2011 Anniversary Yearbook - EUFEPS today and history

16. EUFEPS on the Global Scene
Since its inception the EUFEPS leadership has realised that a strong European presence
on the global scene would be a benefit to the EUFEPS membership; ‘the European voice
should be heard’. That is why, over the years, EUFEPS played an active role on the global
pharmaceutical sciences ‘scene’. In the following text only interactions of EUFEPS with
international organisations and national organisations outside Europe are mentioned. The
intention is not to give an exhaustive overview. It should be seen as a sampling of EUFEPS
activities in a global perspective and EUFEPS willingness to engage in answering global
questions.
FIP
In the EUFEPS statutes a special mentioning is made to the International Pharmaceutical
Federation (FIP). This international platform for pharmacy practice and pharmaceutical sciences
is mentioned is an observer to the EUFEPS Council meeting. EUFEPS has played
an active and stimulating role in the scientific wing of the FIP (Board of Pharmaceutical Sciences,
BPS). Even more so, EUFEPS joined FIP as Member Organisation in 2008 and by
this became the first Member Organisation of FIP/BPS with a world regional (Europe) coverage,
instead of a national basis. EUFEPS and FIP worked together on different occasions,
including in organising joint conferences. A prime example is the Pharmaceutical Sciences
World Conference (PSWC) series. Since the first PSWC in 2000 in San Francisco, CA USA,
EUFEPS has fully supported this FIP led initiative, where pharmaceutical scientist from all
over the world meet. The follow up PSWC conferences (Tokyo, 2004), in particular Amsterdam
(2007) and New Orleans (2010), all enjoyed European programmatic input through
EUFEPS.
AAPS, ACCP, ISSX, APSTJ and JSSX
Several other organisations worldwide collaborate on a regular or temporary basis with
EUFEPS. Among those are the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS),
the American College of Clinical Pharmacology (ACCP), and the International Society for
the Study of Xenobiotics (ISSX). Over the last 20 years co-sponsored conferences were
run on a regular basis. Examples are meetings in the EUFEPS Basel Conference Series,
the Groundbreaking Workshop on ‘Assuring Quality and Performance of Sustained and
Controlled Release Parenterals’ also in Basel, and the World Conference on Drug Absorption
Transport and Delivery (WCDATD), by EUFEPS in 2001 in Copenhagen and in 2005 in
Barcelona – and aiming for Edinburgh in 2012. In this context the longstanding interactions
and collaborations with the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technology of Japan
(APSTJ), the Japanese Society for the Study of Xenobiotics (JSSX), and the, newly established,
Asian Federation for Pharmaceutical Sciences (AFPS) must also be mentioned.
ISPE
The International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE) has been EUFEPS’ partner
for a number of years in the field of Process Analytical Technology (PAT) and Quality by
Design (QbD). ISPE Nordic and ISPE Europe cosponsored a number of successful conferences
set up by the EUFEPS Network in this field.
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