A few days ago, the EU Commission launched the second wave of EU4Health calls for project grants under the 2021 Work Programme. EU4Health Programme was developed to respond to the COVID-19 crisis with the bid to make Europe healthier, resilient, and more cohesive. This is the most extensive European Programme for health so far, with a dedicated budget of 5.1 billion euros.
This second wave makes 13 EU4Health calls for proposals available for interested organizations to submit their applications. The total EU4Health budget amounts to € 43,850,000 and provides funding on various topics such as health, healthy lifestyles, infections, mental health, cancer, genomics, and others.
The 13 published EU4Health calls that you can find on EUcalls
Programme: EU4Health Calls
Topic ID: EU4H-2021-PJ-06
Budget: € 5,000,000
Description: a) define and select, jointly with the provider of central services, key use cases (including necessary health datasets) that build on health data made available by the consortium partners to demonstrate added value of cross-country reuse of health data for policymaking, regulatory and research activities;
- b) elicit requirements (business, functional and non-functional) for an IT and data infrastructure (nodes and central services) to enable Union-wide reuse of health data;
- c) design, jointly with the provider of central services, the architecture and the specifications for the building blocks necessary for an IT infrastructure (nodes and central services) to enable Union-wide reuse of health data;
- d) develop, customise or integrate technology, jointly with the provider of central services, to fulfil the agreed requirements, architecture and specifications, as indicated in points a, b and c;
- e) deploy, at partner level, the nodes, in conformity with the design specifications, and connect them to both the national infrastructure and to the central services;
- f) run the selected use cases over the implemented IT infrastructure (validation of the process);
- g) assess the performance of the selected standards and technological building blocks used and their ability to scale towards a Union-wide infrastructure;
- h) provide feedback on legal and governance arrangements for efficient cross-border reuse of health data in the context of the pilot project.
Deadline: 25/01/2022
Programme: EU4Health Calls
Topic ID: EU4H-2021-PJ-07
Budget: € 750,000
Description: Activities will include the transfer of practices shared within the Health Policy Platform network on ‘COVID-19 mental health support’. The Commission has set up a dedicated space on ‘COVID19 mental health support’ within the Health Policy Platform. This allows interested stakeholder organisations to come together to discuss and exchange mental health practices and knowledge. Coordinated by Mental Health Europe, the group includes a focus on the needs of specific and/or vulnerable groups, including children and young people. In addition to exchanging practices, the network on ‘COVID-19 mental health support’ will increase awareness, knowledge sharing and support for health professionals’ training, including the development of necessary guidance and/or training material, such as video tutorials, manuals, etc.
Deadline: 25/01/2022
Title: Action grants to support actions to improve access to human papillomavirus vaccination
Programme: EU4Health Calls
Topic ID: EU4H-2021-PJ-08
Budget: € 1,200,000
Description: The action will support civil society organisations, including non-governmental organisations, to complement the Member States’ actions according to national and regional needs related to HPV vaccination policies and programmes. The activities which will be funded will include targeted meetings, workshops, and other initiatives to sharing information with national and regional authorities of Member States, which need to start large-scale HPV vaccination campaigns, with the main objective to receive support through the provision of expertise, best practices, and guidelines covering the planning and roll-out of vaccination campaigns.
These activities may include training (including training of trainers) on how to successfully communicate with parents and patients on HPV vaccination, how to ensure the provision of consistent messages to the public, and the provision of concrete examples on how to support vaccination in other Member States. Activities may include recommendations for the ‘bundling’ of all adolescent vaccines, including the HPV vaccine, by establishing a policy to check patients’ immunisation status at every visit and to always recommend and administer vaccines to those in need. Actions will be designed on the already available evidence-based understanding of behavioural determinants of vaccination acceptance for HPV vaccination.
Deadline: 25/01/2022
Title:Action grants for the initiative ‘HealthyLifestyle4All’: promotion of healthy lifestyles
Programme: EU4Health Calls
Topic ID: EU4H-2021-PJ-09
Budget: € 4,400,000
Description: This specific action will support the ‘HealthyLifestyle4All’ initiative by strengthening the health literacy component for the promotion of healthy lifestyles with a focus on the school setting, ensuring equal access to the activities by all socio-economic groups, and thereby reducing health inequalities. The work will be done through a holistic approach of a healthy school initiative, supporting Member States to create a healthy school environment. The action will support public authorities to increase opportunities for regular physical activity, to promote healthy lifestyles by exchanges of best practices on health literacy, including the health aspects of the Union school scheme and the promotion of the European Code against Cancer. The project will develop proposals for effective uptake of successful practices on health literacy and healthy lifestyles including, nutrition, regular health-enhancing physical activity and mental health in schools.
This action will support activities involving key actors, including the Member States, regional and local governments, education establishments and civil society organisations, to help promote healthy choices and to make them easy and affordable choices. A Union approach will be developed and shared to promote investment in active mobility infrastructures, healthy canteens and to develop outreach measures. Targeted activities of the initiative will complement major Union initiatives, including the European Week of Sport, the EU school scheme, and the EU promotion policy for agri-food products, as well as the Action Plan for the Development of Organic Production.
Deadline: 25/01/2022
Title: Action grants to reduce liver and gastric cancers caused by infections
Programme: EU4Health Calls
Topic ID: EU4H-2021-PJ-10
Budget: € 2,000,000
Description: Each of the three types of infectious agents will be addressed by specific approaches targeted to support vaccination in case of Hepatitis B virus and to drug treatment in case of Hepatitis C virus and Helicobacter pylori. Specific activities will be dedicated to the early detection of infections, the cornerstone strategy to reduce the risk of liver and gastric cancer caused by the three mentioned pathogens.
Deadline: 25/01/2022
Programme: EU4Health Calls
Topic ID: EU4H-2021-PJ-11
Budget: € 1,200,000
Description: The action will support the identification of the different capabilities and expertise available across the Union, and build the foundation to regularly identify gaps and needs to be addressed at national and regional level across the Union. At the same time, the EU Network of Comprehensive Cancer Centres will be updated on cancer care innovation as well as on cancer workforce training.
Deadline: 25/01/2022
Title: Action grants to create a ‘Cancer Survivor Smart Card’
Programme: EU4Health Calls
Topic ID: EU4H-2021-PJ-12
Budget: € 1,800,000
Description: The action will support the development, delivery and usability of a personalised ‘Cancer Survivor Smart Card’ by 2022. The smart card, in the form of an interoperable portable eCard or app, will store certain information related to the monitoring and follow-up of the survivor, including the survivor’s clinical history and follow-up. The smart card will allow connection with the health professionals responsible for the individual’s follow-up, including the survivor’s general practitioner, to improve healthcare provider and survivor communication on the survivor’s worries, questions and other matters of relevance to improve the survivor’s quality of life. The action will involve patients’ groups and health and social care providers, in order to apply a participatory and co-creative approach to help with the development of the tool, and to coach a group of ‘card-users’ to pilot the smart card’s usage once it has been developed, in preparation for the wider application phase.
Deadline: 25/02/2022
Programme: EU4Health Calls
Topic ID: EU4H-2021-PJ-13
Budget: € 5,000,000
Description: The action will build on the results of the Third Health Programme (2014-2020), which, among others, served to foster the development of integrated community-based services, the setting-up of Union-wide networks and the design of tools/guides for community-based services.
This action will support the implementation of the generated knowledge, as well as piloted good practices.
Activities shall include one or more of the below topics:
(a) the strengthening and expansion of community voluntary testing, early diagnosis and linkage to care of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted infections as well as counselling. They will also pursue harm-reduction, peer support, prison-in-reach and through-care services approaches in hard-to-reach vulnerable groups;
(b) the implementation and scaling up of tools developed under previous actions and other practical approaches to support community-based activities. This will include implementation and quality assurance of Union-wide standardised indicators on testing and linkage to care and treatment among key risk groups;
(c) consolidation of the existing network(s) of community-based services in Europe in order to forge closer interaction, facilitate the exchange of best practice and promote innovative approaches fostering the increase of early diagnosis of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, viral hepatitis and sexually transmitted diseases and linkage to care in Europe among the most affected groups.
Deadline: 25/01/2022
Title: Action grants supporting training activities, implementation, and best practices
Programme: EU4Health Calls
Topic ID: EU4H-2021-PJ-14
Budget: € 1,400,000
Description: The activities will focus on capacity building, by providing training and implementation of enhanced infection prevention and control (IPC) practices and antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) in hospitals and in long-term care facilities and support for further dissemination, as well as AMS in primary care.
They shall include training as well as other activities to support good practice in IPC, and AMS including clinical audit and feedback, action by regulators (e.g. incentive schemes, sanction schemes), pilots to showcase state-of-the-art IPC and AMS schemes in hospitals and long term facilities that can be replicated elsewhere using for instance the Cohesion Policy funds in the future (e.g. for investments into healthcare infrastructure).
Deadline: 25/01/2022
Title: Action grants for ‘Cancer Diagnostic and Treatment for All’ including ‘Genomic for Public Health’
Programme: EU4Health Calls
Topic ID: EU4H-2021-PJ-15
Budget: € 1,500,000
Description: Cancer is strongly driven by genomic modifications, and new technological approaches are now available for diagnostic, therapeutic and personalised risk-assessment for prevention. These new approaches have a relevant positive impact on the outcome of cancer care. Therefore, there is a need to support access to such measures while guaranteeing a viable and a high standard of performance of these new techniques.
This action supports the implementation of Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan objective to ensure high standards in cancer care and implements the EU4Health Programme’s general objective of improving and fostering health in the Union (Article 3, point (a)) through the specific objectives defined in Article 4, points (a) and (g) of Regulation (EU) 2021/522).
Deadline: 25/01/2022
Title: Action grants for the Computer-aided Drug Repurposing for Cancer Therapy Project
Programme: EU4Health Calls
Topic ID: EU4H-2021-PJ-16
Budget: € 3,000,000
Description: The action will launch an EU platform based on ‘computational drug networks’ to predict, in-silico, the efficacy of approved drugs against relevant cancer targets, as well as to select better responder patients or disease biomarkers. This will be implemented following a time and cost-effective approach, also building on experiences with repurposing of medicines to treat COVID-19, where high-performance computing will be used to rapidly test existing molecules and new drug combinations.
The action will also devise and test models for closer collaboration among stakeholders.
Deadline: 25/01/2022
Programme: EU4Health Calls
Topic ID: EU4H-2021-PJ-17
Budget: € 4,000,000
Description: This action will support Union data collection, aggregation and analysis on the use and outcome of therapies in the fields of:
- assisted reproduction;
- haematopoietic stem cells.
For both (a) and (b) it will facilitate the design, development and management of dedicated IT solutions with and for medical/healthcare professionals.
Deadline: 25/01/2022
Programme: EU4Health Calls
Topic ID: EU4H-2021-PJ-18
Budget: € 500,000
Description: a) to support the usability of the recommendations of the European Code against Cancer through the ‘EU Mobile App for Cancer Prevention’ by means of activities covering training, piloting and promotion amongst the general population. Support will include activities to provide relevant input for the design and development of the ‘EU Mobile App for Cancer Prevention’.
b) to support ‘Health Literacy for Cancer Prevention and Care’ by means of activities that develop and share best practices to strengthen health literacy in cancer prevention and care programmes, with a focus on disadvantaged groups. These activities will include the assessment of literacy on cancer prevention and will provide support for targeted actions to improve the degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand health information to make informed decisions about cancer prevention. These targeted actions will be designed taking into consideration health literacy programs developed within healthcare systems and in the community, for instance, to reduce medical jargon and improve education using plain language, easy-to-understand written materials and teach-back, and also plain language written materials, including visuals to provide more culturally and linguistically appropriate health education and enhanced web-based information.
Deadline: 25/01/2022
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