Who are we?

SCReN Platform

It is a collaborative, non-profit, national network structure, funded by the Institute de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII) and co-financed by the European Structural Development Funds (ERDF). (ERDF). It is currently is currently made up of research units clinic distributed throughout the national territory whose objective is to promote and cover the needs of independent clinical research.

Mission

To ensure the provision of transversal support services to the R&D&I system for the realisation of an carrying out the highest quality Clinical Research (CR) of the highest quality, which enables the generation and transfer of knowledge. knowledge in the National Health System (NHS) in order to promote the health and well-being of citizens.

Vision

  • To provide the scientific community with a support structure that facilitates the development of projects of scientific, technological and innovative projects for the NHS with the highest methodological and technical rigour.
  • To provide a coordinated and immediate response at the national level to health emergencies or situations of public interest for the national health system.
  • Optimisation of NHS resources for efficient research.
  • Strengthening the international competitiveness of R&D&I in the Spanish NHS and the internationalisation of the the Platform.
  • To develop new methodological approaches in Clinical Research.
  • Design a plan for the long-term sustainability of the Platform's activities.

Values

  • Commitment to the patient and the scientific community
  • Unit
  • Transparency and integrity
  • Quality
  • Sustainability

Structure and governance

The ISCIII Platform for Clinical Research Support is made up of Clinical Research Units (UICs) and their capacity to provide scientific and of scientific-technical services through infrastructures and professionals belonging to different institutions.

The structure is designed for global management, in a participative, dynamic and efficient way, efficient and according to the requirements of the ISCIII. This Platform is constituted under the following principles:

  1. The participation of all the Clinical Research Support Units (CRUs) in the operation and operation and activities of the Platform, with the assumption of responsibilities in decision-making and in the coordination of activities through the General Assembly, the Steering Committee, the Clinical Research Groups, the Working Groups (WG), the Project Evaluation Committee and the Project Management Teams.
  2. The need to maximise the resources of the different UICs in order to respond to the demand for the demand for collaborative, quality clinical research.
  3. Maximum transparency in decision-making.

The platform is built around the following elements and bodies:

Governance and participation bodies

  1. Steering and Monitoring Committee of the ISCIII Support Platforms to R&D&I in Biomedicine and Health Sciences.To be established.
  2. General Assembly (GA): made up of the principal investigators principal investigators of the different UICs and members of the Coordinator's team.
  3. Steering Committee (SC): chaired by the Platform Coordinator Platform and composed of the sub-coordinators plus 6 representatives of the UICs elected by the GA.

Platform Coordination (PC)

Body in charge of coordinating and monitoring the implementation of strategic plans and approved actions. approved the Steering and Monitoring Commission of the ISCIII Platforms and the Steering Committee. Steering Committee. It reports to the Steering Committee, the GA and the Steering and Monitoring Committee of the ISCIII Platforms and the Steering Committee. of ISCIII PLATFORMS. Internally it is made up of:

  1. Platform Coordinator. Chief responsibility for the Coordination and control of the activities of the Platform, and is directly accountable to the Commission for Management and Monitoring Committee of the ISCIII Platforms.
  2. Three sub-coordinators delegated by the coordinator of the Platform for the implementation and co-ordination of the activities of the Co-ordination and of the WGs.
  3. Technical Secretary: They offer strategic support in the management of of the human and technological resources available in order to make effective the decisions that are decisions that are adopted by the Governance Bodies.

Management and activity monitoring bodies

  1. Working Groups (WG): composed of a coordinator and a sub-coordinator sub-coordinator of each WG and a variable number of members according to the interests and the the interests and capacities of each unit. The GdT must work in close coordination.
  2. Project Evaluation Committee (CEP): its role is to assess the feasibility of each project and its development by the Platform. It is made up of four members of the Coordination and one representative of each WG. It reports to the Steering Committee.
  3. Project Management Teams (PMTs): consisting of staff of UICs staff working directly on each project. It reports to the Evaluation and monitoring the Committee.