Action grants to support accreditation and certification of quality assurance schemes for breast, colorectal and cervical cancer screening programmes
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
The action aims at supporting Member States in the implementation of accredited certification schemes for cancer screening programmes and follow-up and subsequent diagnosis and care in agreement with the Union (EU) guidelines and quality assurance schemes for population-based screening programmes.
Detailed Call Description
Activities will include the organisation, implementation and running of accreditation and certification activities making use of guidelines for breast, colorectal and cervical cancer screening, diagnosis and care.
Activities will include the organisation, implementation and running of accreditation and certification activities making use of European guidelines addressing the entire pathway of breast cancer screening, through the use of the work developed by the European Commission Initiative on Breast Cancer (ECIBC). The mentioned activities will be implemented by the successful applicant/consortium of Breast Cancer Services (BCS), and Conformity Assessment Bodies accredited for the European Quality Assurance schemes.
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’. Actions shall be considered to have exceptional utility where:
- at least 30 % of the budget of the proposed action is allocated to Member States whose GNI per inhabitant is less than 90 % of the Union average; or
- bodies from at least 14 participating Member States participate in the action, of which at least four are Member States whose GNI per inhabitant is less than 90 % of the Union average.
Thematic Categories
- Health
Eligibility for Participation
- Central Government
- International Organisations
- NGOs
- 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.
Civil society organisations (associations, foundations, NGOs and similar entities); academia and education establishments, research institutes, hospitals, expert networks and Member States’ authorities-cancer centres.
Proposals must be submitted by either a single applicant or a consortium of at least 3 entities from 3 different eligible countries.
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: 10/12/2021-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