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IHI – Call 8
IHI call 8 is a two-stage call with topics on cardiovascular disease, osteoarthritis, regulatory sandboxes, and patient-centred endpoints.
Topics
- Topic 1: A city-based approach to reducing cardiovascular mortality in Europe
- Topic 2: Novel endpoints for osteoarthritis (OA) by applying big data analytics
- Topic 3: Modelling regulatory sandbox mechanisms and enabling their deployment to support breakthrough innovation
- Topic 4: Patient-centred clinical-study endpoints derived using digital health technologies
Deadline: 10 October 2024 (short proposal); 23 April 2025 (full proposal)
EU-ATTRACT 2025: International call for research proposals on rare cancer
EU-ATTRACT 2025: International call for research proposals on rare cancer drug development ATTRACT Cancer drug research
ATTRACT is the first international initiative to accelerate drug development for rare cancers by funding cross-border clinical academic research. Building on the success of the first edition, we are excited to announce the launch of a second call for projects in September 2024.
Six European anticancer charities join forces and launch the ATTRACT 2025 call to stimulate international research on the treatment of rare cancers. We invite European researchers and clinicians from different countries to unite and collaborate in setting up late phase (phase 2/3) international clinical trials that aim to advance the development of better drug therapy for rare cancers patients.
Application open: 09 September 2024
Deadline: 11 October 2024 (pre-proposal); End of April 2025 (full proposal)
EFRO – Strengthen research and innovation capacity
This call fits within the ‘Smart Flanders’ theme and focuses on projects that aim to strengthen research and innovation capacity.
Budget: 5.000.000 euros (1.500.000 / project)
Deadline: 18 November 2024 (pre-proposal), 07 February 2025 (full proposal)
King Baudouin Foundation – Research in the field of polymyalgia rheumatica and giant cell arteritis
The Fund Stéphanie Willems is launching a first call for research projects in the field of polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) and giant cell arteritis (GCA) in Belgium. Projects improving insight into the pathogenesis but also into clinical issues in diagnosis and disease management will qualify for funding.
Projects that would qualify for funding should lead to:
– a better understanding of the immuno-pathogenesis and eventual to novel therapeutics. Identifying prognostic markers predicting vascular complications or chronicity also qualifies for funding.
– understanding the position of GP’s in the diagnosis and management. Recommendations and implementation of the use of red flags for referral to specialist care are needed in Belgium.
– more insight into correct glucocorticoid use and the place of disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs) in a therapeutic strategy.
– a better understanding of the specific burden for the elder population and development and/or validation of PRO’s in this population.
Collaboration between clinicians and academic researchers is strongly encouraged. Interdisciplinarity and multicentricity are also strongly encouraged.
Budget: 1.500.000 euro
Deadline: 19 November 2024
King Baudouin Foundation – Call for clinical fellowship in peadiatric haematology-oncology
The Fund Prinses Máxima Centrum Belgium supports medical doctors who obtained a paediatric recognition in a Belgian university, or who have a Belgian recognition as paediatrician. The one year fellowship grant will fund a clinical training in paediatric haemato-oncology at the Princess Máxima Centre in Utrecht. The fellowship will start as soon as the fellow is available and at the latest in October 2026.
Budget: 77.500 euro
Deadline: 02 December 2024
UOS – Global Innovation Fund – Permanent Call
The Global Innovation Fund (GIF) is a non-profit, impact-first investment fund headquartered in London with offices in Washington, D.C., Nairobi and Singapore. It invests in the development, rigorous testing, and scaling of innovations targeted at improving the lives of the world’s poorest people. GIF believes that the best ideas for solving some of the world’s most critical problems can come from anyone, anywhere. Through its grants and risk capital, the Fund helps breakthrough solutions to global development challenges from for-profit firms, non-profit organisations, researchers, and government agencies to maximise their impact and affect meaningful change.
GIF supports innovations on their path to scale and therefore supports innovators in a staged funding approach from early-stage field pilots (with funding up to 230K USD) right through to large-scale implementation (up to 15M USD). Innovations must be focussed on those living in poverty and ready to be applied in a real-word setting. The innovations must be informed by evidence and generate new knowledge on what works. Theoretical research, or purely lab-based activities that are not linked to implementation are not eligible for funding.
EAISF – The AI Accountability Grants
The European AI & Society Fund is pleased to invite applications for our AI Accountability Grants: up to €200,000 in funding for bold, adventurous projects that explore how to hold those responsible to account for harms caused by the use of AI in Europe. Proposals must be submitted by 6 January.
Over the past few years, the European Union has developed a range of tech legislation, with the ambition of becoming the home for ‘trustworthy AI’. Alongside Europe’s existing equalities, rights, consumer, and worker protection legislation, this creates a set of tools to challenge harms caused by the development and use of AI.
Public interest advocates from different fields need to come together to analyse and experiment with the new rules, demand redress for injustice and close gaps where there are insufficient protections.
The AI Accountability grants are part of our Making Regulation Work programme. They will support bold and experimental projects that seek to identify clear opportunities to address the negative impacts of AI systems on people and society in Europe.
Budget: Between 10.000 and 200.000 euros
Deadline: 06 January 2025
King Baudouin Foundation – Applied research focusing on Health and Environment Interactions – Orcadia Fund
About to complete your PhD? Fund Orcadia helps you launch your scientific career on the interactions between health and the environment.
Budget: 100.000 euros
Deadline: 07 January 2025
King Baudouin Foundation – Applied research focusing on health and environment interactions – Orcadia Fund
Are you a young and talented researcher seeking to develop your career? Are you working on the interactions of Environment and Health?
Fund Orcadia launches a career development grant for young and talented researchers to help them strengthen their research career or application for longer-term fellowships and funding.
In a nutshell:
- Interactions between natural environment and mental or physical health
- Applied Research tackling practical, concrete issues and impacting the stakeholders involved in the topic beyond the academic field
- Between 9 and 18 months of financial support
- Postdoc or equivalent level
- Host institution located in Belgium
Various domains of research are eligible: Public Health, Psychology, Medicine (both Preventive and Curative Care of physical and mental ailment), Epidemiology, Geography, Sociology, Anthropology, Economics or any other discipline/interdisciplinary work investigating the link between Environment and Health.
Budget: 100.000 euro
Deadline: 07 January 2025
KOTK – Call psychosocial projects (including seed money)
KOTK funds psychosocial research and implementation projects that introduce something new in the care of (ex-)cancer patients or substantially improve existing care. Funding can be in the form of seed money or project money.
Deadlines: 13 January 2025, 10 March 2025, 26 May 2025, 25 August 2025, 9 October 2025
This list is non-exhaustive