Improving socio-economic outcomes for persons with dementia and informal caregivers
Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Society - 2027 - Two-stage · HORIZON-RIA · Needs partners
What this call funds
This call funds research and action projects that help people with dementia and their unpaid family caregivers live better lives, with less financial, emotional and physical strain. It focuses on scaling up proven support interventions rather than inventing new ones, improving coordination between health, social care and community services, and generating better gender-sensitive data to guide policy.
public health · digital health · aging care · mental health · social innovation · gender equality
Who wins this
A multi-country research consortium, including social scientists, healthcare and long-term care providers, and caregiver organisations, aiming to scale up and evaluate proven dementia-care support interventions across at least four countries.
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The call in detail
- Indicative grant size
- €3.2M
- Funding model
- Lump sum — paid per completed work package, no financial reporting of actual costs
- Submission
- Two-stage submission (short outline first, full proposal if invited)
- Cut-off dates (2)
- 4 May 2027 · 30 Sep 2027
- Type of action
- HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions
- Partners
- Required. The call asks for a consortium — from 4 countries.
- Also required
- Interventions must be implemented in at least four Member States or Associated Countries, and informal caregivers must be involved throughout the research design and implementation; first-stage proposals are evaluated blindly.
- 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 Applicants submitting a proposal for a blind evaluation (see General Annex F) must not disclose their organisation names, acronyms, logos nor names of personnel in the proposal abstract and Part B of their first-stage application (see General Annex E). As 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 As 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 Eligible Conditions As described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes. 4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion As described in Annex C of the Work Programme General Annexes. 5a. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds The first-stage proposals of this topic will be evaluated blindly. In addition, as described in Annex D of the Work Programme General Annexes. 5b. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes As 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 As described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes. 6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants Eligible costs will take the form of a lump sum as defined in the Decision of 7 July 2021 authorising the use of lump sum contributions under the Horizon Europe Programme – the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2021-2027) – and in actions under the Research and Training Programme of the European Atomic Energy Community (2021-2025) [[This decision is available on the Funding and Tenders Portal, in the reference documents section for Horizon Europe, under ‘Simplified costs decisions’ or through this link: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/docs/2021-2027/horizon/guidance/ls-decision_he_en.pdf ]]. 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. In addition, as described in Annex G of the Work Programme General Annexes. Specific conditions As described in the specific topic of the Work Programme.
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