{"id":2913,"date":"2017-05-25T13:34:55","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T12:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcamps.com\/?p=2913"},"modified":"2017-05-25T13:34:55","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T12:34:55","slug":"agencia-europea-de-medicamentos-barcelona-is-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcamps.com\/eng\/agencia-europea-de-medicamentos-barcelona-is-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"New headquarters of the European Medicines Agency: \"Barcelona is ready\"."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a result of Brexit, the <strong>European Medicines Agency<\/strong> (EMA) will have to relocate its headquarters to a Member State of the European Union. Although the UK\u2019s withdrawal is due to take place in approximately two years\u2019 time, a date has already been set for the selection of the Agency\u2019s new headquarters: October 2017.<\/p>\n<p>This week, the Minister for Health, <strong>Dolors Montserrat<\/strong>, has travelled to Brussels to present Barcelona\u2019s bid. Whilst there, he first met with the Secretary-General of the Council of the European Union, J<strong>Eppe Tranholm-Mikkelsen<\/strong>. And with the European Commissioner for Health, <strong>Vytenis Andriukaitis<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Under the slogan \u201c<em>Barcelona is ready \/ Barcelona is ready \/ Barcelona est\u00e0 llesta<\/em>\u201d, the minister has advocated for the creation of a new headquarters in Barcelona. According to Montserrat, Barcelona has the \u201cbest scientific, hospital, pharmaceutical and biomedical research community in Europe. Furthermore, it has a wide range of accommodation options to cater for the thousands of researchers who visit the Agency every year. In addition to Spain, more than 15 EU member states have put themselves forward as candidates.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Selection criteria for the new headquarters of the European Medicines Agency <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The European Union has published the criteria that will be taken into account when selecting the new headquarters. And, of course, there is a certain degree of consensus that Barcelona would meet them with flying colours.<\/p>\n<p>The selection process will take the following aspects into account:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Quality of life<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Availability of suitable premises<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Life Sciences and Healthcare Industry <\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>International connectivity and tourism offerings<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The labour market and access to education and healthcare<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_2914\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mcamps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Barcelona.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2914\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2914\" src=\"https:\/\/mcamps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Barcelona.jpg\" alt=\"Barcelona: \u00bfnueva sede de la Agencia Europea de Medicamentos? \" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mcamps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Barcelona.jpg 800w, https:\/\/mcamps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Barcelona-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mcamps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Barcelona-768x480.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2914\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barcelona: the new headquarters of the European Medicines Agency?<\/p><\/div>\n<h3><strong>What do officials at the European Medicines Agency think?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ema.europa.eu\/ema\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EMA<\/a> has carried out an internal survey of 687 of its 890 employees. The fact is that the organisation\u2019s management is somewhat concerned about the move to new premises. In fact, in a recent interview with <strong>Guido Rasi<\/strong>, for the <strong>Financial Times<\/strong>, the EMA\u2019s executive director explained that up to 50% of staff could leave if they did not like the city to which they were being transferred.<\/p>\n<p>In this regard, the internal survey shows very encouraging results for the Spanish bid. It is the preferred choice of the largest number of EMA staff, and as many as 78% would be willing to relocate to Barcelona. The Dutch and Austrian bids follow closely behind, with 75% and 71% respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>leading candidate cities<\/strong> The cities currently in the running to host the EMA\u2019s new headquarters are Barcelona, Amsterdam, Paris, Copenhagen, Stockholm and Vienna.<\/p>\n<h3>A history lesson: Barcelona\u2019s bid in 1992<\/h3>\n<p>When the <strong>European Medicines Agency<\/strong>, several bids were also put forward. And even back then, Barcelona was one of the leading contenders. In the end, it came second, just behind London, the EMA\u2019s current headquarters. We\u2019ll have to wait and see what happens this time round.<\/p>\n<p>From <strong>GTF M. Camps<\/strong>, we are backing Barcelona\u2019s bid. We are a city that is becoming a global leader in health research. And we believe that the city fully meets, point by point, all the requirements set by the European Union. Barcelona is ready.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Como consecuencia del Brexit, la Agencia Europea de Medicamentos (EMA) deber\u00e1 trasladar su sede a algun estado que sea miembro de la Uni\u00f3n Europea. Aunque la desconexi\u00f3n del Reino Unido est\u00e1 prevista en aproximadamente dos a\u00f1os, la selecci\u00f3n de la nueva sede de la Agencia ya tiene fecha: octubre de 2017. Esta semana la ministra [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,371],"tags":[708,95,712,710],"class_list":["post-2913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noticias","category-curiosidades","tag-agencia-europea-de-medicamentos","tag-barcelona","tag-candidatura","tag-ema"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcamps.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcamps.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcamps.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcamps.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcamps.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcamps.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcamps.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcamps.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcamps.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcamps.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}