Project Coordinator

JOB TITLE: EUPATI Project Coordinator

KEYWORDS: Project Coordinator, European Projects, Training and Capacity Building, Patient Education, Scientific Research, Medicines R&D, Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration, Educational Content Development

REPORTS TO: EUPATI Executive Director

LOCATION: Remote (entirely home-based). Applicants should be residents in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Ireland or Spain, or have a consultant/freelance status in another EU country. Regular travel within Europe will be necessary.

LANGUAGE: English

CONTRACT: 80%-100% fixed-term contract (minimum 12 months, renewable)

START DATE: As soon as possible

DEADLINE: Rolling recruitment process

INTERVIEW: Potential candidates will be invited to an online interview after submitting their application

BACKGROUND

The European Patients' Academy (EUPATI) is a public-private partnership and a collaborative multi-stakeholder initiative bringing together patient organisations, the pharmaceutical industry, academic and not-for-profit institutions. EUPATI was launched in 2012 as a flagship project of the European Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI), and is today established as a non-profit foundation in the Netherlands.

EUPATI is a fully remote workplace and does not have an office. However, regular in person meetings are organised for the Secretariat Staff and also within the framework of projects and training events.

EUPATI's mission is to provide education and resources that enable patients and researchers to collaborate, co-create, and innovate, inspiring collective global change across the health innovation ecosystem.

It does this through the EUPATI Patient Expert Training Programme (launched in 2015) and has trained more than 500 Patient Experts (EUPATI Fellows) to date. The Programme is, since 2020, provided via an online learning platform, the EUPATI Open Classroom, which has close to 3,500 registered users. In addition, EUPATI provides an open-access multilingual Toolbox that has served more than 8.5 million users in 14 languages around the world. Additionally, EUPATI coordinates a network of 20+ National Platforms (ENPs) in Europe and in Japan.

EUPATI's educational content development builds on the strength of EUPATI as a multi-stakeholder initiative, bringing together different perspectives around medicines and health technologies R&D. In line with this approach, representatives from patient organisations, academia, industry, medtech, digital sector, regulatory affairs, HTA bodies, health care provision and any other relevant areas are included in the content development process. The approach is participatory and collaborative co-designed, with patient perspective in the focus. The guiding principles for all content development are quality, transparency, accessibility, factual accuracy, neutrality, and readability.

Since its inception as an IMI project, EUPATI has been involved in various initiatives and European projects (IMI/IHI, EIT Health, EU4Health etc) to ensure that there is a continued development of training and educational materials for patients and patient representatives in medicines research and development and an increased understanding of meaningful patient involvement across all other stakeholders https://eupati.eu/projects/. EUPATI's involvement in projects typically covers the following areas:

• Providing the perspectives and input of EUPATI Patient Experts (EUPATI Fellows)
• Developing training and/or educational material for patients and/or patient representatives
• Providing tailor‑made patient involvement training for the project consortium
• Engaging national level actors in patient education via EUPATI (multistakeholder) National Platforms
• Dissemination of project outcomes via EUPATI multi-stakeholder networks

Since May 2025, EUPATI is a partner in IHI-GREG project, 'Testing, improving, and co‑creating Guidance and Tools for Real World Evidence Generation and Use for DecisionMaking in Europe' (2025-2030). GREG is a public‑private consortium of 29 organisations that aims to create, test, and share practical, evidence‑based guidance and tools to help generate and use Real World Evidence (RWE) to inform regulatory and Health Technology Assessment (HTA) decision‑making. EUPATI's role is to co‑coordinate a workstream on engagement of patients and patient communities, including an internal Patient Advisory Group (PAG) and developing an online course on RWE addressed to patients.

EUPATI is now looking for a Project Coordinator to coordinate EUPATI's involvement in European projects (especially IHI-GREG project) and EUPATI's educational content development in these projects as relevant.

We are looking for a person who embraces the EUPATI team culture. We embrace a family‑like environm