Improve the Quality of Life of older cancer patients
Supporting the implementation of the Cancer Mission · HORIZON-RIA · Needs partners
What this call funds
This call funds research projects that aim to improve quality of life for cancer patients aged 65 and older. It supports building better understanding of their unique care needs and developing, testing, and scaling up practical, holistic treatment and follow-up approaches suited to older patients, with the goal of giving healthcare systems evidence to implement age-appropriate cancer care.
public health · digital health · aging care · biotechnology
Who wins this
A multinational, multidisciplinary consortium of clinicians, researchers, SSH experts, patient organisations, and health authorities running clinical studies to develop age-tailored cancer care approaches for older patients.
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The call in detail
- Indicative grant size
- €5M–€6M
- Funding model
- Budget-based — reimbursement of actual eligible costs
- Submission
- Single-stage submission (full proposal at once)
- Type of action
- HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions
- Partners
- Required. The call asks for a consortium — a group applying together, typically 3+ organisations from 3+ countries.
- Eligible applicants
- research organisation, academia, SME, non-profit, public body, charity/foundation
- Also required
- Proposals must include direct involvement of cancer patients, survivors, survivor representative organisations and caregivers, along with effective SSH expertise; successful proposals must join the EU Cancer Mission 'Quality of life' cluster and budget for related networking activities.
- Eligible countries (45)
- Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, United Kingdom, IL, TR, UA, RS, MK, ME, AL, BA, XK, GE, AM, MD, TN, NZ
Read the full conditions from the official call ›
General conditions 1. Admissibility conditions: Proposal page limit and layout described in Annex A and Annex E of the Horizon Europe Work Programme General Annexes. Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System. 2. Eligible countries described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes. 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. See the information in the Horizon Europe Programme Guide. 3. Other Eligibility Conditions described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes. 4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion described in Annex C of the Work Programme General Annexes. 5a. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds described in Annex D of the Work Programme General Annexes. 5b. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes The thresholds for each criterion will be 4 (Excellence), 4 (Impact) and 4 (Implementation). The cumulative threshold is 12. described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes and the Online Manual. 5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes. 6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants The granting authority may, up to 4 years after the end of the action, object to a transfer of ownership or to the exclusive licensing of results, as set out in the specific provision of Annex 5. described in Annex G of the Work Programme General Annexes. Specific conditions described in the specific topic of the Work Programme.
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