EU Network Training Centre (EU-NTC)

The European Union Network Training Centre (EU NTC) is an initiative to offer training opportunities to the staff of medicines regulatory authorities in the European medicines regulatory network, in the fields of human and veterinary medicines. It is overseen by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and Heads of Medicines Agencies (HMA).

EMA and HMA use the EU NTC to share knowledge, enhance professional development and promote the exchange of good practices across the network by offering scientific and regulatory training opportunities to all network staff.

The initiative makes it possible to pool resources and harness expertise available in regulatory authorities in different EU countries to develop high quality, relevant training offers for the benefit of the entire regulatory network.

The EU NTC's training offer is open to the following people:
 

• All staff of the European medicines regulatory network.
• External experts involved in EU regulatory procedures and EMA activities (e.g. experts working for an EMA scientific committee who are not affiliated with a national competent authority).

On a pilot basis, some EU NTC training materials are also accessible to international regulators and may become available to a wider audience.

You can find all the information about the EU Network Training Centre, including instructions to access and an overview of the training offer, via the EU NTC portal: EU NTC Portal

The governance of the EU NTC includes:

• The EU NTC Training Steering group (TrSG) - responsible for strategic direction.

  The Co-chairs of the EU NTC Training Steering Group are Momir Radulović, Head of Slovenian Medicines and Medical Devices Agency (JAZMP) and Zaide Frias, Head of Digital Business Transformation Task Force at EMA. 

  Current members of the TrSG are drawn from DE-h, DE-v, FR-h, FR-v, IE, NL, PL, SI and EMA.

• The curriculum steering groups - operating under the relevant Expert Bodies to plan and coordinate the development of training
• The EU NTC core team - providing technical and instructional design support to course developers and curriculum teams. The core team collaborates with contact persons at each NCA for the decentralised user management of the EU NTC shared digital platform (the 'Local Administrators') and to cascade information from the EU NTC down to NCA staff ('Training Champions').

Contact the EU NTC core team, located at EMA, via networktrainingnoSpam@noSpamema.europanoSpam.eu

Further information can be found on:

• EMA website: EU Network Training Centre (EU NTC) | European Medicines Agency (EMA)
• EU NTC portal: EU NTC Portal