www.worldkidneyday.org to educate the wider public on the serious implications and consequences of chronic kidney disease and its associated cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, is the first step towards early detection and prevention.

Registered Charity No. 1060134

The ERA-EDTA registries are a collection of demographic and clinical data on patients with end stage renal disease.

www.era-edta.org/registries.htm

www.era-edta-reg.org/index.jsp

www.nephro-quest.org

The ERA-EDTA Registry based NephroQUEST project aims at a European wide consensus on the selection and standardisation of quality of care indicators in end-stage renal disease and at further stimulating their availability.

www.genecure.eu

The applied GENomic StratEgies for Treatment and Prevention of Cardiovascular Death in Uraemia and End-stage REnal Disease (GENECURE) project is a Specific Targeted Research or Innovation Project (STREP) that is funded by the European Commission under the Sixth Framework Programme.

The partners include 8 research institutes and 2 companies in 6 countries. The GENECURE project officially started on January 1, 2007.

www.syskid.eu

SYSKiD is a large-scale integrating European research project, aimed at understanding chronic kidney disease in the context of diabetes and hypertension. The project started on January 1, 2010 and is driven by a European Union grant of EUR 11,8 million from Framework Programme 7 (FP 7) and a total project volume of close to EUR 16 million.