JTC 2025 - “Better Care Closer to Home: Enhancing Primary and Community Care”
WEBINAR: THCS offers will offer an information webinar to introduce the JTC 2025 on 17 December 2024 (14:00-16:00 CET / 8:00-10:00am ET). Click here to register for the webinar.
The European Partnership on Transforming Health and Care Systems (THCS) brings the opportunity to coordinate and optimize research and innovation efforts in Europe and its partner countries supporting the much-needed transformation of health and care systems.
Under this umbrella, the third Joint Transnational Call for proposals “Better care closer to home: Enhancing Primary and Community Care” aims to improve primary and community health and care systems, providing policymakers with knowledge and tools to manage transitions within the primary and community care sector. Projects funded under this call will deliver promising financial, organizational, and practice-based service innovations that promote the transformation of health and care systems and contribute to faster exchange of best practices across different countries and regions.
To align regional and national research strategies and funding activities, promote excellence, reinforce the competitiveness of European players while fostering EU cooperation and enhance European collaboration with non-EU countries, 34 funding organisations have agreed to launch the Joint Transnational Call 2025 (JTC2025) for collaborative, innovative research projects co-funded by the European Union. The funding organisations participating in this call particularly wish to promote innovative, interdisciplinary collaboration and encourage transnational collaboration.
Proposals are submitted by a transnational "consortium." The consortium must include at least three (3) eligible partners from three different countries whose funding organisations participate in the call. At least two (2) members of the consortium should be legal entities from two different EU Member States or Horizon Europe associated countries. Each of these partners must be eligible and request funding from the respective funding organisation. All three legal entities must be independent of each other. Funders from the following countries are participating in this call: Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland.
In Canada, CIHR is funding Canadian participation in this call. The maximum funding amount is $300,000 CAD per Canadian partner. CIHR's additional eligibility for this call is follows: Projects must be focused on the health and care of older persons and/or their caregivers and use a Patient-Oriented Research approach. Patient-oriented research (POR) involves engaging patients, caregivers, families, communities as well as knowledge users and decision makers as partners in co-creating research. This partnered approach is a key element of research excellence and increases the quality, relevance, and impact of research evidence, increasing its uptake into health policy and practice. Projects therefore must include a Patient Engagement Plan with details on how People with Lived and Living Experience (PWLLE) and/or communities, including Indigenous, will be part of the research team, designing and executing the research and subsequent knowledge mobilization. For more information, please also refer to SPOR’s Patient Engagement Framework.. Please note, a parallel submission to CIHR is not required.
STAGE 1
- External Pre-Proposal Deadline - January 30, 2025
- ORS Internal Deadline - January 15, 2025
STAGE 2
- Full Proposal Deadline (by invitation) - June 19, 2025
- ORS Internal Deadline - June 5, 2025