Recent meetings
| Date | Commissioner / Cabinet | Topic | File |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 Sept 2025 | Dubravka Šuica Commissioner | MENA portfolio, Blue economy, New Pact for the Mediterranean | — |
| 16 Sept 2025 | Dubravka Šuica Commissioner | MENA portfolio, Blue economy, New Pact for the Mediterranean | SRC |
| 03 Mar 2025 | Manuel Aleixo Cabinet member | R&I priorities | — |
| 03 Mar 2025 | Manuel Aleixo Cabinet member | R&I priorities | SRC |
| 06 Jul 2020 | Jean-Eric Paquet Director-General | Position paper of EU-LIFE: How to ensure health safety in Europe – The vision of the EU-LIFE institutes | SRC |
| 06 Jul 2020 | Jean-Eric Paquet Director-General | Position paper of EU-LIFE: How to ensure health safety in Europe – The vision of the EU-LIFE institutes | — |
| 05 Dec 2019 | Mariya Gabriel Commissioner | Research and Innovation | SRC |
| 05 Dec 2019 | Mariya Gabriel Commissioner | Research and Innovation | — |
| 25 Apr 2019 | Antonio Lowndes Marques De Araujo Vicente Cabinet member | Life Sciences in Horizon Europe | — |
| 25 Apr 2019 | Antonio Lowndes Marques De Araujo Vicente Cabinet member | Life Sciences in Horizon Europe | SRC |
| 19 Sept 2018 | Keith Sequeira Cabinet member | Horizon Europe | SRC |
| 19 Sept 2018 | Keith Sequeira Cabinet member | Horizon Europe | — |
Mission & Goals
EU-LIFE is an alliance of 17 research centers whose mission is to support and strengthen European research excellence (www.eu-life.eu). EU-LIFE members are leading research institutes in their countries and renowned internationally for producing excellent research, widely transferring knowledge and nurturing talent. The alliance spans geographically across Europe and represents a wide variety of European research contexts. Currently with more than 600 independent research groups and 170 technological facilities with over 11000 researchers and management staff, the EU-LIFE partner organizations represent a relevant landscape of research across Europe.
EU Legislative Interests
Research & Innovation policy; Competitiveness; EU budget; Education; Employment and economy; Health Research; Food and soil research; Biotechnology and ethics.
Communication Activities
• Stakeholder contributions on EC policy processes: stakeholder contributing to the development of EU R&I policies namely on the ERA, research careers, research assessment, gender and equality, health research • EU-LIFE statements, open letters and papers on Horizon Europe & third country association, MFF, FP10, ERC, Health research, and European Research Area • Meetings, consultation workshops & events with key policy leaders and stakeholders
Interests Represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Member Of
CoARA
Organisation Members
Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG, Spain) | Central European Institute of Technology (CEITEC, Czech Republic) | European Institute of Oncology (IEO, Italy) | Flanders Institute For Biotechnology (VIB, Belgium) | Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI, Switzerland) | Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine (GIMM, Portugal) | Institut Curie (Curie, France) | Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM, Finland) | Institute of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology (IMBB FORTH, Greece) | International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology in Warsaw (IIMCB, Poland) | Max Delbrück Center (MDC, Germany) | Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (CeMM, Austria) | Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI, Croatia) | The Babraham Institute (Babraham, United Kingdom) | The Francis Crick Institute (Crick, United Kingdom) | The Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI, The Netherlands) | The University of Copenhagen Biotech Research & Innovation Centre (BRIC, Denmark)