Combating cancer

• Establishing facilities and developing initiatives for the exploitation of research on cancer in Europe; encouraging the development of evidence-based guidelines for good clinical practice and improved public health strategies by accelerating the translation of existing research results into applications.
• Supporting clinical research, particularly clinical trials, aimed at validating new and improved interventions.
• Supporting translational research aimed at bringing basic knowledge through to applications in clinical practice and public health. 
  Other issues related to cancer, such as ageing and cancer, regional differences, psycho-social aspects, palliative care and guidance to support groups.

Sixth Framework Programme:

 
Specific Support Actions:

Aims and Objectives:
Their main purposes is:

• To support the implementation of FP6
• To potentially help the preparation of future Framework Programme
• To stimulate, encourage and facilitate the participation of:
• SMEs
• Small research teams
• Newly developed and remote research centres
• Organizations from the Candidate Countries 

Project components:
The projects within the priority themes may cover the following for example:

• Conferences
• Seminars
• Studies and analysis
• Working and Expert Groups
• Operational support and dissemination
• Information and communication
• or a combination of these as appropriate.  

Type of funding: