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
This action aims to support enhanced hospital and long-term care facilities infection prevention and control practices, as well as antimicrobial stewardship practices, and the development of best practices and implementation at all levels. It supports the commitment in the EU One Health Action Plan against AMR for the Commission to help to address patient safety in hospitals by supporting good practices in infection prevention and control and antimicrobial stewardship.
Detailed Call Description
The activities will focus on capacity building, by providing training and implementation of enhanced infection prevention and control (IPC) practices and antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) in hospitals and in long-term care facilities and support for further dissemination, as well as AMS in primary care.
They shall include training as well as other activities to support good practice in IPC, and AMS including clinical audit and feedback, action by regulators (e.g. incentive schemes, sanction schemes), pilots to showcase state-of-the-art IPC and AMS schemes in hospitals and long term facilities that can be replicated elsewhere using for instance the Cohesion Policy funds in the future (e.g. for investments into healthcare infrastructure).
The action supports the policy priority to prevent and control the rise or return of highly infectious diseases. It implements the EU4Health Programme’s general objective of protecting people in the Union from serious cross-border threats to health and strengthening the responsiveness of health systems and coordination among the Member States in order to cope with serious cross-border threats to health (Article 3, point (b) through the specific objectives defined in Article 4, points (a), (b) and (i) of Regulation (EU) 2021/522.
EXPECTED RESULTS AND IMPACT
The support of capacity building is expected to enhance primary and secondary healthcare services.
An improved effectiveness of healthcare systems to prevent infection is likely to result in reductions in healthcare associated infections and improvements in patient safety in relation to AMR in the participating hospitals and long-term care facilities.
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