Implementation of Secondments across the EU4HIVCURE consortium

Summary
The embedded nature of our secondments , which are at the core of our collaborative strategy, will enable us to go beyond the simple association of a clinician with a biomedical researcher. Indeed, the role of the secondee is not only to learn and implement a given technique or experimental approach but to act as the catalyst of the collaboration. Implementation: In order to ensure that the quality of knowledge sharing is maintained at the highest possible level, a number of specific measures will be undertaken: Explicit agreements will be drawn in advance of the secondments, to document the learning and research objectives, to highlight the interdependence, joint ownership, and collective responsibility for the secondment and research project. In addition they will include publication authorships, IPs, Patents and/or non-disclosure agreements. Principal Ivestigators (PI’s) from all consortium members are committed to provide an environment favorable to knowledge transfer and to maximise the outputs of the