The 1st General Assembly of LifeWatch ERIC, which took place in Seville (Spain) during 8-9 May 2017, elected the interim members of the statutory bodies which will manage the Consortium until the formal ones will be appointed.

Later on during the same month, on the 23rd of May, the official ceremony during which the ERIC plate was awarded to the Lifewatch community took place in Seville. The European Commission Director-General for Research & Innovation, Robert Jan-Smits, awarded the LifeWatch ERIC Plate to the Spanish Secretary of State for Research, Development & Innovation, Carmen Vela.

LifeWatch-ERIC is a European Research Infrastructure Consortium composed by eight founding member states and three common facilities aiming to support a long term strategy for the sustainability of research.