Research Working Group

Mission Statement

We believe that we should keep the Group open. This means, the Group should be open for all interested people working really practically in the field of experimental research in all parts of Europe. Moreover, this research network should also be open for colleagues who are planing to establish experimental resuscitation research in the future, and who would like to learn from groups that have been already established.

We should define the atmosphere of the Group as follows: open, cooperative, supportive to lesser experienced members and without competition.
We are all working in the same field of research and this field is very important for human health. There is enough space for all the (at the moment very few) people that are really working experimentally in that field and we must not be afraid about competition at all.
We should try to take the chance to bring different researchers together and to follow an interdiciplinary approach, i.e. we should become a Group
where clinically oriented experimental resuscitation reserach meets with basic neurobiological and cardiological/cardiovascular research.

To fomally establish the group, we would like to suggest a small one-day scientific and busyness meeting.
The topics for such a meeting could be:

1. Introduction
2. Short scientific presentations of the work done and work in progress of the participants
3. Structure of the Group, members, future meetings of the Group, organisation and communication.
4. Relationship of the Group to the experimental groups in the US and to the AHA, SCCM, and PULSE.
5. Future sources of funding for experimental resuscitation research in Europe (we should try to establish experimental cooperations between different countries in order to get funding from the European Community; such a process would further increase the effectiveness of experimental
work in Europe and may help to transform the concepts of important experimental work to multicentre clinical studies).
6. Mode and contents of participation of the Experimental Group at the ERC meeting in Florence.