The Portuguese Hub, STAND4KIDS, is hosted by the Association for Research and Development of the Faculty of Medicine (AIDFM), a non-profit and public benefit association that promotes biomedical research at the Faculty of Medicine of the Universidade de Lisboa and it has the Portuguese Society of Pediatrics (SPP), and Faculty of Medicine of the Universidade de Lisboa (FMUL) as Third Parties. The STAND4Kids also work in close collaboration with CETERA an Academic Consulting Research Organization (CRO) and an autonomous department of AIDFM.