New coronavirus calls have been published
New coronavirus calls have been published
09 April 2021
Modified: 13 April 2021
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The Commission is mobilising €123 million from Horizon Europe, the new EU research and innovation programme, for urgent research into coronavirus variants. The aim of the call is to establish new and/or build on existing large-scale, multi-centre and regional or multinational cohorts, further develop promising therapeutic or vaccine candidates against SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 and support research infrastructures to speed up data sharing and deliver fast research support and expertise, to confront the coronavirus variants and to be ready for future epidemics.
The topics are the following:
- HORIZON-INFRA-2021-EMERGENCY-01: FAIR and open data sharing in support to European preparedness for COVID-19 and other infectious diseases
- HORIZON-INFRA-2021-EMERGENCY-02: Research infrastructure services for rapid research responses to COVID-19 and other infectious disease epidemics
- HORIZON-HLTH-2021-CORONA-01-01: Vaccines & therapeutic clinical trials to boost COVID-19 prevention and treatment
- HORIZON-HLTH-2021-CORONA-01-02: Cohorts united against COVID-19 variants of concern
Deadline: 06 May 2021.
More information: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_21_1548
Updated: 13 April 2021