The Network was approved by the ESF Network Group in November 2001 for a three-year period.
The Chairman was Dr. Jacques Sizun from Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Brest.

The dossier contains: proposal; research assessments; final report and evaluation.
It contains general correspondence: "A European developmental care survey study protocol"; "Unit policy questionnaire"; plan for years 2003-2004; proposal for a Network on Investigation of pediatric health products; correspondence on the management of the Network and on the themes discussed during the Network; correspondence on the organisation of meetings, conferences and workshops.

Documents on meetings: report, programme and attached documents of the first meeting of the Coordination Committee, held in Strasbourg, on 15 March 2002; NIDCAP trial meeting, held in Oxford, on 7 April 2004; minutes of the meeting of the Coordination Committee, held in Stockholm, on 20 Sep 2004; scientific report for 2004.

Documents on conferences: international conference on "Infant Development in Neonatal Intensive Care", held in London, on 13-14 March 2003; report, speaker abstracts of the second international conference on "Infant Development in Neonatal Intensive Care", held in London,on 3-4 March 2005.

Documents concerning workshops: report, list of participants of the workshop held in Tours, on 12-13 Dec 2000;list of participants, programme, scientific contributes with PowerPoint of the workshop on "Clinical methods for assessing perinatal and child development", held in Brussels, on 30 Nov 2002; report, transcript of proceedings of the third workshop, held in London, on 15 March 2003; report of the fourth workshop on "The way forward", held in London, on 5 March 2005.

Main topics discussed are: biological factors related to mortality and morbidity; impact of environmental factors on neurodevelopmental outcome; educational and economical conditions; developmental care.

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