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Horizon Europe is the EU’s key funding programme for research and innovation.
This call aims to facilitate a network of registered cancer charities and foundations support multi-centre, transnational pragmatic clinical trials on cancers.
An important aim of Missions is bringing together various disciplines, sectors and actors, such as philanthropy. Hundreds of cancer charities and foundations across Europe support patient-centred research, including clinical trials.
Pragmatic clinical trials focus on choosing between care options. Pragmatic trials evaluate effectiveness, the effect of treatment in routine (real-world) clinical practice. Some examples include treatment versus active surveillance in patient management, a combination of treatment interventions, determination of optimal dose and dose schedules, de-escalation of treatment intervention, comparative effectiveness of different treatment interventions.
The successful proposal under this topic should aim to deliver results that are directed and tailored towards and contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:
The EU contribution aims to facilitate the coordination and networking between charities themselves as well as with relevant stakeholders across Member States and Associated Countries. The EU contribution will not co-fund the trials.
Proposals should address all of the following:
This topic requires the effective contribution of SSH disciplines and the involvement of SSH experts, institutions as well as the inclusion of relevant SSH expertise in the successful proposal, to produce meaningful and significant effects enhancing the societal impact of the related research activities.
The successful proposal is expected to build on the support of the Knowledge Centre on Cancer (KCC)[4] to foster EU alignment and coordination.
The Commission will facilitate coordination. Therefore, successful proposals will be asked to join the 'Diagnostics and Treatment' cluster for the Mission on Cancer established in 2022[5] and should include a budget for networking, attendance at meetings, and potential joint activities without the prerequisite to give details of these at this stage. Examples: organising joint workshops, establishing best practices, joint communication or citizen engagement activities with projects funded under other clusters and pillars of Horizon Europe, or other EU programmes, as appropriate. The details of joint activities will be defined during the grant agreement preparation phase and during the life of the project.
To be eligible for funding, applicants must be established in one of the following countries:
See the full list in the General Annexes.
Unless otherwise provided for in the specific call conditions, only legal entities forming a consortium are eligible to participate in actions provided that the consortium includes, as beneficiaries, three legal entities independent from each other and each established in a different country as follows:
Total indicative budget is EUR 3 000 000.
The Commission estimates that an EU contribution of 3.00 million would allow these outcomes to be addressed appropriately.
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