Deadline: 9-Mar-23
The European Commission (EC) is inviting proposals for its Concept development for a research infrastructure to manage, integrate and sustain large medical cohort studies.
Scope
This topic aims at supporting the development of new concepts for a research infrastructure at European level, to manage, integrate and sustain large medical cohort studies. The possibility to extend the scope of already existing infrastructures and/or integrate in a sustainable way existing pan-European and national capacities to cover this need and provide RI services for large medical cohort studies should be assessed as a first option, identifying what is missing and the necessary new developments. Such an infrastructure will also enable an appropriate exploitation of past investments by EU framework programmes or other European funders on the development of medical cohorts.
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
Projects are expected to contribute to several of the following expected outcomes:
- support to planning and decision making at the national level (e.g. funding bodies, governments) and at European level (e.g. ESFRI) through a sound science case, including expected scientific breakthrough, a gap analysis and a feasibility/design study for a future research infrastructure to manage, integrate and sustain large medical cohort studies;
- ensuring stewardship and long-term availability of data and samples related to existing and future large medical cohort studies for their re-use for secondary research;
- strengthening and integration of existing capacities in the field;
- new services and access opportunities available to the research community, allowing to better tackle medical challenges.
Eligibility Criteria
- To become a beneficiary, legal entities must be eligible for funding.
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To be eligible for funding, applicants must be established in one of the following countries:
- the Member States of the European Union, including their outermost regions,
- the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) linked to the Member States,
- countries associated to Horizon Europe;
- the following low- and middle-income countries.
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