Deadline: 25-Jan-22
The European Commission is currently accepting proposals for the Action grants boosting cancer prevention through the use of the European Code against Cancer and other concerted actions to improve access to and understanding of risk factors and health determinants to improve health outcomes for cancer.
Strands
Applicants shall target their proposal to one or both of the action strands and indicate that clearly in the proposal.
- 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’.
- 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.
Specific Action-level Indicators for Reporting Purposes
Applicants must include data on the following indicators in their regular reporting activities in case of award, and must be prepared to include additional specific indicators where needed:
- Usability of the App
- Number of downloads of the App (breakdown per country, gender and education/income level)
- Number of (online) training courses organised (breakdown per country and per target audience, such as school children, elderly, people at work, etc)
- Number of (online) promotional activities organised (breakdown per country)
- Estimated number of people reached (breakdown per country, gender and education/income level)
- Estimated number of people who indicate that the App has improved their knowledge changed their behaviour and lifestyle (breakdown per country, gender and education/income)
- Number of feedback from users (breakdown per country, gender and education/income level)
- Health literacy project
- Number of best practices identified, collected and shared
- Estimated number of people reached (breakdown per country, gender and education/income level)
- Estimated number of people who indicate that the project has improved their knowledge and changed their behaviour and lifestyle (breakdown per country, gender and education/income).
- Number of cancer organisations and other stakeholders involved in the funded actions (breakdown per country)
- Number of (online) materials for enhancing health literacy produced and disseminated (breakdown per breakdown per country and target group)
- Number of hits for web-based information (breakdown per country)
- Number of targeted actions to specifically reach and involve vulnerable and disadvantaged population groups (breakdown per country and socio-economic group).
Funding Information
- Available budget for this topic:
- EUR 1 500 000 for strand (a)
- EUR 1 000 000 for strand (b)
- The duration of proposals should range between 12 and 36 months. Given the complexity of the activities to be funded under this topic, the recommended length of a project is 24 months.
Expected Results
The expected results are:
- increased usability of ‘EU Mobile App for Cancer Prevention’ amongst the general population through training, piloting and promotion;
- the launch of a project to increase health literacy for cancer prevention and care.
Eligibility Criteria
In order to be eligible for funding, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
- be legal entities (public or private bodies) created under Union law or an international organisation, or
- be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
- EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories linked to it (OCTs))
- eligible non-EU countries: EEA countries and countries associated to the EU4Health Programme (third countries, candidate countries and potential candidate countries, neighbourhood countries) or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature.
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