[ Fight Kids Cancer programme | Research funding in pediatric cancer ]

The Fight Kids Cancer programme is a new funding instrument established by three European parents' and patients’ representative organisations that have joined forces to launch a call open to collaborative academic research projects on paediatric cancer.

The first call, which is endowed with EUR 3M, will support up to two early phase clinical trials and up to three translational research projects. The aim is to accelerate therapeutic innovation for children and adolescents with cancer. This call will cover the following three non-exclusive themes:

1. To produce world-leading science to advance knowledge of paediatric malignancies.
2. To support improved interdisciplinary knowledge, methods and collaborations for the issues of today.
3. To strengthen collaboration and the development of scientific capacity across Europe.

• Consortia of researchers.
• The PI must be based in one of these eligible countries (including Switzerland).
• Preferably, the PI should be employed at an institutions with a strong track record in paediatric cancer research.
• Partners from countries not listed as eligible are permitted, provided they are not delivering a core component of the project upon which major activities are dependent; such partners must be non-profit and should plan to leverage complementary funding.

• For early phase clinical trials: max EUR 1.5M per project.
• For translational research projects: max EUR 500K per project.