WHICH FUNDS?

Two possible ways European projects (i.e. applications to EC calls) Scientific consortium

EC calls for EU projects DG SANCO (Luxembourg) Public Health issues ProjectsJoint Actions DG RESEARCH (Bruxelles) Research issues ProjectsCoordinationERANET

Info from the European Commission DG SANCO (Luxembourg) There will be money for cancer and the allocation of those funds will be on the basis of ''equal opportunity for all'' who apply In December, the DG SANCO Work plan 2013 should be adopted (details still confidential) A new Joint Action on Cancer will come into being from 2014 Regarding the Multi-Annual planning, DG SANCO still doesn't know the timing and the amount of money to be allocated Past call : 8 December March 2012

Info from the European Commission DG RESEARCH (Bruxelles) A budget of €8.5billion is proposed for the ''Health, Demographic Change and Wellbeing'' theme of Horizon This makes it the largest of Horizon 2020's social challenges EU funding for research and innovation will be unified into one programme The steps and procedures to apply (red tape) needed for organisations to apply and to access RTD funding, and to start the project, will be greatly simplified Next call: inside information for March

What do we mean by Scientific Consortium? Group of researchers deciding to work together with a common protocol of data collection Each researcher (or group of researchers) independently find national funds to subsidize data collection Funds for meetings, common database and common analysis should be found (with national or international sources) Similarly to the EUROCARE organisation

Possible / interested partners Who is interested to participate in project calls? OECI – Organisation of European Cancer Institutes EPAAC WP8  outcome cancer research