The Main Mission
Purpose of the Working Group

ELSA WG aims to continue the flowing and sharing of information already existing in the community and provide a fruitful environment for promoting cooperation and collaborative initiatives. In addition, WG-ELSA activities will be aimed at the definition and formalization of some of the processes and methods exploited in the application of EM technologies in life sciences to allow a fair comparison of results and achievements. This overarching goal will be pursued by defining shared standards, e.g. phantoms for testing and measurement protocols and implementing a shared and accessible database with numerical data, algorithms, protocols. The development of such agreed standards will ultimately benefit the whole community. In the long term, this is expected to accelerate the pathway from research bench to clinical translation.

The WG will also coordinate activities within EurAAP that are relevant to all members (e.g. organisation of Convened Sessions, and/or Scientific and Technical workshops, and technically supporting conferences in areas of interest to the community).

Ultimately, WG-ELSA aims to provide a reference to the broad community of researchers working on EM technologies for life sciences within and beyond EurAAP.