Sustained collaboration of national and regional cancer funders to support the Cancer Mission through translational research

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Programme Category

EU Competitive Programmes

Programme Name

Horizon Europe (2021-2027)

Programme Description

Horizon Europe is the European Union (EU) funding programme for the period 2021 – 2027, which targets the sectors of research and innovation. The programme’s budget is around € 95.5 billion, of which € 5.4 billion is from NextGenerationEU to stimulate recovery and strengthen the EU’s resilience in the future, and € 4.5 billion is additional aid.

Programme Details

Identifier Code

HORIZON-MISS-2025-02-CANCER-01

Call

Sustained collaboration of national and regional cancer funders to support the Cancer Mission through translational research

Summary

Common challenges in translational cancer research require effective transnational cooperation on prioritised efforts, leveraging national, regional and charity-based resources and appropriate funding schemes. Important achievements of translational cancer research funding by long-term collaboration of national and philanthropy funding organisations have been obtained by the TRANSCAN network under the Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2007-2013) and Horizon 2020 (2014-2020).

More efforts are warranted to address the potential for sustainable coordination, the access to and sharing of research data to enhance the understanding of cancer as well as to further the alignment of national, regional and foundation or charity-based cancer research and innovation programmes and activities in Member States and Associated Countries. The EU contribution will not be used to co-fund the grants to third parties described hereunder.

Detailed Call Description

The proposal should address all the following:

  • Align, coordinate and support efforts from and between national and regional public and private research funding programmes on translational cancer research to issue at least four joint transnational calls which are integrated with the Cancer Mission and the Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan;
  • Pool the necessary financial resources from the participating national and regional research programmes as well as, where appropriate, leverage resources from pertinent foundations, charities and transnational initiatives, to support at least four joint transnational calls for proposals which are integrated with the Cancer Mission and the Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan, while avoiding overlaps with EU-funded research under Horizon Europe;
  • Demonstrate the potential impact of collaboration between national and regional transnational research and innovation programmes, as well as demonstrate a leverage effect on European and national research and competitiveness using key indicators;
  • Consider novel funding schemes and joint activities such as analyses of research and innovation funding programmes, impact, dissemination, citizen (including cancer patients), engagement, and training;
  • Datasets produced by collaborative grants to academic investigator-led third parties should be made FAIR whenever possible, while tools and models should follow the principles of open science, taking advantage of current European research infrastructures and supporting the future UNCAN.eu research data platform.

Call Total Budget

€5.00 million

Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan

100%

Expected EU contribution per project: €5.00 million.

Thematic Categories

  • Health
  • Research, Technological Development and Innovation

Eligibility for Participation

  • Businesses
  • Educational Institutions
  • Investment Funds
  • Large Enterprises
  • Legal Entities
  • NGOs
  • Other Beneficiaries
  • Private Bodies
  • Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
  • Semi-governmental organisations
  • Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
  • State-owned Enterprises

Eligibility For Participation Notes

A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects.

Call Opening Date

06/05/2025

Call Closing Date

16/09/2025

National Contact Point(s)

Research and Innovation Foundation

Address: 29a Andrea Michalakopoulou, 1075 Nicosia, P.B. 23422, 1683 Nicosia
Telephone: +357 22205000
Fax: +357 22205001
Email: support@research.org.cy
Websitehttps://www.research.org.cy/en/

Contact Person:

Mr. George Christou
Scientific Officer
Email: gchristou@research.org.cy

EU Contact Point