The annual symposium of the German National Contact Point for life sciences brings together multiple actors involved in Europe's research and innovation framework program Horizon 2020. This years' overarching theme was an overview of the impact created by joint research projects, with presentations from a European Commission representative, two project coordinators, a patient organisation, a chamber of agriculture, an SME, a proposal evaluator and an NCP, representing multiple points of view on joint research projects.

The presentations from the event are available for download here:

• Insights into the diverse effects of EU collaborative research projects (Sabine Steiner-Lange, Wiebke Müller - NCPs in Life Sciences)
• EU projects with Impact: Expectations, implementation, successes (Dirk Hadrich - DG RTD)
• What do collaborative European research projects accomplish? (Christine M. Freitag - Goethe University Frankfurt)
• Impact of Patient participation in EU joint projects and EU funding (Jan Geissler - Patvocates GmbH)
• One project, many effects (Rainer Mennen - Landwirtschaftskammer Niedersachsen)
• Impact in focus - how to succeed with a convincing concept (Kerstin Lienemann - German institute for food technology)
• Impact in focus - Notes on the evaluation process (Kirsten Steinhausen - Furtwangen University)
• Group Discussion - My experiences with EU collaborative research projects