The Society has a small amount of money available to support special projects which stimulate development and research in General Practice in Europe. Support a proper balance within family medicine in relation to prevention, diagnosis, cure and care. Raise the awareness of the responsibility of Family Medicine both to individual patients and also to society as a whole. To this end, meetings lasting for two and half days are organised twice yearly in different European locations. Participants can present their work for fifteen minutes with a further fifteen minutes of critical discussion from the other participants.
Special emphasis is placed on discussion of development of research methodologies.
It also organises research methods training courses. The aim of the group is to stimulate quality development in general practice. This is the youngest of the three important European network organisations. The Journal is a peer reviewed scientific journal, which is expected to be indexed. This section is also open for letters from the subscribers.