To fund this part of the QUEST initiative, the ERA-EDTA submitted a specific project to the European Commission in 2005. This first project was much appreciated, but it did not receive a score sufficiently high to be financially awarded. We have built upon this useful experience and submitted another grant application in 2006 with a project named Nephro-QUEST to clearly point out the renal aspect of the project.

To our great satisfaction Nephro-QUEST has been selected for funding by the European Commission. Currently, we are in the process of negotiations with the EC, but we feel that receiving a high score and being selected for funding is a great achievement for the ERA-EDTA Registry and all national and regional registries participating in this grant application. The recognition of the importance of our work by external experts is an extra boost to further strengthen our collaboration at the European level. We feel this is undoubtedly a big step forward for the QUEST initiative and we are determined to further set the stage for the quality improvement programs that European nephrologists dream of.

Carmine Zoccali, ERA-EDTA Registry Chairman and Kitty Jager, ERA-EDTA Registry Managing Director