Rebecca Taylor who is a MEP representing the region that includes Leeds paid a visit 27 September. Aside from her regional interest, Rebecca Taylor has a personal interest in the topic as she is active as a reviewer of EU legislation on medical devices.

Commenting after the visit, Rebecca said “It was great to be able to see for myself how EU funding is making a real difference on the ground. This is vital research bringing real benefits, both for the individuals who get better quality joint replacements, but also for the region, which gets vital investment in high skill jobs”

Rebecca met Professor Anne Neville and the team from the LifeLongJoints project at the University of Leeds who showed her around the lab facilities and explained the value of a European collaboration in this field.

For further information see Rebecca Taylor’s blog www.rebeccataylor.eu
and the Press Release of the Faculty of Engineering at Leeds www.engineering.leeds.ac.uk

LLJ is a very good example of a Framework 7 project that also points the way to handling the focus on innovation foreseen by Horizon 2020. Recently Monica Schofield has been using the project as a case study for training purposes at the Nordic University Administrators (NUAS) conference in Kuopio Finland and at the Nordic Science Conference in Luleå Sweden.