Organisation

PROBE’s governance ensures transparent, collaborative decision-making across its 39 partners, with Steering and Executive Committees overseeing strategic direction, Work Package Leaders driving execution, and Stakeholder Councils and the Scientific Advisory Board safeguarding compliance, patient-centricity, and ensuring uptake of project outputs.

The General Assembly is the governing body including representatives of all thirty-nine (39) partners.

The Executive committee is a small operational group consisting of the Project Coordinator, the Project Leader the co-Project leader and the PMO. Its primary role is to ensure the smooth operation of the Action by aligning efforts towards project objectives.
The steering Committee is an operational committee composed of the Project Leader, Project Coordinator, Work Package leaders, the Executive Committee and the PMO. This committee is responsible for the overall execution of the project, alignment across all Work Packages and decision making.
Each Work Package is co-led by a public and private partner, and completes the agreed upon deliverables, while promoting collaboration.
Project Management office – The Project Management Office (PMO) is coordinating all project management aspects, supporting the project overall.

The Project Management Office (PMO) is coordinating all project management aspects, supporting the project overall.

The Scientific Advisory Board (SAB), serves as an external advisory body consisting of experts in the field, offering expertise in scientific, technical, and regulatory matters.
The Patients in Partnership Council (PPC) is composed of experts in the OA patient experience and will advise the Consortium with the aim of achieving meaningful involvement and engagement and establishing a communication route to patients and the general public within Europe and beyond.

The Health Care Providers Council (HCPC), through the inclusion of representatives from European healthcare professional networks and organisations, this external council will advise PROBE and ensure connection with and the integration of HCP voices across PROBE activities.

The Ethics & Privacy Council (EPC) will ensure a diverse, ethical, and GDPR-compliant framework for the set-up of PROBE Councils and data access, privacy, and use implementation and maintenance. This expert Council will fill and external advisory role to PROBE.

The external, advisory role of the Regulatory & HTA Council (RHTAC) is to facilitate engagement with regulatory agencies (EMA + FDA) and HTA bodies to implement advice, provide opportunities for synergy, and align project efforts with the rules and frameworks for the approval of novel endpoints.

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