During the first reporting period of QUANDHIP (1st August 2011 – 31st January 2013) the envisaged activities have been carried out successfully along the 8 Work Packages (WPs).

Beyond coordination, dissemination and evaluation (horizontal WPs), bacterial and viral External Quality Assurance Exercises (EQAE) have been carried out, the repositories could be extended, training courses on special selected topics were performed by partners for partners, a biosafety/biosecurity check list has been composed and will further be developed, and a first draft of the planned guideline for the coordination of response to highly infectious cross-border pathogen outbreaks was produced.