GREEN-TRIALS

Funding programme: Erasmus + (2025-1-CZ01-KA220-HED-000355652)

Budget: €400K

Coordinator: Masaryk University

Duration: 3 years (Nov 2025 - Oct 2028) 

GREEN-TRIALS aims to create a curriculum, training courses, and workshops focusing on harmonising clinical
trials education with environmental sustainability.

The strategies of decreasing carbon footprint and conserving resources in clinical trials are known and feasible across the entire clinical trial. However, there is no formal training to facilitate the conduct of greener trials globally. Our proposed curriculum will be online, open-access, targeted at postgraduate medicine, pharmacy, biomedical, and health professions students as the primary populations. Students will utilise this knowledge as they progress through their careers. The materials will be further structured to provide workshop materials to upskill existing clinical study staff on the principles of environmental sustainability in their activity.  

Our curriculum, courses, and workshops will be available in five languages (English, French, German, Portuguese, Czech) to facilitate the transferability and wide dissemination of the project outcomes. The open access training will be made available through a learning management system and can be transferred to the local institution. 

Teacher's guides will complement the curriculum in order to support its implementation in existing programmes despite, potentially limited teachers' expertise in this area. They will also support the use of innovative teaching methods and make the curriculum inclusive for students from under-served groups. The teacher’s guides will be available in five (English, French, German, Portuguese, Czech) languages too.

ECRIN's role in GREEN-TRIALS

ECRIN is responsible for the dissemination of the project but will also contribute to all other elements from the development of the learning materials and teachers' guides, principally in a review and translation capacity.