Open Call for Transnational Service Provision

Open Call for Transnational Service Provision

Under the canSERV Open Call researchers are welcome to apply to a portfolio of services offered by canSERV to address the research needs of the entire oncology developmental pipeline.

Submission Deadline: 15 July 2025, 2pm CEST.

Your research project

• Can vary from basic discovery science to translational science and translation into personalised oncology.
• Is expected to address at least one of the four strategic goals of the Cancer Mission [1] (understanding of cancer; prevention and early detection; diagnosis and treatment; quality of life for patients and their families).
• Can benefit from requested services, taking into account that your requested services must be finalised by the end of May 2026. Please keep this in mind when filling out the application form, particularly when outlining your project timeline and the use of the requested services. See also FAQ Section “Time frames for the service provision”

If granted, you will benefit from:

• Free of charge access to canSERV service(s) (equipment, expertise, resources) offered by the canSERV consortium.
• Transnational services comprising the following fields:
  • Disease models
  • Advanced technologies for personalised oncology
  • Biomarkers research development and validation
  • New therapeutic solutions
  • Accelerated translation into personalised oncology clinical practice
  • Open digital research services
  • Access to human samples and data
  • Clinical trials and design Ethical, legal and socio-economic dimensions
  • Training

A detailed service list is available in the canSERV Service Catalogue.

For this Call, you should:

• Select the service(s) you would like to use from the Catalogue.
• Choose only services that are provided in a different country where you, or the majority of your research group, are based. See “Transnational Access” for exceptions.
• Agree that data generated from the chosen services will comply with FAIR principles (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable) making it available to other researchers while allowing for IP protection (in line with the EU’s open science policy). This will enable rapid execution of cross-European federated analyses of cancer-related data.
  The indicative overall budget for this call is EUR 1.500.000.

The Call is planned to remain open until 15 July 2025, 2pm CEST.

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