Deadline: 21-Sep-21
The European Commission (EC) is pleased to announce a Roadmap for Personalised Prevention.
The progress in medicine over the past decades has been impressive. Nevertheless, many promising advancements have not yet been taken up in health care.
Thanks to personalised approaches and the development of targeted interventions, several health conditions that were until recently very serious or even fatal, can now be cured, attenuated or turned into a chronic health condition.
However, more could be achieved if they could identify individuals at higher risk of developing a particular condition early on and before symptoms occur. In this regard, it is worth noting that two thirds of chronic diseases are thought to be preventable.
Personalised prevention therefore holds many promises and would allow for a paradigm shift in the provision and management of health care if efforts are co-ordinated and concentrated at the European and global levels.
A number of successful individual preventive approaches are already deployed, for example in the field of cancer. However, more insight is needed on the underlying human biology, taking stock of the rich data accumulated from the biomedical sciences.
Furthermore, successful strategies will require holistic approaches, taking into account behavioural and life style factors. Most importantly, better co-ordination is essential to foster and accelerate the development and adoption of personalised prevention strategies for the years to come.
It will also be important to assess the value of prevention in terms of savings in the health system.
Proposals should address all of the following:
- Identification and networking of key stakeholders for the co-creation of strategies for personalised prevention.
- Literature mapping, research gap analysis and mapping of existing research programmes for personalised prevention in Europe and beyond.
- Identification of existing bottlenecks, analysis of evidences and examples of successful implementation of personalised prevention approaches and assessment of their transferability.
- Analysis of how personalised prevention can be delivered most effectively, efficiently and cost-effective.
- Robust, professional communication strategy to maximise the impact of the findings and the uptake of personalised prevention strategies.
- A Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda on personalised prevention throughout the life course to inform research funders and other prospective partners of the expected future European partnership on personalised medicine.
Funding Information
The check will normally be done for the coordinator if the requested grant amount is equal to or greater than EUR 500 000, except for:
- public bodies (entities established as a public body under national law, including local, regional or national authorities) or international organisations; and
- cases where the individual requested grant amount is not more than EUR 60 000 (lowvalue grant).
Expected Outcomes
This topic aims at supporting activities that are enabling or contributing to one or several impacts of destination “Staying healthy in a rapidly changing society”.
To that end, proposals under this topic should aim for delivering results that are directed, tailored towards and contributing to all of the following expected outcomes:
- Researchers, research funders and policy-makers implement a Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda.
- Policy makers, public health services, industrial stakeholders and citizen associations across Europe work together with a coordinated, harmonised and comprehensive research approach towards personalised prevention for all.
- Public health services, health systems and citizen associations are aware and adopt personalised prevention strategies.
- Insurers and public authorities take evidence-based policy decisions for implementing personalised prevention strategies for all.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for funding, applicants must be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
- the Member States of the European Union, including their outermost regions;
- the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) linked to the Member States;
- eligible non-EU countries:
- countries associated to Horizon Europe;
- low- and middle-income countries.
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