Personalised Medicine
Partnership website: https://www.eppermed.eu/
The European Partnership for Personalised Medicine (EP PerMed) aims to align and promote regional and national priority setting and funding for research and implementation projects in the field of personalised medicine among the EU Member States, regions and beyond.
EP PerMed builds on over 15 years of EU-funded consortia, initiatives & events, but also on a wide range of national & European regional activities and efforts in all areas of the personalised medicine value continuum.
Key figures
- Duration: 10 years
- Total budget (national / regional plus EC contribution): Approximately 370 Mio. Euro
- Partners: More than 50, mainly funding organisations from Europe and beyond
Participation Flanders
Grant Agreement negotiations for EP PerMed are ongoing. It is expected that the following Flemish partner organisations to participate in the Partnership:
| Belgium (Flanders) | Government of Flanders – Vlaams Gewest | https://www.vlaanderen.be/ |
| Belgium (Flanders) | Research Foundation – Flanders – Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek | https://www.fwo.be/en/ |
| Belgium (Flanders) | Flanders innovation & entrepreneurship – Fonds voor Innoveren en Ondernemen | https://www.vlaio.be/en |
The main objectives will be
- to ensure a faster uptake of research and innovation results into clinical practice, secure Europe's position in state-of-the-art healthcare provision
- to facilitate a shift from a ‘one size fits all’ approach towards taking into account individual differences and better utilising the accumulating data to manage health, disease and its predisposition
- to contribute towards more sustainable healthcare systems and independence in data intensive healthcare
Results will translate into delivery of better prevention and healthcare services, improved health outcomes for patients and citizens, and increased satisfaction with health systems.
Open & closed calls
A first joint transnational call for proposals under EP PerMed on "Identification or Validation of Targets for Personalised Medicine Approaches (PMTargets)" was launched in January 2024. The deadline for pre-proposals has passed. The result of the call for proposals is not expected before October 2024. First projects are expected to start end of 2024, beginning of 2025.
Information pages for stakeholders in Flanders:
- dedicated VLAIO webpage
- dedicated FWO webpage
You can register to EP PerMed's newsletter to be kept informed about future calls for proposals here.
Timeline & key documents
- More information about the Partnership proposal (February 2022)
- In April 2023, the Strategic Research & Innovation Agenda for the Personalised Medicine Partnership was published. The SRIA will support a wide range of stakeholders and experts to further develop programs, activities, and research towards personalised medicine and care, as well as prevention.
- In October 2023, during the Spanish Presidency conference on Personalised Medicine, a pre-launch ceremony of the partnership took place. The presentation is available here.
PerMed-related initiatives supporting EP PerMed
Within EP PerMed, several earlier European Initiatives are joined under one roof. It will continue the activities of ERA PerMed in funding transnational innovation and research projects. In addition, EP PerMed will closely together with the International Consortium for Personalised Medicine ICPerMed for overarching strategic activities.
'ICPerMed Family' of Coordination and Support Actions:
- 4 dedicated to the communication & cooperation with
- Latin American & Caribbean countries (EULAC PerMed)
- China (Sino-EU PerMed/IC2PerMed)
- Africa (EU-Africa PerMed)
- 2 focus/ed on European Regions (R4PerMed/ SAPHIRE)
- 2 with research connected topics (HEcoPerMed/PERMIT)
- 1 on Personalised Prevention (PROPHET)
Contact
Commission services: RTD-EP-PERSONALISED-MEDICINE@ec.europa.eu
The Partnership: eppermed@dlr.de
What are partnerships?
Partnerships group the EC and private and/or public partners, to coordinate and streamline the research & innovation initiatives and funding in some selected key domains.
How to use partnerships?
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orientation
Partnerships publish strategic documents, e.g. outlining the main research and innovation challenges or key focus points. -
networking
Partnerships often organise events, such as info days, brokerage events, etc. Meet potential partners and learn about the nuances that are not visible in the official documents. -
ecosystem analysis
Partnerships typically have an advisory board, and publish impact studies of previous actions. These are good sources of information to uncover the main R&D&I players in the domain. -
steering the agenda
Partnerships collaborate with the EC on outlining the strategy and the future funding opportunities in their domain, based on input from industry, academia, and other stakeholders.
Testimonial
Miricle - Mine Risk Clearance for Europe
The Miricle project, ‘Mine Risk Clearance for Europe’, obtained funding under the European Defence Industrial Development programme call ‘Underwater control contributing to resilience at sea’. The main objective of the project was to achieve a European and sovereign capacity in future mine warfare and create a path for the next generation ‘made in Europe’ countermeasure solutions. In order to realise this objective, Miricle addressed various stages: studies, design, prototyping and testing. These stages inter alia included the successful testing of an XL Unmanned Underwater Vehicle, a protototyped mine disposal system and multiple innovative systems to detect buried mines. Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), was one of the five Belgian partners in the consortium. Within the project, VLIZ was able to forward its research on the acoustic imaging of the seabed to spatially map and visualize buried structures and objects - in this case buried mines - in the highest possible detail. VLIZ also led the work on ‘Port and Offshore Testing’, building on the expertise of the institute in the field of marine operations and technology.
