ITPain is a one-year networking group project of 21 international experts funded by ERA-NET NEURON and aims to address the huge heterogeneity of protocol design and data collection in preclinical and clinical chronic pain trials, through harmonising protocol templates and data collection (including *omics-approaches) for preclinical and clinical trials and aligning them in a translational approach. This will be achieved by developing consensus on protocols and a minimum and clinically relevant “Core Set of Data”. Furthermore, a first step towards a joint server infrastructure for an enhanced comparability and analysis of already available data resources (collected by network members from previous studies to assess comparability and integrability of multidimensional datasets) and future trials is planned.

Disseminate and communicate the project results to multiple stakeholders including scientists, policymakers, and payers.

FRESCO4NoPain is a 48-month EU-funded Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action, Doctoral Network that will provide world-class interdisciplinary training to 17 Doctoral Candidates in the area of non-pharmacological chronic pain treatment based on the pain-related brain oscillations and neuromodulation. The research will focus on three core areas: Preclinical Studies: Brain circuitries, oscillations, and neuromodulation in pain; Human Experimental Studies: Human mechanisms of brain oscillations and neuromodulation in pain; and Clinical Studies: Brain oscillations and neuromodulation in people with chronic pain.

EFIC is acting as a secondment location for Doctoral Candidates, where researchers will be able to develop a range of transferable skills through working directly for EFIC on its educational and scientific projects, as well as on advocacy, communication and general association management responsibilities.

Digi4MSK ‘Innovation Alliance for Musculoskeletal Health Literacy in the Digital Era’ is a three-year project funded under the European Erasmus+ programme and aims to develop musculoskeletal pain educational content and digital technology for training and educating health professionals and public.

Coordinate the development of guidelines for content; design structure of webinar series; design structure and unify teaching methodologies for workshops and pilot actions in the different European regions; supports all dissemination activities.

HaPpY is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network funded via the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 budget. HaPpY aims to create an optimal environment for the training of Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) to break the vicious cycle linking chronic pain and mood disorders. The final HAPpY event will be held in Cádiz for two full days, on the 25th and 26th of September 2025.

EFIC is acting as a host location for ESRs, where researchers will be able to develop a range of transferable skills through working directly for EFIC on its educational and scientific projects, as well as on advocacy, communication and general association management responsibilities.

The Value of Treatment project is managed by the European Brain Council with financial support from Grunenthal and Pfizer. The project aims to develop a robust health economic assessment of multimodal chronic pain treatment, with input from patients, researchers and clinicians. The project aims to identify the ideal care pathways for various pain types and the socioeconomic impacts of adequate treatment.

EFIC nominated experts to participate in the project, including the current project lead, Professor Rolf-Detlef Treede. EFIC experts provide advice on the project methodology and the EFIC team will eventually support communication and dissemination via advocacy activities.

ECHOO aims to address key gaps in understanding placebo and nocebo effects by providing evidence-based knowledge and competencies for health consumers, supporting improved health self-management.

EFIC will collaborate with institutions across Europe to support the project’s scientific activities and dissemination over the next three years.

IN-ChildPain is a one-year networking group project of 24 international experts funded by ERA-NET NEURON and aims to identify the most important outcome domains that should be assessed in paediatric pain clinical trials and identify the most appropriate (i.e., psychometrically robust, available to researchers at no cost, and easy to translate into multiple languages) patient reported outcome measures (PROMs), develop a guide for an international registry of children with chronic pain and develop a research protocol to study the availability of, and access to, different treatments, to help evaluate their effects as naturally provided to patients.

Assist with developing a plan for sustaining the existence of In-ChildPain beyond the life of the action, and particularly in the dissemination and communication to multiple stakeholders including scientists, policymakers, and payers.