical Medicine related activities at ECDC. Public tender OJ/2008/07/08-PROC/2008/019”.   The framework contract has been concluded for an initial period of two years, with a possibility of an extension once for a period of two years (2+2).  It includes 3 work packages (WP):

WP 1: Secretariat and information management of the network

The objectives of WP 1 are to hold a single Network secretariat responsible for the overall administration of the EuroTravNet project (including financial oversight), the maintenance of a directory of the network members and their expertise, the organisation of meetings of the Steering Committee and annual meetings of the network members, and the preparation and update of documents/deliverables for dissemination on the ECDC website.

WP 2: Travel medicine resources review

This WP aims to provide specific reports and documents regarding current situation of Travel Medicine in Europe,and include (i) Updated inventory of travel medicine resources in Europe by country, (ii) Updated inventory of global travel medicine resources (infrastructures and functions) of international organizations and main Organizations outside Europe such above, (iii) Updated inventory of global travel medicine products issued on a regular basis by travel medicine professionals to assess and manage the risks to health associated with travel to any country in the world, (iv) a review of the current guidelines used in Europe (EU Member States, Associated, Candidate and EEA/EFTA countries) for giving pre-travel advice on the main preventable travel-related communicable diseases.

Please see Travel Medicine Inventory in Europe for more details and to take our survey.

WP 3: Support to ECDC's Epidemic Intelligence and Response activities

For the entire duration of the tender, EuroTravNet members will actively participate in the epidemic intelligence activities (support outbreak and cluster detection, verification and investigation) and give advice and guidance for risk assessment and risk communication.

The activities and results of these work packages will be reported in collaboration with ECDC and following the ECDC tenter terms of reference.  See the linked PDF documents below for more details about the ECDC tender:

Invitation to Tender (1.38MB)   Tender Specifications (225kB)   Diseases of Interest (15kB)

Organization of EuroTravNet