Global Research in Paediatrics (GRIP) is a European Commission funded program which aims to stimulate and facilitate the development and safe use of medicine in children.

EuPFI and USPFI are working together on the common project to build a database gathering safety data on excipients used in paediatric formulations.

The International Consortium for Innovation and Quality in Pharmaceutical Development (IQ) is a technically-focused organization of pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies with a mission of advancing science-based and scientifically-driven standards and regulations for pharmaceutical and biotechnology products worldwide. In January 2014 IQ joined the European Pediatric Formulation Initiative (EuPFI) to further efforts to promote global alignment on pediatric product development. EuPFI is a consortium that has been instrumental in driving science and science-based standardization for pediatric formulation development. Membership in EuPFI allows IQ and EuPFI to join forces in addressing a topic with public health significance.

Excipients are used to facilitate the manufacturing of dosage forms and maintain the stability of medicines in the face of chemical and microbial challenges. The lack of neonatal safety information exposes these patients to the risk of specific adverse reactions unexpected from adult experience.

The ESNEE project, "Strategy for the extensive review of the literature on excipient toxicities" aimed to develop and validate a systematic and standardised search strategy for collecting relevant information about excipients.

EuPFI in collaboration with its network of partners secured a £660,000 grant from the Technology Strategy Board, the UK’s innovation agency, towards a £1 million project aimed at accelerating paediatric formulation development through smart design and predictive science.

The consortium aimed to address the need for improved speed, cost and quality of paediatric formulation by drawing on the combined expertise of its members. The goal was to deliver a novel, commercially available, regulatory-approved platform to identify the most appropriate delivery strategy for paediatric medicines.

The EMA acts as a continuous observer of EuPFI's research activities.

The strategic objective of EPTRI WP 8 is to create a coordinated EU paediatric formulation platform, as part of a Paediatric Infrastructure, bringing together the major European research groups/networks (such as European Pediatric Formulation Initiatives (EuPFI) to join forces and ultimately, to respond in a concerted way to scientific questions in order to tackle the challenges in developing paediatric formulations and to increase its visibility and impact. The EuPFI has collaborated with EPTRI and working on adminsitration survey as part of this workpackage