The Rapid Exchange Forum (https://www.phiri.eu/wp8 ) within the PHIRI project offers policy advisors, commission services, knowledge-brokers, researchers and stakeholders working in the pandemic response a low-threshold exchange format. The delegates work on a technical level and complement the high-level Health Security Committee meetings. Since November 2020 meetings take place in a structured and efficient online format on a bi-weekly basis and are usually attended by 30 delegates from most European countries. The topics discussed (e.g., national vaccination strategies discussed in early January; planned studies on the long term effects of Covid-19 in April, etc.) are pre-selected based on a initial need's assessment in the PHIRI project (www.phiri.eu). The topics are put into voting one week before the meeting and the selected topic is answered by countries latest until one day after each meeting. Results are collected in a systematic, concise format and will be soon regularly published in the planned EU Health Information Portal. Concrete results for instance were, that Austria legally stopped the sole use of plastic mouth shields (visors) and replaced them by the FFP2-masks.