Call for proposals on lifelong prevention for a healthy life with focus on cardiovascular diseases
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 aim of this action is to contribute to reducing the burden of non-communicable diseases, including cancer, and their risk factors across the lifespan, supporting Member States’ actions.
Detailed Call Description
The action targets:
- lifelong prevention of non-communicable diseases, notably cardiovascular diseases and diabetes (targeting all age groups, with a particular focus on children and adolescents, and vulnerable groups);
- active and healthy ageing, empowering older generations;
- reducing the use and exposure to tobacco and related products, with a focus on young people’s access to emerging tobacco and nicotine products;
- reducing harmful alcohol consumption, in particular in young people and vulnerable groups;
- the promotion of healthy diets and physical to improve health;
- reducing the impact on mental wellbeing of social media and excessive screen time with a focus on children and young people.
The activities will include:
- capacity-building for stakeholders to develop and pilot community-level, coordinated and innovative outreach and awareness actions to support the prevention of noncommunicable diseases and relevant risk factors (tobacco, alcohol, nutrition and physical activity, etc);
- activities to improve health literacy targeting vulnerable groups;
- development and piloting of tools and instruments to address the lifelong prevention of non-communicable diseases;
- development and piloting of innovative approaches to reduce the health risks associated with the use of tobacco and alcohol, in particular in vulnerable groups;
- piloting of actions at community level on tackling risk factors for non-communicable diseases, including unhealthy diets and physical inactivity;
- development and piloting of ambitious and innovative public health interventions on tackling risk factors such as tobacco, alcohol, and second-hand exposure to smoke and aerosols from traditional tobacco and emerging products.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
Indicative project budget: €2.000.000
The costs will be reimbursed at the funding rate fixed in the Grant Agreement (60%).
You can apply for a higher project funding rate (80%) if your project is of ‘exceptional utility’, i.e. concerns:
- actions where at least 30 % of the budget is allocated to Member States (or EU4H associated countries) whose GNI per inhabitant is less than 90% of the EU average or
- actions with bodies from at least 14 Member States (or EU4H associated countries) and where at least four are from Member States (or EU4H associated countries) whose GNI per inhabitant is less than 90% of the EU average.
Grants may NOT produce a profit (i.e. surplus of revenues + EU grant over costs).
For-profit organisations must declare their revenues and, if there is a profit, we will deduct it from the final grant amount.
Thematic Categories
- Health
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Associations
- Educational Institutions
- Legal Entities
- NGOs
- Non Profit Organisations
- Other Beneficiaries
- Private Bodies
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- Services Providers
- State-owned Enterprises
Eligibility For Participation Notes
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must be legal entities (public or private bodies) established in EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs)) or EEA countries and countries associated to the EU4Health Programme (list of participating countries).
For topic EU4H-2026-SANTE-PJ-05: Proposals must be submitted by a consortium of at least 5 beneficiaries from 5 different eligible countries.
Type of applicants targeted: Academia and education establishments, research institutes, hospitals, expert networks including ERNs; Civil Society Organisations: Associations, Foundations, NGOs
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
Ministry of Health, Department of European Affairs
Telephone: 22605300/301, 22605617, 22605718
Address: Corner of Prodromou 1 & Chilonos 17 1448 Nicosia, Cyprus
Ms MAKRIGIORGI Elena
Email: emakrigiorgi@moh.gov.cy