Maaike De Roo is a Marie Curie PhD Training Fellow in EUROIMPACT and her research aims to evaluate quality of palliative care using measurable quality indicators, and to evaluate the use of such indicators in improving care. A “quality indicator” is a measurable aspect of care that is indicative for the quality of care provided, measured in terms of structures, outcomes and processes of care. An important challenge for palliative care is to develop effective tools to evaluate and improve the quality of palliative care. Worldwide, an increasing number of initiatives have been taken to develop quality indicators for palliative care. A number of retrospective and prospective, quantitative and qualitative data that have been or are being gathered across Europe are at the disposal of the researcher e.g. data from focus groups, national sets of quality indicators, sentinel GP networks, the Liverpool Care Pathway, and the interrRAI Long Term Care Facility. Maaike works at VU University Medical Center and EMGO Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands and will travel to the National Cancer Research Institute in Genoa, Italy for 6 months.