Support to the Mission Board on 'Fighting Cancer in Horizon Europe'

FOD Cancer

FOD I Completed

Client: DG RTD
Lead organisation: AIT
Year: 2019
Start date: 2019-10-17
Duration: 6 months

Project summary

The foresight project Support to the Mission Board Cancer focused on the contribution of foresight knowledge to support the reflections of the Mission Board concerning the identification of missions within the broader theme “Cancer”. The EU has launched several strategies and programmes to fight and prevent cancer and to help cancer patients. Thus, such a Horizon Europe Mission should contribute to the goals of the Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan: “A mission in this area will help set common goals aiming to reverse these frightening trends in cancer. By joining efforts across Europe, more people would live without cancer, more cancer patients would be diagnosed earlier, would suffer less and have a better quality of life after treatment.” The work was carried out in interaction with the Mission Board members and responsible Commission services. The foresight approach comprised scoping of trends and drivers for cancer, two future health scenarios targeted at fighting cancer and roadmaps of events and milestones in the future of fighting cancer. It formed part of the basis of the vision for a Horizon Europe Mission on cancer, outlined by the Mission Board in “Conquering cancer, mission possible” (2020).

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Final report

European Commission: Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, Giesecke, S., Lipponen, S., Jongh, T. d., Cuhls, K. et al., Mission area – Cancer – Foresight on demand brief in support of the Horizon Europe mission board, Publications Office of the European Union, 2021, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2777/17186

Support to the Mission Board on 'Fighting Cancer in Horizon Europe'

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