Towards the creation of a European Cancer Patient Digital Centre

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Code: 22284 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2022-CANCER-01-04 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 24/05/2022 | End submission calls: 07/09/2022

The overall goal of the Mission on Cancer and the Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan includes a better quality of life for patients and their families living with, and after, cancer.
Project results will support the creation of a virtual European Cancer Patient Digital Centre (ECPDC), which is a federated network of patient controlled (national) health data infrastructures enabling the voluntary exchange of patients and survivors’ health data in a standardised approach, for primary and secondary use.

Pragmatic clinical trials to optimise treatments for patients with refractory cancers

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Code: 22281 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2022-CANCER-01-03 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 24/05/2022 | End submission calls: 07/09/2022

While cancer research and innovation have generated novel treatment options, cancer patients across Europe need access to more effective and patient-centred interventions which keep up with increasing demands in a complex and fragmented oncology healthcare landscape with spiralling healthcare costs.

Furthermore, the COVID-19 pandemic with its detrimental impact on cancer control has demonstrated the need for different clinical trial designs with fewer inclusion and exclusion criteria that would allow evaluation of real-world effectiveness driving better and more affordable treatment solutions that are widely accessible across EU regions, Member States and Associated Countries.

Pragmatic clinical trials focus on choosing between care options. Pragmatic trials evaluate effectiveness, the effect of treatment in routine (real-world) clinical practice. Some examples include treatment versus active surveillance in patient management, combination of treatment interventions, determination of optimal dose and dose schedule, de-escalation of treatment intervention, comparative effectiveness of different treatment interventions.

Proposals under this topic should aim for delivering results that direct, tailor towards and contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

• Cancer patients and their caregivers will have access to optimised and affordable treatment interventions that increase their quality of life, across EU regions, Member States and Associated Countries;
• Healthcare professionals and academia will generate clinical evidence, by evaluating effectiveness in randomised or cluster-randomised academic investigator-initiated pragmatic clinical trials, how to best perform and deploy evidence-based treatment interventions that improve outcomes in real life for routine healthcare, including quality of life, for cancer patients who often present with co-morbidities;
• National healthcare providers, policymakers and authorities in EU Regions, Member States and Associated Countries will have the evidence to implement optimised and affordable treatments in their healthcare systems, including in everyday medical practice.

Strengthening research capacities of Comprehensive Cancer Infrastructures

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Code: 22279 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2022-CANCER-01-02 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 24/05/2022 | End submission calls: 07/09/2022

The Mission Board of the EU Mission on Cancer has defined Comprehensive Cancer Infrastructures as ‘national or regional infrastructures that provide resources and services to support, improve and integrate cancer care, research, training of care professionals and education for cancer patients, survivors and families/carers.’

Today, the level of development of Comprehensive Cancer Infrastructures and their capacities, such as their digital, research and innovation-related capacities, vary considerably across Member States and Associated Countries, leading to inequalities, in particular in terms of research, quality and access to care.

The Horizon Europe Mission on Cancer will complement the set-up across Member States and several Associated Countries of an EU network of Comprehensive Cancer Centres that will be established through the Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan by 2025. The Mission aims to achieve the target of ensuring that 90% of eligible cancer patients have access to Comprehensive Cancer Infrastructures by 2030. In that context, this topic should set up, across Member States and several Associated Countries, a capacity-building programme for countries of the EU network of Comprehensive Cancer Centres to be established through the Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan^[1], to support them in improving or developing their existing or future Comprehensive Cancer Infrastructures, focussing on developing their digital, research & innovation-related capacities and their integration with cancer care.

Proposals under this topic should aim at delivering results that are directed at and contributing to all of the following expected outcomes:

• Research and health policy makers will benefit from support to further develop or set up Comprehensive Cancer Infrastructures, leading to improvement in terms of research and access to care;
• Research and healthcare professionals will benefit from a better integration between research and care;
• Researchers will benefit from innovative infrastructures to perform research and participate in studies;
• Citizens, including patients and their caregivers will have enhanced access to screening, diagnostics and treatments, improved care pathways and more integrated care. Their involvement and participation to clinical trials will be facilitated.

Improving and upscaling primary prevention of cancer through implementation research

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Code: 22260 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2022-CANCER-01-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 24/05/2022 | End submission calls: 07/09/2022

For an increasing number of cancer indications potential mechanisms and means to prevent the onset of cancer have been identified. However, with cancer incidence steadily increasing across all age groups, parts of society, European Member States, Associated Countries and elsewhere, decisive action on primary prevention should be stepped up and made a collective responsibility. Implementing and upscaling of primary cancer-centred prevention programmes would contribute to achieving this goal.

Creating a transnational network of National Contact Points (NCPs) for EU Missions

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Code: 22253 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2022-NCP-01-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 12/05/2022 | End submission calls: 27/09/2022

This topic aims at supporting activities that are enabling or contributing to all the expected impacts of all destinations of the Missions Work Programme.

To that end, proposals under this topic should aim for delivering results that are directed towards and contributing to all of the following expected outcomes:

• An improved and professionalised NCP service across Europe, thereby helping simplify access to EU Missions calls, lowering the entry barriers for newcomers, and raising the average quality of proposals submitted.
• A more consistent level of NCP support services across Europe.
• Mobilising expertise from across all of the clusters, as well as from the other pillars of Horizon (a whole of programme approach) and into other policy areas thus reflecting the ‘beyond R&I’ nature of the missions, as well as outreach activities to the most relevant national and regional networks that support dissemination of other major EU funding programmes and support EU-wide engagement of major relevant EU policy actions.
• Triggering societal transformations by encouraging applicants to enhance citizen engagement and actions widely relevant to society.

ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS

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Code: 22251 | Identifier Code: ERC-2022-POC2 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: European Research Council (ERC) | Start submission calls: 16/11/2021 | End submission calls: 29/09/2022

The ERC Proof of Concept Grants aim to maximise the value of the excellent research that the ERC funds, by funding further work (i.e. activities which were not scheduled to be funded by the original ERC frontier research grant) to verify the innovation potential of ideas arising from ERC funded projects. Proof of Concept Grants are therefore on offer only to Principal Investigators whose proposals draw substantially on their ERC funded research.

Mountain, Remote and Disadvantaged Housing Rehabilitation Housing Plan – 3rd Call

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Code: 22218 | Programme name: 2949 | Start submission calls: 04/04/2022 | End submission calls: 31/12/2022

The Ministry of Interior informs the public that the start date of the Housing Plan for the Rehabilitation of Mountainous, Remote and Disadvantaged Areas is set for April 4, 2022. The purpose of the Plan is to provide financial support for the acquisition of privately owned housing for permanent ownership in areas where the Plan is valid. The Plan covers a total of 277 communities / areas defined as remote, mountainous and disadvantaged based on specific criteria.

Funding Scheme for the Enhancement of Business Activity in the walled city of Nicosia – 1st Call

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Code: 22211 | Programme name: 2949 | Start submission calls: 01/06/2022 | End submission calls: 30/10/2022

The Ministry of Interior announces of the 1st Call for Proposals for the Funding Scheme for Enhancement of Business Activity in the walled city of Nicosia.

The Scheme is part of the Action Plan for the Regeneration and Revitalization of Nicosia Within the Walls.

The Plan concerns the provision of financial support to Natural or Legal persons, owners or tenants of buildings (with the signed consent of the owners), carrying out or planning to carry out economic activity, for the purpose of strengthening business activity, in the area within the walls of Nicosia.

LIFE Preparatory Projects – Projects addressing ad hoc Legislative and Policy Priorities (PLP)

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Code: 22160 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2022-PLP | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 17/05/2022 | End submission calls: 07/09/2022

The topics under this call for proposals concern LIFE Other Action Grants (OAGs). Other Action Grants (OAGs) include:

• Coordination and Support Actions (CSA) for projects focusing on the transition to renewable energy and increased energy efficiency by breaking market barriers, through activities including capacity building, dissemination of information and knowledge, and awareness raising; they may include directly awarded grants to bodies designated by Member States.
• A Small Grant Facility on Biodiversity (BEST). Small grants (max 100 000 EUR) for projects in the EU Outermost Regions and the Overseas Countries and Territories on biodiversity conservation, ecosystem restoration and sustainable use of ecosystem services, including ecosystem-based approaches to climate change adaptation and mitigation
• Pilot projects in the framework of the ‘New European Bauhaus’ to identify and address some key challenges helping Europe’s transformation into the first climate-neutral continent in view of having better spaces in which form not only follows function, such as in the historical Bauhaus movement, but also contributes to preserve the resources of the planet.
• Action grants benefitting the organisations mentioned in Annex I of the LIFE Regulation
• Additional projects responding to the EU legislative and policy priorities determined following a consultation with Member States (PLP)
• Other specific projects to identified beneficiaries (Article 195 EU Financial Regulation).

Strategic Nature and Integrated Projects (SNaP/SIP)

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Code: 22123 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2022-STRAT-two-stage | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 17/05/2022 | End submission calls: 08/09/2022

The topics under this call for proposals concern LIFE Strategic Integrated Projects (SIPs) and Strategic Nature Projects (SNaPs).

LIFE Technical Assistance for Preparation of SIPs/SNAPs

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Code: 22121 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2022-TA-PP | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 17/05/2022 | End submission calls: 08/09/2022

The topics under this call for proposals concern LIFE Technical Assistance Project Grants (TA PP). Technical Assistance Projects (TA) may include the following activities:

• preparation of Strategic Integrated Projects (SIPs) Strategic Nature and Projects (SNAPs) (TA-PP)

Nature & Biodiversity – Standard Action Projects (SAP)

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Code: 22116 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2022-SAP-NAT | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 17/05/2022 | End submission calls: 04/10/2022

The specific objectives of the sub-programme ‘Nature and Biodiversity’ are the following:

• to develop, demonstrate, promote and stimulate scale up of innovative techniques, methods and approaches (including nature-based solutions and ecosystem approach) for reaching the objectives of the EU legislation and policy on nature and biodiversity, and to contribute to the knowledge base and to the application of best practices, including through the support of the Natura 2000
• to support the development, implementation, monitoring and enforcement of EU legislation and policy on nature and biodiversity, including by improving governance at all levels, in particular through enhancing capacities of public and private actors and the involvement of civil society, also taking into due consideration the possible contributions provided by citizen science
• to catalyse the large-scale deployment of successful solutions/approaches for implementing EU legislation and policy on nature and biodiversity, by replicating results, integrating related objectives into other policies and into public and private sector practices, mobilising investment and improving access to finance.

Circular Economy and Quality of Life – Standard Action Projects (SAP)

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Code: 22113 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2022-SAP-ENV | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 17/05/2022 | End submission calls: 04/10/2022

The specific objectives of the sub-programme ‘Circular Economy and Quality of Life’ are:

• to develop, demonstrate and promote innovative techniques, methods and approaches for reaching the objectives of the EU legislation and policy on environment, and to contribute to the knowledge base and, where relevant, to the application of best practices
• to support the development, implementation, monitoring and enforcement of the EU legislation and policy on environment, including by improving governance at all levels, in particular through enhancing capacities of public and private actors and the involvement of civil society
• to catalyse the large-scale deployment of successful technical and policyrelated solutions for implementing the EU legislation and policy on environment, by replicating results, integrating related objectives into other policies and into public and private sector practices, mobilising investment and improving access to finance.

This sub-programme aims at facilitating the transition toward a sustainable, circular, toxic-free, energy-efficient and climate-resilient economy and at protecting, restoring and improving the quality of the environment.

LIFE Clean Energy Transition

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Code: 22110 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2022-CET | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 17/05/2022 | End submission calls: 16/11/2022

The specific objectives of the sub-programme ‘Clean Energy Transition’ are the following:

• to develop, demonstrate and promote innovative techniques, methods and approaches for reaching the objectives of the EU legislation and policy on the transition to sustainable renewable energy and increased energy efficiency, and to contribute to the knowledge base and to the application of best practice
• to support the development, implementation, monitoring and enforcement of the EU legislation and policy on the transition to sustainable renewable energy or increased energy efficiency, including by improving governance at all levels, in particular through enhancing capacities of public and private actors and the involvement of civil society
• to catalyse the large-scale deployment of successful technical and policyrelated solutions for implementing the EU legislation on the transition to renewable energy or increased energy efficiency by replicating results, integrating related objectives into other policies and into public and private sector practices, mobilising investment and improving access to finance

Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation – Standard Action Projects (SAP)

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Code: 22103 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2022-SAP-CLIMA | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 17/05/2022 | End submission calls: 04/10/2022

The specific objectives of the sub-programme ‘Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation’ are:

• to develop, demonstrate and promote innovative techniques, methods and approaches for reaching the objectives of the EU legislation and policy on climate action and to contribute to the knowledge base and to the application of best practice
• to support the development, implementation, monitoring and enforcement of the EU legislation and policy on climate action, including by improving governance at all levels, in particular through enhancing capacities of public and private actors and the involvement of civil society
• to catalyse the large-scale deployment of successful technical and policyrelated solutions for implementing the EU legislation and policy on climate action by replicating results, integrating related objectives into other policies and into public and private sector practices, mobilising investment and improving access to finance.

This sub-programme will contribute to the transformation of the EU into a climate-neutral and -resilient society, by supporting the implementation of the EU’s climate policy and preparing the EU for the climate action challenges in the coming years and decades.

Incentive Scheme for the Revival of countryside, mountainous and remote areas through the creation of Authentic Experiences to enrich the tourism product – 2022 Call

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Code: 22097 | Identifier Code: C3.1I8 | Programme name: 13602 | Start submission calls: 20/06/2022 | End submission calls: 30/11/2022

The Deputy Ministry of Tourism announces the 1st Call of the Incentive Scheme for the Revival of countryside, mountainous and remote areas through the creation of Authentic Experiences to enrich the tourism product, under the Recovery and Resilience Fund, to support Local Authorities and natural or legal persons who are active in the fields of gastronomy, handicrafts and creative arts, as well as alternative tourism and rural activities.

Building the mission’s knowledge repository and advancing the European Soil Observatory

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Code: 21768 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2022-SOIL-01-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 12/05/2022 | End submission calls: 27/09/2022

Data and knowledge on soils are widely distributed and generally not sufficiently structured, which hampers their discovery and usability. A particular difficulty is the integration of outputs and results from research projects that would support a holistic understanding of soil health challenges and potential solutions or allow for the re-use of available knowledge and data for various purposes (e.g. follow-up research, practical applications).

A European Social Innovation Catalyst Fund to Advance EU Mission Objectives by Replicating and Scaling-up Existing, Demonstrably Successful Social Innovations

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Code: 21761 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2022-SOCIALCAT-01-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 12/05/2022 | End submission calls: 21/09/2022

The call targets

• for the consortium that will manage the project, a diverse assemblages of actors of social innovation, i.e., public authorities, academia, business, citizens and citizens’ organizations;
• for the creation of the fund, national research and innovation funding agencies, philanthropists, and other public or private investors; and
• for the replication of social innovations, as beneficiaries of third party financing through open calls, social innovators, social enterprises, companies working for reaching social impact and/or with a specific consideration of social impact, etc.

Testing and demonstrating transformative solutions on climate resilience, mainstreaming nature based solutions in the systemic transformation

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Code: 21759 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2022-CLIMA-01-06 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 12/05/2022 | End submission calls: 27/09/2022

The proposal should develop and test innovative solutions, combining technological and social innovation, leading to an increase of the resilience and adaptation capacity to climate change in the involved regions and communities, assuring that nature based solutions are explored as priority and at the very heart of the development whenever possible.

Marine litter and pollution – Smart and low environmental impact fishing gears

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Code: 21754 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2022-OCEAN-01-05 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 12/05/2022 | End submission calls: 27/09/2022

Proposals under this topic are expected to identify a set of suitable innovative smart and sustainable solutions to be tested, validated and demonstrated in real conditions, to address negative impacts of fishing gears on marine life and habitats and promote long-term sustainability in our ocean and seas.