Supporting the Cefic Long-range Research Initiative (LRI)

Since the establishment of the Cefic Long-range Research Initiative (LRI) programme in 1998, ECETOC has been a partner organisation. In the early days, all requests for proposal (RfPs) were written following ECETOC STOTS (state of the science reviews).  As LRI has developed, so the role of ECETOC has evolved.  It is now slightly different, but ECETOC's scientific input remains a key to the programme's success.

Within the LRI, ECETOC has the responsibility of maintaining three 'core teams' (health effects, human exposure & risk assessment and environment), consisting of industry scientists, who manage the scientific evaluation of applications for funding, recommend the best research proposals and monitor of the progress of selected LRI projects.
In particular they are responsible for the:

• Development of topics for research to be considered by the LRI Strategy Implementation Group (SIG).  (A core team may organise a workshop with academic, government and industry scientists for this purpose.)
• Drafting of 'requests for proposals' (RfPs) based on ideas submitted by Cefic and ECETOC stakeholders in the LRI process.
• Setting up selection teams of industry and external experts to choose the best research proposals in response to published RfPs and making recommendations to LRI SIG concerning the funding of the proposals.
• Establishment of scientific liaison with the selected institutions and 'monitoring' the scientific quality and progress of the projects.