January 16, 2025
CHESSMEN Project Management Board meets in Rome
The project management board, including the leads of all work packages (1-8), convened on 16 January 2025 in Rome to review ongoing activities and deliverables of CHESSMEN Joint Action.
The meeting was hosted by AIFA, the Italian Medicines Agency, which leads work package 1.
Board members have been actively engaged in preparing the intermediate technical and financial reports.
The CHESSMEN project has now reached month 24, and many of the key deliverables have been successfully approved. Consortium members agreed to enhance communication efforts around various deliverables, such the report on root causes of medicines shortages, best practices for managing and mitigating shortages, and strategies for prevention and mitigation.
Initiatives like the Insync webinar, initiated last December by the Italian, Spanish and Portuguese authorities, and study visits will continue, with some members volunteering to take the lead. Additionally, meetings with national stakeholders to present the project’s conclusions and achievements are to be organised, supporting dissemination and stakeholder engagement efforts.
The final conference of the CHESSMEN joint action is scheduled to take place in January 2026.