On 12 May 2015 at the Latvian Presidency event on Infectious Diseases in Riga, participants debated the efforts on infectious diseases and AMR research in the Baltic area. JPIAMR’s Laura Marin from the International Secretariat and Ioana Ispas, JPIAMR’s Romanian Management Board representative talked in the session ‘European context of research and how to enhance collaboration between Western, Central and Eastern European research’.