U-CARE Venue

U-CARE arranges the U-CARE Venue annually, which serves as a meeting place for participants from various parts of the world and different disciplines. During this two-day event, attendees engage in presentations and seminars.

U-CARE Venue 2025

The conference took place on 13-14 October at the University Main Building in Uppsala, with the theme ‘Smarter Science – How can we conduct high-quality healthcare research more efficiently?’.

This year, we explored how to make healthcare research more efficient through our key themes:

• Bridging healthcare and research
• Innovative trial design
• Operational efficiency
• Systemic efficiency

Programme

See the programme for U-CARE Venue 2025 pdf, 415 kB.

Presentations

Benjamin Speich, "Trial efficiency: Costs, hurdles, and innovations" pdf, 2 MB.

Philip Pallmann, "Towards more efficient clinical trials with adaptive designs" pdf, 3 MB.

Marcus Bendtsen, "Using Bayesian sequential designs to efficiently estimate the effects of digital behaviour interventions" pdf, 4 MB.

Niklaus Labhardt, "Trials within cohorts: Practice examples from Lesotho and Switzerland" pdf, 6 MB.

Cristin Lind, "Training for patients and public contributors in clinical trial methodology" pdf, 1 MB.

Kirsty Sprange, "Efficient trials: Investing in people" pdf, 2 MB.

Marie Österberg, "Prioritizing evidence gaps using the James Lind Alliance method" pdf, 4 MB.

Marco Seeber, "The evolution of the scientific publishing and its drivers" pdf, 2 MB.

Angeliki Adamaki, "Making FAIR and Open Science work: Navigating policies and guidelines in practice" pdf, 12 MB.

Stella Jacobson, "Research excellence, relevance, and impact: A funder's perspective" pdf, 899 kB.

Shaun Treweek, "How to make a randomised trial informative, relevant, and useful" pdf, 2 MB.

Post conference report

Read the post conference report for U-CARE Venue 2025 pdf, 2 MB.

Contact

Do you have any questions about U-CARE Venue? Please contact Ida Österman Menander.