New Horizon Europe (HORIZON) project
UNCAN-Connect
Decentralized Collaborative Network for Advancing Cancer Research and Innovation
Funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe Programme for Research and Innovation (2021-2027), the UNCAN-Connect project (Decentralized Collaborative Network for Advancing Cancer Research and Innovation) addresses the HORIZON-MISS-2024-CANCER-01 Call. The project will run for 60 months, starting on September 1, 2025, and ending in August 2030, with a total budget of nearly €30 million(€29,935,701.50).
Coordinated by the University of Tartu (Tartu Ülikool) in Estonia, UNCAN-Connect brings together a strong multidisciplinary consortium of 53 organizations, from 19 countries across Europe and internationally. The project aims to develop a decentralized collaborative network to advance cancer research and innovation, enabling secure, interoperable, and ethical access to cancer-related health data across the European Union.
The project will operationalise a collaborative framework that addresses both technical and governance components. It will facilitate seamless access to cancer data, promote open science, and revolutionize cancer research and treatment by co-developing an open-source platform – “UNCAN.eu”. The platform will be tested through specific use cases focused on six major cancer types, including paediatric, lymphoid, pancreatic, ovarian, lung, and prostate cancer.
The UNCAN-Connect Consortium, joined bythe European Research Infrastructure BBMRI-ERIC, will also collaborate with initiatives such as EOSC4Cancer, CanSERV, and EUCANImage to ensure efficient data sharing, integration, and reusability across Member States.Ultimately, UNCAN-Connect aims to foster interoperability and accelerate scientific progress by supporting open science and strengthening collaboration among researchers, SMEs, patient representatives, public institutions, and citizens -thereby contributing to the EU Cancer Mission’s goal of improving cancer outcomes for all.
For more information, please contact:
| Kadi-Liis Veiman
Project Coordinator UTARTU – University of Tartu Ülikooli 18, 50090, Tartu, Estonia Email: kadi-liis.veiman@ut.ee Website: www.ut.ee/en, www.estcan.ee
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Nikolina Renić
WP Leader – Dissemination, Communication and Exploitation NETHUB – NetHub Accelerator Poljička cesta 71, 21000, Split, Croatia Email: nikolina.renic@nethub.hr Website: www.nethub.hr |
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