FP7 Health Call 2012 - in brief...
The Enterprise Europe Network hosted a heads-up information day recently on the upcoming FP7 Health 2012 Call. Anticipated publication date of the final version is July 2011. A draft version is available on the Cordis website http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/health/
From the information day, the programme is looking increasingly for SME involvement with project criteria specifying minimum % contributions that must go to SME partners. We heard from a local microSME - The Medical Device Company - that it is working with Austrian clinicians on a FP7-funded project. Historically, and compared with other EU states, UK SMEs have been relatively poor at winning FP7 funding - maybe application rates are low?
You probably/possibly don't want to read the whole draft orientation paper, so the key themes to attract your interest are:
- Detection and diagnosis of disease - rare diseases; infectious diseases; diseases of ageing, e.g., digestive and joint chronic inflammation.
- Large-scale data-gathering and processing - patient stratification/personalised medicine; systems medicine addressing clinical needs; multifactorial disease and co-morbidities .
- Innovative therapeutic approaches and interventions - organ transplantation and bioartificial organs; targeted nucleic acid delivery for therapeutic and prophylactic use; orphan drugs for rare diseases - preclinical and clinical studies; clinical studies in type I diabetes; technology approaches in sensory-impairment; prevention and treatment in infectious disease co-morbidities; translation of stem cell-based therapies.
- Healthcare systems and public health, including health technology assessments.
A pared down document summarising the DRAFT technical aspects (taken from the orientation paper on the Cordis site) is here: FP7 Health 2012. You can read the full titles in two pages, and click through to a couple of paragraphs more information. If you're interested at that stage, you should look at the draft orientation paper to get an idea about eligibility and funding.
Lastly, there's support locally to help you get participate, and find partners/ be found by partners.
