Medical societies have a social responsibility to disseminate knowledge and inform health authorities on threats to public health posed by various diseases. Advocacy for health protection programmes and for medical research funding is now embedded into the missions of most scientific societies. To promote kidney research funding in Europe, the European Renal Association - European Dialysis and Transplant Association (ERA-EDTA), rather than acting as an individual society advocating for the fight against kidney disease, has actively helped to create an alliance of national associations centred on kidney diseases, the European Kidney Health Alliance (EKHA), and joined the Biomedical Alliance (BMA). The ERA-EDTA is fully committed to supporting its working groups (WGs) and consortia of its members to allow them to produce valuable kidney research. The framing and formalization of projects, and the regulatory issues related to submission to the European Commission, are complex. To help WGs to gain expert advice from agencies with specific know-how, the ERA-EDTA has adopted a competitive approach. The best research projects proposed by WGs and consortia of other European investigators will receive seed funding to cover the costs of consultancy by expert agencies. Via its broader platforms, the EKHA and the BMA, the ERA-EDTA will strive towards broader recognition of kidney disease and related clusters of non-communicable diseases, by European and national agencies, as major threats to the qualities of life of their populations and their economies.

1st Department of Internal Medicine 3rd Faculty of Medicine Charles University Prague Czechia

CNR IFC c o Ospedali Riuniti Reggio Calabria Italy

Department of Clinical Epidemiology Leiden University Medical Center Leiden The Netherlands

Department of Internal Medicine Ghent University Hospital Ghent Belgium

Department of Medical Informatics Academic Medical Center Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute University of Amsterdam Amsterdam The Netherlands

Department of Nephrology and Renal Transplantation Patras University Hospital Patras Greece

Department of Nephrology Dialysis Nutrition Centre Hospitalier Lyon Sud Pierre Bénite Cedex France

Department of Nephrology Medical Faculty University of Skopje Skopje Northern Republic of Macedonia

Department of Nephrology University Medical Centre Groningen University Hospital Groningen Groningen The Netherlands

Department of Renal Medicine Karolinska University Hospital Stockholm Sweden

Department of Translational Medical Sciences University Campania 'Luigi Vanvitelli' Naples Italy

Division of Nephrology Ambroise Paré University Hospital APHP Boulogne Billancourt Paris and Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health INSERM UMRS 1018 Team 5 University Paris Saclay and University Versailles Saint Quentin Villejuif France

Division of Nephrology Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik 4 Klinikum der Universität Munich Germany

Division of Nephrology University of Würzburg Würzburg Germany

Dutch Kidney Foundation Bussum The Netherlands

European Kidney Health Alliance Brussels Belgium

Glasgow Renal and Transplant Unit Queen Elizabeth University Hospital Glasgow UK

Institute of Physiology Switzerland and National Center of Competence in Research NCCR Kidney University of Zurich Zurich Switzerland

Internal Medicine 4 Renal and Hypertensive Diseases Saarland University Medical Centre Homburg Saar Germany

Nephrology Department Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron Nephrology Research Group Vall d'Hebron Research Institute Barcelona Spain

Nephrology Section Department of Nephrology University Medical Center Utrecht The Netherlands

Renal Division ASST Santi Paolo E Carlo Department of Health Sciences University of Milan Milan Italy

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