About the network
The European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Network (EARS-Net) is the largest publicly funded system for antimicrobial resistance (AMR) surveillance in Europe. Data from EARS-Net play an important role in raising awareness at the political level, among public health officials, in the scientific community, and among the general public. Public access to descriptive data (maps, graphs and tables) are available through the ECDC Surveillance Atlas of Infectious Diseases; more detailed analyses are presented in annual reports and scientific publications.
The objectives of EARS-Net are to:
- collect comparable, representative and accurate AMR data;
- analyse temporal and spatial trends of AMR in Europe;
- provide timely AMR data for policy decisions;
- encourage the implementation, maintenance and improvement of national AMR surveillance programmes; and
- support national systems in their efforts to improve diagnostic accuracy by offering annual external quality assessments (EQA).
Organisation
- List of national organisations participating in EARS-Net: An updated list of national institutions and organisations participating in EARS-Net can be found in the latest EARS-Net Annual Report.
- EARS-Net management and coordination: EARS-Net is managed and coordinated by ECDC, supported by a coordination committee composed of experts selected from the appointed disease-specific contact points.
Institutions and organisations participating in EARS-Net
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Austria |
Federal Ministry of Health |
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Medical University Vienna |
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Elisabethinen Hospital, Linz |
www.elisabethinen.or.at |
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Belgium |
Scientific Institute of Public Health |
wwww.wiv-isp.be/Nsih/ |
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Bulgaria |
Alexander University Hospital, Sofia |
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National Center of Infectious and Parasitic Diseases |
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Croatia |
Reference Center for Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance, Ministry of Health |
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Zagreb University Hospital for Infectious Diseases 'Dr. Fran Mihaljević' |
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Cyprus |
Microbiology Department, Nicosia General Hospital |
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Czech Republic |
National Institute of Public Health |
www.szu.cz |
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National Reference Laboratory for Antibiotics |
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Denmark |
Statens Serum Institut, Danish Study Group for Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance (DANRES) |
www.danmap.org |
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Estonia |
Health Board |
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East-Tallinn Central Hospital |
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Tartu University Hospital |
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Finland |
National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finnish Hospital Infection Program (SIRO) and Bacterial infections unit |
www.thl.fi/siro |
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Finnish Study Group for Antimicrobial Resistance (FiRe) |
www.finres.fi |
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France |
Santé Publique France, the French National Public Health Agency |
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Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital |
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French National Observatory for the Epidemiology of Bacterial Resistance to Antimicrobials (ONERBA): Azay-Résistance, Île-de-France and Réussir networks |
www.onerba.org |
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National Reference Centre for Pneumococci (CNRP) |
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Germany |
Robert Koch Institute |
www.rki.de |
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Greece |
Hellenic Pasteur Institute |
www.mednet.gr/whonet |
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National School of Public Health |
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National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Medical School |
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Hungary |
National Centre for Epidemiology |
www.oek.hu |
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Iceland |
National University Hospital of Iceland |
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Centre for Health Security and Infectious Disease Control |
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Ireland |
Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC) |
www.hpsc.ie |
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Italy |
National Institute of Health |
www.iss.it |
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Latvia |
Disease Prevention and Control Center of Latvia |
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Lithuania |
National Public Health Surveillance Laboratory |
www.nvspl.lt |
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Institute of Hygiene |
www.hi.lt |
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Luxembourg |
National Health Laboratory |
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Microbiology Laboratory, Luxembourg’s Hospital Centre |
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Malta |
Mater Dei Hospital, Msida |
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Netherlands |
National Institute for Public Health and the Environment |
www.rivm.nl |
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Norway |
University Hospital of North Norway |
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Norwegian Institute of Public Health |
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St. Olav University Hospital, Trondheim |
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Poland |
National Medicines Institute |
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Department of Epidemiology and Clinical Microbiology |
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National Reference Centre for Susceptibility Testing |
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Portugal |
National Institute of Health Dr. Ricardo Jorge |
www.insarj.pt |
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Ministry of Health Directorate-General of Health |
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Romania |
National Institute of Public Health |
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Slovakia |
National Reference Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance |
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Public Health Authority of the Slovak Republic |
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Regional Public Health Authority Banska Bystrica |
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Slovenia |
National Institute of Public Health |
www.nijz.si |
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Medical faculty, University of Ljubljana |
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National Laboratory of Health, Environment and Food |
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Spain |
Health Institute Carlos lll |
www.isciii.es |
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National Centre for Microbiology |
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Sweden |
The Public Health Agency of Sweden |
www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se |
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United Kingdom |
Public Health England |
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/public-health-england |
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Health Protection Scotland |
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Public Health Agency Northern Ireland |
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History
The European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System (EARSS), established in 1998, is the predecessor of EARS-Net. EARSS was initially funded by the European Commission’s Directorate General for Health and Consumer Affairs and the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sports. The network steadily grew and involved an increasing number of European countries. On 1 January 2010, the administration and coordination of EARSS was transferred to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). The network was renamed to ‘European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Network (EARS-Net)’.