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Call for Proposals on EU Network of Youth Cancer Survivors
Funding Program
EU4Health programme 2021-2027
Call number
EU4H-2024-PJ-02-4
deadlines
Opening
18.06.2024
Deadline
10.10.2024 17:00
Funding rate
60-80 %
Call budget
€ 5,000,000.00
Estimated EU contribution per project
€ 5,000,000.00
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Link to the submission
Call content
short description
This action is meant to maintain and further develop the ‘EU Network of Youth Cancer Survivors’ to foster social networking, peer-support, coaching, knowledge-exchange and improve the quality of life of young cancer survivors. The action is a follow-up project to the action grants EU4H-2021-PJ-04 (EU-CAYAS-NET project and OACCUs project).
Call objectives
This action supports the implementation of the Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan to support childhood cancer and implements the EU4Health Programme’s general objective to improve and foster health in the Union (Article 3, point (a), of Regulation (EU) 2021/522) through the specific objectives defined in Article 4, points (a) and (g), of Regulation (EU) 2021/522.
The overall aim of maintaining the networks is to continue the collaboration between different existing stakeholder organisations and, through this network to further support social networking and further develop user friendly digital tools to easily access the information and improve the links amongst individuals, patients, children, adolescents and young adults (CAYA) cancer survivors, carers, researchers, and social and health professionals active in cancer prevention and care across the Union and countries associated to the EU4Health Programme. In addition, a healthy lifestyle promoting network could also be integrated in the mobile application and website.
Furthermore, the network will consider relapse / metastatic cancer. The network should support and provide all the necessary information related to metastatic cancer.
The network will foster social networking, peer-support, coaching, knowledge-exchange, and aims at improving:
- the quality of life of survivors (including mental health, education and career support, follow-up care and transition);
- the care for adolescents and young adults (AYA) with cancer (including metastatic cancer);
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) along the whole treatment and survivorship trajectory;
- promote healthy lifestyles through interaction and exchange with peers, with people with a similar disease history, with friends as well as with healthcare organisations.
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Expected effects and impacts
- improve the communication between children, adolescent, and young adult cancer survivors, formal and informal carers, and civil society;
- strengthen the knowledge on how to make a difference in the lives of young people with cancer and survivors;
- increase the knowledge and support for patients with relapse and metastatic cancer;
- increase the knowledge and support for patients on how to tackle the side-effects of treatments.
- provide resources for survivors to learn how to become an advocate to bring key messages and knowledge on cancer survivorship to main target groups (survivors, healthcare professionals, researchers, health policy makers).
- provide resources for survivors to pursue a healthier lifestyle, notably via sport and physical activities, healthier nutrition and mental wellbeing.
The action contributes to Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan flagship initiative on paediatric cancer, which specifically mentions the EU Network of Youth Cancer Survivors as being directly linked with the activities of the “Childhood cancers and cancers in adolescents and young adults: cure more and cure better” initiative. This initiative, supported under the Horizon Europe Cancer Mission, will directly benefit from the deliverables of this action.
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Expected results
- Further development of the functionalities of the “EU Network of Youth Cancer Survivors”based on user needs;
- the utilisation and incorporation of the results from previous EU-CAYAS-NET and OACCUs projects;
- maintenance, update and improvement of the existent application(s) and website(s) (already created in previous EU-CAYAS-NET and OACCUs projects), and throughout these activities, the action should build up on and seek synergies with other actions funded under the EU4Health programme, such as for example the ‘Cancer Survivor Smart Card’ application;
- (further) creation of a ‘virtual library', assuring access to reliable, accurate cancer information in different languages;
- the development of strategies for the sustainability of the app’s/website’s functionalities, content, and financing;
- the recommendation for the future and further maintenance/development of the “EU Network of Youth Cancer Survivors”;
- Cover all EU languages;
- Throughout the project, wide visibility of the actions/initiatives of the EU Network will be requested.
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Eligibility Criteria
Regions / countries for funding
Moldova (Moldova), Iceland (Ísland), Norway (Norge), Ukraine (Україна)
eligible entities
Education and training institution, International organization, Non-Profit Organisation (NPO) / Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Other, Private institution, incl. private company (private for profit), Public Body (national, regional and local; incl. EGTCs), Research Institution incl. University, Small and medium-sized enterprise (SME)
Mandatory partnership
Yes
Project Partnership
Proposals must be submitted by a consortium composed of at least 5 applicant organisations established in at least 5 different eligible countries.
Applicants should be: Academia and education establishments, research institutes, hospitals, expert networks, civil society organisations, associations, foundations, NGOs and similar entities.
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
- be legal entities (public or private bodies)
- be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
- EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs
- eligible non-EU countries: listed EEA countries and countries associated to the EU4Health Programme or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature (list of participating countries)
Other entities may participate in other consortium roles, such as associated partners, subcontractors, third parties giving in-kind contributions, etc.
Specific cases:
Natural persons — Natural persons are NOT eligible (with the exception of self-employed persons, i.e. sole traders, where the company does not have legal personality separate from that of the natural person).
International organisations — International organisations are eligible. The rules on eligible countries do not apply to them.
Entities without legal personality — Entities which do not have legal personality under their national law may exceptionally participate, provided that their representatives have the capacity to undertake legal obligations on their behalf, and offer guarantees for the protection of the EU financial interests equivalent to that offered by legal persons.
EU bodies — EU bodies (with the exception of the European Commission Joint Research Centre) can NOT be part of the consortium.
Associations and interest groupings — Entities composed of members may participate as ‘sole beneficiaries’ or ‘beneficiaries without legal personality’. Please note that if the action will be implemented by the members, they should also participate (either as beneficiaries or as affiliated entities, otherwise their costs will NOT be eligible).
European Reference Networks (ERNs) — These cover networks between healthcare providers and centres of expertise in the Member States to reinforce healthcare cooperation, in particular in the area of rare diseases, in line with the objectives set out in Article 12 of Directive 2011/24.
other eligibility criteria
Non- eligible activities:
- financial support to third parties
The costs will be reimbursed at the funding rate fixed in the Grant Agreement (60%).
You can apply for a higher project funding rate (80%) if your project is of ‘exceptional utility’, i.e. concerns:
- actions where at least 30 % of the budget is allocated to Member States whose GNI per inhabitantis less than 90% of the EU average or
- actions with bodies from at least 14 Member States and where at least four are from Member States whose GNI per inhabitant is less than 90% of the EU average.
Additional information
Topics
Relevance for EU Macro-Region
EUSAIR - EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region, EUSALP - EU Strategy for the Alpine Space, EUSBSR - EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region, EUSDR - EU Strategy for the Danube Region
UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDGs)
project duration
36 months
Additional Information
Proposals must be submitted electronically via the Funding & Tenders Portal Electronic Submission System (accessible via the Topic page in the Search Funding & Tenders section). Paper submissions are NOT possible. Proposals (including annexes and supporting documents) must be submitted using the forms provided inside the Submission System.
Proposals must be complete and contain all the requested information and all required annexes and supporting documents:
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Application Form Part A — contains administrative information about the participants (future coordinator, beneficiaries and affiliated entities) and the summarised budget for the project (to be filled in directly online)
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Application Form Part B — contains the technical description of the project (to be downloaded from the Portal Submission System, completed and then assembled and re-uploaded)
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mandatory annexes and supporting documents (templates available to be downloaded from the Portal Submission System, completed, assembled and re-uploaded):
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detailed budget table/calculator
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CVs (standard) of core project team
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list of previous projects (key projects for the last 4 years) (template available in Part B)
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Proposals are limited to maximum 70 pages (Part B). Evaluators will not consider any additional pages.
Call documents
Call document EU4H-2024-PJ-02Call document EU4H-2024-PJ-02(1035kB)
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