FP7 Health: Orientation Paper with Indicative List of Topics
The European Commission has published an orientation paper with an indicative list of topics that are expected to be funded under the FP7 2012 Health calls for proposals.
The call is managed by the Research and Innovation DG – Directorate Health. The final work programme is expected to be published on 20 July 2011, together with the launch of the FP7 Health calls for proposals. The orientation paper is now available (ftp://ftp.cordis.europa.eu/pub/fp7/health/docs/fp7-health-2012-orientation-paper-20110506_en.pdf).
In the Work Programme 2012, the area of System Medicine will focus on multidisciplinary research that will integrate a wide variety of biological, medical and clinical data to understand and model complex human diseases. A major goal of this call is to stimulate system biology approaches for medical and clinical application and therefore to establish the basis for system medicine. The indicative orientation of topics may include the following list:
SME-driven research applying systems biology approaches to address medical and clinical needs. Research should focus on the development, improvement and application of systems biology approaches to medical/clinical questions (maximum EU contribution EUR 3 000 000) This topic includes a specific focus on SMEs establishing favourable conditions for them to participate:
2 years duration;
Minimum of partners;
Minimum of 30% dedicated to SMEs over the 3 millions budget and; One report is required at the end of the project.
Systems medicine: Applying systems biology approaches for understanding multifactorial human diseases and their co-morbidities (EU contribution from EUR 6 000 000 to maximum EUR 12 000 000)
Preparing for the future research and innovation activities in systems medicine (maximum EU contribution EUR 3 000 000)
The direct contact for System Medicine is: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
In the Work Programme 2012, the area of Medical technologies will focus on organ transplantation and artificial organs, diagnostics for infectious diseases, management of diabetes, sensory impairment, chronic inflammatory disease and health technology assessments. The indicative orientation of topics may includes the following list:
Medical technology for transplantation and bioartificial organs. Work on transplantation may involve the use of cells, tissues or organs. Work on bioartificial organs should take into account the fact that these are composed of both biological and artificial components.
The direct contact for the area of medical technologies is: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Search for new evaluators for the EU Health theme (https://cordis.europa.eu/emmfp7/index.cfm)
The Health Directorate at the European Commission would wish to broaden its list of potential evaluators (in particular SME & industry representatives) required under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) and its 2012 specific programmes in the areas of systems biology/systems medicine (http://ec.europa.eu/research/health/large-scale/systems-medicine/index_en.html) & medical technologies (http://ec.europa.eu/research/health/biotechnology/biomedical-technologies/index_en.html).
The experts are expected to register until the end of June 2011 for the above scientific areas, via the EU FP7 registration system at the cordis web-site (https://cordis.europa.eu/emmfp7/index.cfm).
As the database is very broad, to avoid missing an opportunity, you are advised to also signal your registration by email to Christina Kyriakopoulou ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) for the above mentioned areas.