Working group Sustainability

Objective
Ensure the joint research infrastructure is sustainable.

Challenges
· Temporal limitation of sponsorship until 2025.
· Sustainable implementation in university towns with general practice research institutes.

Proposed solutions
· Use of checklists to embed research practice networks in university towns with general practice research institutes.
· Checklists for external partners to ensure cooperation with industry is transparent. Develop a standardized approach to deal with conflicts of interest.
· Develop a joint tool to calculate the cost of research projects.
· Strategic development of cross-network cooperation.

Speaker of the working group:
Dr. med. Susanne Döpfmer, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin (Institut für Allgemeinmedizin), REPoNsE                                                       Elena Hohmann, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Centrum für Allgemeinmedizin), NRW-GPRN