Healthcare Professionals' Organisations Working Party (HCPWP) workshop with academia

The European Union (EU) Medicines Agencies Network Strategy to 2020 calls for sound collaboration between the network and the academic world to ensure that innovative medicines can be optimally developed for the benefit of all European citizens. A strong partnership between regulators and academia is indispensable for a proactive process to support innovation and channel it into the continuous evolution of regulatory science. This workshop is the culmination of the consultation process to define a framework for collaboration based on robust foundations. The specific objectives of the workshop are to collectively review the status quo, present different perspectives and expectations, and discuss the main pillars of the framework.