The EU Life Sciences ESG Knowledge Project, with participation from 22 Life Science investors, aims to coordinate approaches on ESG within the European Life Science investment community, supported by Impact House by Grant Thornton. The Knowledge Project has released its 2025 questionnaire for investors to use and is now freely available to download.
Coordinated approach to ESG data collection
In 2023, several investors in the European Life Sciences Venture Capital community collaborated on creating a coordinated approach to ESG data collection. This new approach was designed to bring efficiency to the data collection exercise, with participating firms asking the same questions and expecting data in the same format. This allowed for easier responses on ESG for portfolio companies and the ability to compare ESG across different firms. Thuja Capital is actively supporting the initiative, as one of the founding members.
Now with 22 participating investors, the Knowledge Project aims to enhance ESG knowledge and performance of the participating members by creating a growing community of European Life Sciences Investors who want to improve their ESG performance, share the latest knowledge and insights on ESG in the Life Sciences sector and standardize the ESG data collection process across the industry.
Download the 2025 questionnaire
Throughout 2024 the Knowledge Project has added several new participants, reviewed and updated the questionnaire used for data collection as well as performing benchmarking analysis across the data collected by participating members earlier this year. The questionnaire has been built to cover the material ESG matters for the Life Science investment industry, aligning to existing industry questionnaires and other disclosure guiding standards, such as the Sustainable Financial Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) and the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS). The Knowledge Project’s updated 2025 ESG Questionnaire is now freely available for download here.
Open for new participants
The Knowledge Project remains open to new participants joining as fee-paying members, which enables access to benchmarking data, contribution to questionnaire development as well as other knowledge sharing and industry events. If you are interested in joining the project, please get in touch with our ESG Officer Lisanne Blauw or COO Estefanía Matesanz.