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EU Corner: Launch of new calls under Horizon 2020
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On 14 October 2015, the European Commission unveiled the new Horizon 2020 program for the next 2 years, including priorities for research and innovation activities on health, demographic change and well-being worth nearly 1 billion.
The overall strategic orientation for the Health, Demographic Change and Well being Work Programme 2016-2017 is “promoting healthy ageing and personalized healthcare.”
The program will implement several research priorities: personalized medicine, rare diseases, human bio-monitoring, mental health, comparative effectiveness research, advanced technologies, e/m-health, robotics, patient empowerment, active and healthy ageing, data security, big data, valorization, anti-microbial resistance, infectious diseases including vaccines, maternal and child health and the silver economy.
The calls topics under this new work program are broader and less prescriptive and there is a stronger focus on end-users, and on clinical trials. The objectives are to achieve the following:
- improve our understanding of the causes and mechanisms underlying health, healthy ageing and disease;
- improve our ability to monitor health and to prevent, detect, treat and manage disease;
- support older persons as they try to remain active and healthy; and
- test and demonstrate new models and tools for health and care delivery.
The 2016-2017 Work Programme also makes use of the whole range of instruments available: collaborative research and innovation actions, SME instruments, prizes, innovative financing, program co-funding, ERA-NET Co-Funds and coordinated and support action, including support for Joint Programming Initiatives (JPIs).
It also builds strong links and synergies with activities undertaken by the Innovative Medicines Initiative, the European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership and the Active and Assisted Living Programme. Topics in this work program also respond to the priorities of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing.
Applicants are encouraged to include the international dimension in their proposal where relevant. The use of European health research infrastructures (including e-infrastructures) is also encouraged when appropriate.
The first calls were launched on 20 October and more calls will be launched throughout 2016.
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- More information on the calls and how to apply, visit the Horizon 2020 portal: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/home.html