15/07/2022 (Agence Europe) – The new Joint Industrial Cooperation Forum was held for the first time on Wednesday 13 July and focused on the lessons learned from the Covid-19 pandemic. The main role of this new Forum will be to identify possible bottlenecks in the supply chains and provide recommendations to remedy them where possible, explains the European Commission in a press release. It will also seek to contribute to industry matchmaking events with the aim of strengthening the overall resilience of medical supply chains. This Joint Forum was set up by the Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA), together with the Directorate-General for the Internal Market, Industry and Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW). Nineteen organisations were selected to participate in the Forum following a call for applications published on 28 March 2022, the European institution recalls. (PH)