TINNET: Pan-European Research Project

[daedalus]

The COST, an organisation of European countries + Turkey is supposed to coordinate and fund research in science, medecine and erm... other stuff. It has started a project about tinnitus. They speak about neurophysiology so it probably won't be about the usual counseling babble. Finally some European public funding for tinnitus.


About COST: http://www.cost.eu/about_cost

About the tinnitus project: http://www.tinnitusresearch.org/en/tinnet/tinnet-cost_en.php

 

[Markku]

I also got the email (everyone who subscribes to TRI Newsletter gets it):

Tinnitus Research Network TINNET approved by the EU: Invitation to participate

BMBS COST Action BM1306
TINNET - Better Understanding the Heterogeneity of Tinnitus to Improve and Develop New Treatments
The proposal "Better Understanding the Heterogeneity of Tinnitus to Improve and Develop New Treatments – TINNET" has been approved by the COST Committee of Senior Officials. This project will help to improve our knowledge about tinnitus, the treatment of the tinnitus patients and increases the already fruitful cooperation among tinnitus researches in Europe any further.
We are now inviting tinnitus researchers from as many european countries as possible to participate in the project.

What is the COST action about?
Goal of the COST project is to create a paneuropean tinnitus research network and build up a large scale data base of clinical, neuroimaging and genetic data in order to identify pathophysiologically and clinically meaningful subtypes of tinnitus.Read more about the project.

Who can participate?
Tinnitus researchers that are located in the COST countries. These are: Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

Which countries are already participating?
France, Germany, Poland, Spain and the UK have already signed in.

When will it start?
The Kick-off Meeting of the Management Committee will be in late March or early April in Brussels.

What to do if you want to participate?
If you want to participate, please contact the leader of the COST action Berthold Langguth (berthold.langguth@medbo.de) and inform the national coordinator of your country.
Contact details for the national coordinators can be found here: http://www.cost.eu/about_cost/who/(type)/31.

 

[SISKO]

Ok - what does it mean finally ?

I thought there is already partnership with several countries.

It looks like they want to increase their network ?

 

[attheedgeofscience]

The following piece of information may have flown under the radar for some time (but has been mentioned on TT before):

http://tinnet.tinnitusresearch.net/...-groups/tinnitus-working-groups-overview.html

Quote - in part - from the TINNET website:

Previous genetics endeavours in complex disease have shown that uniform sample recruitment standards and detailed phenotyping as well as appropriate endophenotyping using intermediate traits are an inevitable prerequisite to succeed. These tools will be developed by specialized working groups in this Action.

TINNET stands for Tinnitus Network and New Treatments for Tinnitus (reverse order).