CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

FICAN South Project Call 2025

The Southern Finland Regional Cancer Center FICAN South is one of the five regionals Cancer Centers of FICAN (the National Cancer Center Finland).
The aim of the Cancer Centers is to develop cancer prevention, diagnostics, treatment, and rehabilitation, as well as cancer research and education as integrated regional units.

We are opening the project call for 2025 and will fund projects aligned with the focus areas of FICAN South.
The project funding for FICAN South will be managed by HUS and will be available until the end of 2025.

The applicant(s) must be an employee of one of the FICAN South partners (HUS, University of Helsinki, The Wellbeing services county of South Karelia, The Wellbeing services county of Kymenlaakso, The Wellbeing services county of Päijät-Häme) and their duties must be related to cancer prevention, diagnostics, treatment or rehabilitation, cancer research, and/or cancer-related education.

A total of EUR 238 000 in project funding can be granted for the year 2025.

Funding can be applied for smaller cooperation projects, EUR 15 000 – 35 000/project, a total of EUR 168 000. In addition, funding is available, totaling EUR 70,000, which will be allocated to new or ongoing clinical research projects. The official permits for the clinical research project must be in order.

The project must involve actors from at least two contracting parties of FICAN South (HUS, University of Helsinki, The Wellbeing services counties of Päijät-Häme, Kymenlaakso, South Karelia). Applications involving participants or coordinators from the wellbeing services counties will be prioritized. The wider national applicability of the project is considered an
advantage for the application.

Priority areas for project funding in 2025:

  • enabling clinical/translational cancer research that closely benefits patients uniformly throughout the FICAN South region
  • to introduce new clinical and diagnostic methods enabling individual cancer treatment throughout the FICAN South area
  • to design and implement cancer treatment pathways and regional treatment chains
  • to support and develop treatment guidelines
  • to projects focusing on patient support and/or rehabilitation
  • to improve the quality, effectiveness, and patient safety of cancer treatments in the FICAN South area

Applications must be submitted on the Webropol form.  Link to the application form:

https://link.webropolsurveys.com/S/37791207F1D484A2

The project proposal must include the following free-form annexes:

  • Annex 1: Project plan (maximum length 1.5 pages,
    (font size 11, line spacing 1, word doc. or pdf.)
  • Annex 2: Project budget plan (word doc, pdf. or excel-file)

The Call for applications closes on Monday 02.12.2024 at 15:00 (Finnish time)

The Project applications will be evaluated by a separate independent working group.

In the evaluation of applications, emphasis is placed on the collaboration between the contracting parties of FICAN South and particularly on the involvement of the Wellbeing services counties in the projects. The project funding is intended to encourage clinicians, researchers and healthcare professionals interested in clinical research and development projects to launch collaborative projects in the FICAN South area. The broader national applicability of the project is considered an advantage for the application. The concrete benefits for the patient achieved by the project will be assessed. Applicants’ other significant funding will be assessed in the FICAN South funding decision.

Beneficiaries are required to report project costs on a quarterly basis to FICAN South.
The granted project funding, which is dependent on the budget approvals of the contracting parties of FICAN South, will be available until the end of 2025.

Further information: Mika Mustonen, director, FICAN South, mika.mustonen@hus.fi
+358 40 620 9879