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Improving equitable health outcomes and added value for and with cancer patients through health-economics research, health systems research and outcomes research

Funder
European Commission · Horizon Europe · EU Missions
Award amount
€5,000,000 – €7,000,000
Deadline
September 16, 2027
Eligible countries
European Union, United Kingdom, Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, Israel, Global

Summary

Forthcoming EU call topic HORIZON-MISS-2027-02-CANCER-04 · HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions. Part of call HORIZON-MISS-2027-02: Supporting the implementation of the Cancer Mission. Opens 2027-02-10; next deadline 2027-09-16. Topic page: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/HORIZON-MISS-2027-02-CANCER-04

Expected Outcome: Proposals under this topic should aim to deliver results that are directed and tailored towards, and contribute to all of the following expected outcomes: - People at risk of cancer, cancer patients and their caregivers/families benefit from access to more effective and cost-effective, national or regional, cancer control programmes across EU Member States and Associated Countries. - Researchers, physicians, innovators[1], SMEs and other professionals from different disciplines and sectors have access to national, regional or local data on healthcare spending (such as expenditures, resource allocations, organisation and type of healthcare interventions, and for which cancer indications, infrastructure, medical prescriptions, drug pricing, drug sales, reimbursement data from health insurers, population-based cancer registries or other cancer-centred registry data, longitudinal epidemiology data) for research and commercial purposes. - National or regional healthcare systems, healthcare providers, policymakers and authorities in European regions, EU Member States and Associated Countries have the evidence to improve equitable health outcomes of cancer patients by addressing direct and indirect costs, delivering value-driven cancer care and tackling organisational challenges of a rapidly-changing, dynamic cancer control[2] landscape.

Scope: Proposals should address all of the following: - Establish, validate or further refine health-economics research, health systems research, epidemiological or outcomes research methods, models, or modelling to perform (comparative)…

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What European Union reviewers look for

  • Most Horizon Europe calls score three criteria (the ERC uses excellence alone). Excellence: clarity and ambition of the objectives, and the soundness of the methodology.
  • Impact: credible pathways to the expected outcomes, and measures to communicate and exploit results.
  • Quality and efficiency of implementation: the work plan, resources and the consortium's capacity.

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