FUNDS?
WHICH
Two possible ways
European projects
(i.e. applications to EC calls)
Scientific consortium
EC calls for EU projects
DG SANCO (Luxembourg)
Public Health issues
Projects
Joint Actions
DG RESEARCH (Bruxelles)
Research issues
Projects
Coordination
ERANET
Info from the European Commission
DG SANCO (Luxembourg)
• There will be money for cancer and the allocation of those
funds will be on the basis of ''equal opportunity for all'' who
apply
• In December, the DG SANCO Work plan 2013 should be
adopted (details still confidential)
• A new Joint Action on Cancer will come into being from
2014
• Regarding the Multi-Annual planning, DG SANCO still
doesn't know the timing and the amount of money to be
allocated
• Past call : 8 December 2011 - 9 March 2012
Info from the European Commission
DG RESEARCH (Bruxelles)
• A budget of €8.5billion is proposed for the ''Health,
Demographic Change and Wellbeing'' theme of Horizon
2020. This makes it the largest of Horizon 2020's social
challenges
• EU funding for research and innovation will be unified
into one programme
• The steps and procedures to apply (red tape) needed
for organisations to apply and to access RTD funding,
and to start the project, will be greatly simplified
• Next call: inside information for March
What do we mean by
Scientific Consortium?
• Group of researchers deciding to work together with a
common protocol of data collection
• Each researcher (or group of researchers)
independently find national funds to subsidize data
collection
• Funds for meetings, common database and common
analysis should be found (with national or international
sources)
• Similarly to the EUROCARE organisation
Possible / interested partners
• Who is interested to participate in project calls?
• OECI – Organisation of European Cancer Institutes
• EPAAC WP8 outcome cancer research