BE READY

The six main objectives of BE READY

• Engage with all prospective partners of the expected future Partnership to support alignment on its scope, common objectives, governance and ways of working/operationalisation;
• Elaborate an innovative and visionary Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda for pandemic preparedness ensuring a cross-cutting, interdisciplinary Global Health and One Health approach;
• Consolidate the future European Partnership on Pandemic Preparedness;
• Ensure complementarities, coordination and collaboration with the European Commission (especially with DG-RTD, DG-SANTE and HERA);
• Involve relevant stakeholders and initiatives in the area of pandemic preparedness, ensuring collaboration and coordination, and avoiding duplication (e.g. GloPID-R, WHO R&D blueprint, ACT-Accelerator, G7/G20 Health WGs, etc);
• Raise awareness of the importance of increased pandemic preparedness both outside and during epidemic/pandemic episodes

2025 : the BE READY PLUS project

BE READY PLUS is an initiative funded by Horizon Europe to strengthen Europe’s pandemic preparedness.

This one-year project builds on the success of the initial BE READY initiative and aims to broaden the participation of EU Member States and associated countries:

• The Partnership now includes 5 additional countries, bringing the total to 21;
• The number of partners has also increased, with 31 organisations and public institutions now involved.

ANRS Emerging infectious diseases is responsible for the overall coordination of the consortium.

BE READY PLUS’s objective is to establish the operational framework for the future European partnership dedicated to pandemic preparedness, ensuring an efficient start-up and paving the way for future developments.

In particular, the key objectives of BE READY PLUS add to those of the existing BE READY consortium:

• Preparing for the launch of joint transnational calls: putting in place the infrastructure needed to rapidly fund relevant collaborative research;
• Strengthening research networks: setting up networks of clinical study sites ready to respond rapidly, in liaison with basic and pre-clinical research infrastructures.

On 8 and 9 April 2024, the final BE READY conference and the launch of BE READY PLUS took place in Brussels. Read the press release to find out more.

The BE READY PLUS closing conference took place on 4 and 5 November 2025 in Athens. This event was an opportunity for partners to take stock of the project’s achievements and prepare for the launch of its successor, the European Partnership for Pandemic Preparedness – BE READY NOW, which is scheduled to start in January 2026. Read the press release here.

Coordinated by ANRS MIE with the support of Inserm Transfert, BE READY PLUS established a solid foundation in 2025 for Europe’s long-term pandemic preparedness through the collaboration of 30 partner institutions from 20 countries. Its legacy will be directly integrated into BE READY NOW, ensuring that Europe moves from planning to action, better equipped, better connected and ready to respond quickly to future health threats.