Pooling Knowledge to Fight Corona: The Story of the Medicines Patent Pool
Pooling Knowledge: Private Medicine vs. Public Health?
The COVID-19 crisis marks a critical moment for medicines: how to go from a capitalist logic to a system that is driven by the needs of the public and the health of the people?
Costa Rica Is Right: We Need a Global Coronavirus Knowledge Pool
We Need a Global Coronavirus Knowledge Pool
Ensure Access to Covid-19 Treatments!
Corona medicines resulting from public investments must be free for all people
This Week We Vote
Commons Network spent the last two years working on a programme called ‘Commons for Europe’. It was our way of streamlining our work in different fields into one coherent ‘campaign’, focused on…
The Top 10 Commons Network Publications: 2017-2019
It’s almost summer, so here is a selection of the ten most impactful publications (in no particular order) that we released in the past two years. 1. What can commoners do…
Pharma’s Other Futures: Alternatives to Unaffordable Medicines
Commons Network is proud to invite you all to a special event in Amsterdam about the new ideas that we have to tackle the rising prices of medicines. Drug prices are getting…
Defend the precautionary principle: remove so-called “innovation principle” from Horizon Europe
This Wednesday December 12th the European Parliament will vote on the Horizon Europe, EU’s largest scientific program. This is the first time the “innovation principle” could enter an EU legal text without…
How To Ensure Public Investment Makes An Impact On Society
This week, Commons Network and many others from the Alliance for Affordable Medicines and Responsible R & D released a new call to action that appeals to lawmakers all over Europe and…
Public Return on Public Spending: H2020 Needs Strong Public Interests Conditions and Incentives
The Societal Challenges pillar of Horizon 2020 plays an important role in reinforcing Europeans citizens’ confidence in the European Union. Through investing in innovation that directly improves people’s lives, such as health,…