Action grants for ‘Cancer Diagnostic and Treatment for All’ including ‘Genomic for Public Health’
Programme Category
Programme Name
Programme Description
The Programme aims to improve and promote health in the Union to reduce the burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases by:
- protecting people from serious cross-border health threats
- improving the availability, accessibility and affordability of medicines, medical devices and other crisis-related products in the EU
- strengthening national health systems
Identifier Code
Call
Summary
Cancer is strongly driven by genomic modifications, and new technological approaches are now available for diagnostic, therapeutic and personalised risk-assessment for prevention.
The new ‘Cancer Diagnostic and Treatment for All’ initiative, and the ‘Genomic for Public Health’ project will help Member States to improve access for individuals and cancer patients and survivors to prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer through personalised medicine, by upscaling available innovation in the field of innovative cancer diagnosis and treatment.
Detailed Call Description
The proposals in this topic may involve work in one or two streams:
Applicants shall target their proposal to one or both of the action subtopics (a, b) described below and indicate that clearly in the proposal.
Sub-topic (a): ‘Cancer Diagnostic and Treatment for All’ initiative: It will use the ‘next generation sequencing’ technology for a quick and efficient application of personalised cancer diagnosis and treatment. The action will scale up the already available results in genetic profiling of patients and tumour cells allowing cancer centres to share such cancer profiles with a view to apply the same or similar diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to patients with comparable cancer profiles across the Union.
Sub-topic (b): ‘Genomic for Public Health’ project: which is expected, to scale up the ‘1+ Million Genome Initiative’ results, to translate them into implementable public health measures to address cancer prevention on the basis of specific individual genetic profiles, which indicates the susceptibility of individuals to develop a certain type of cancer. Therefore, the project will open new perspectives to personalised risk-assessment and targeted cancer prevention.
This action supports the implementation of Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan objective to ensure high standards in cancer care and implements the EU4Health Programme’s general objective of improving and fostering health in the Union (Article 3, point (a)) through the specific objectives defined in Article 4, points (a) and (g) of Regulation (EU) 2021/522).
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
60%
Applicants can apply for a higher project funding rate (maximum 80%) if your project is of ‘exceptional utility’.
Thematic Categories
- Health
Eligibility for Participation
- Central Government
- International Organisations
- NGOs
- Non Profit Organisations
- Private Bodies
- State-owned Enterprises
Eligibility For Participation Notes
In order to be eligible for funding, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
- be legal entities (public or private bodies) created under Union law or an international organisation, or
- be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
- EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories linked to it (OCTs)
- eligible non-EU countries: EEA countries and countries associated to the EU4Health Programme (third countries, candidate countries and potential candidate countries, neighbourhood countries) or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature.
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
Ministry of Health, Department of European Affairs
Ms MAKRIGIORGI Elena
emakrigiorgi@moh.gov.cy
(Publish Date: 29/10/2021-for internal use only)
EU Contact Point
Stefan DE KEERSMAECKER
Telephone: +32 2 298 46 80
Email: stefan.de-keersmaecker@ec.europa.eu
Darragh CASSIDY
Telephone: +32 2 298 39 78
Email: darragh.cassidy@ec.europa.eu