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EU4Health is the EU’s funding programme to deliver on EU health policy and respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
This action is meant to maintain and further develop the ‘EU Network of Youth Cancer Survivors’ to improve the quality of life of young cancer survivors.
This action supports the implementation of the Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan to support childhood cancer and implements the EU4Health Programme’s general objective to improve and foster health in the Union. The overall aim of maintaining the networks is to continue the collaboration between different existing stakeholder organisations and, through this network to further support social networking and further develop user friendly digital tools to easily access the information and improve the links amongst individuals, patients, children, adolescents and young adults (CAYA) cancer survivors, carers, researchers, and social and health professionals active in cancer prevention and care across the Union and countries associated to the EU4Health Programme. In addition, a healthy lifestyle promoting network could also be integrated in the mobile application and website.
Furthermore, the network will consider relapse / metastatic cancer. The network should support and provide all the necessary information related to metastatic cancer. The network will foster social networking, peer-support, coaching, knowledge exchange, and aims at improving:
a) the quality of life of survivors (including mental health, education and career support, follow-up care and transition);
b) the care for adolescents and young adults (AYA) with cancer (including metastatic cancer);
c) Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) along the whole treatment and survivorship trajectory;
d) promote healthy lifestyles through interaction and exchange with peers, with people with a similar disease history, with friends as well as with healthcare organisations.
The activities funded can be as follow:
a) Further development of the functionalities of the “EU Network of Youth Cancer Survivors”based on user needs;
b) the utilisation and incorporation of the results from previous EU-CAYAS-NET and OACCUs projects;
c) maintenance, update and improvement of the existent application(s) and website(s) (already created in previous EU-CAYAS-NET and OACCUs projects), and throughout these activities, the action should build up on and seek synergies with other actions funded under the EU4Health programme, such as for example the ‘Cancer Survivor Smart Card’ application;
d) (further) creation of a ‘virtual library', assuring access to reliable, accurate cancer information in different languages;
e) the development of strategies for the sustainability of the app’s/website’s functionalities, content, and financing;
f) the recommendation for the future and further maintenance/development of the “EU Network of Youth Cancer Survivors”;
g) Cover all EU languages;
h) Throughout the project, wide visibility of the actions/initiatives of the EU Network will be requested.
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
-be legal entities (public or private bodies)
-be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.: EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs)) or eligible non-EU countries: listed EEA countries and countries associated to the EU4Health Programme (list of participating countries).
Applicants can include: academia and education establishments, research institutes, hospitals, expert networks, civil society organisations, assocations, foundations, NGOs, and similar entities.
A consortium composed of at least 5 applicant organisations established in at least 5 different eligible countries.
36 months
The indicative project budget is €5,000,000 and the Commission expects to sign one grant agreement.
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