About Eurocord-ED
Our mission is to implement a self sustaining web forum delivering professional education
and public information on cord blood therapy.
• Connect and provide comprehensive, interdisciplinary training for the many actors involved in the field of
cord blood technology.
• Facilitate access to high-level training at a time, place and language convenient to the user.
• Train trainers and provide European academic institutions with training tools for use within their own institutions.
• Improve the understanding and implementation of ethical and regulatory issues, including the European Tissue Directive.
• Spread best practice to all European centres through the dissemination of information on quality
standards, quality control and accreditation procedures (JACIE/NETCORD, Good Manufacturing Practice).
• Promote the development of accredited continuing education through EHA-CME.
• Contribute to pan-European harmonization of professional competence in the field of Cord Blood Technology
and transplantation.
• Promote professional mobility in the field throughout the European Union and its associated states.
• Contribute to accelerate translational research, in the interest of patients.
• Support the development of the European biotechnology industry.
• Inform regional/national/European policy decision-makers.
• Develop a reliable source of information for the general public.
• Impact on the quality and international visibility of the European education and research areas.