About Eurotransplant

Fact sheet

The Eurotransplant International Foundation, with its office in Leiden, The Netherlands, supports the Eurotransplant community to fulfill its mission:

"To be a service organisation for transplant candidates through the collaborating transplant programs within the organisation. This service organisation provides services to transplant centres and their associated tissue typing laboratories and donor hospitals in its member states".

Currently the Eurotransplant region consists of Austria, Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Croatia. To produce its services, Eurotransplant manages the following three core processes:

Allocation,
Algorithm development,
Registry.

Annual statistics related to organ allocation
Number of new patients on waiting list	9,300
Number of transplanted organs	6,600 (kidney, liver, pancreas, heart, lung)
% of organs exchanged cross-border	20% (outside Eurotransplant: 2%)

Annual statistics related to algorithm development
Scientists involved in advisory committees	77

General statistics
Population Eurotransplant service area	124,5 million inhabitants
Board of management	15 members Democratic representation of national transplant societies of each member state. Chairmen of each organ advisory committee.
General assembly	178 members
Number of advisory committees	9 Of which 4 organ specific (kidney, liver/intestine, pancreas, heart/lung.
Year of founding	1967
Number of employees	77
Annual budget	5,6 million euros