Call for Service Provision for Early Career Researchers (Europe)

Objective

• The primary objective of this call is to empower early career scientists through access to research services and training in order to advance their scientific merits and careers.

Benefits

• Free of charge access to canSERV services (equipment, expertise, resources) offered by the canSERV consortium.
• Transnational services comprising the following fields: disease models, advanced cutting-edge imaging and structural biology technologies, biomarkers research and development, novel therapeutics developments, complex clinical trial design and planning support, personalized oncology implementation pipelines and recommendations, and regulatory support and tools to analyse the socioeconomic dimension of research activities, open digital research services, access to human samples and data, ethical, legal and socio-economic (ELSI) dimension and training.

Funding Information

• The indicative overall budget for this call is EUR 500,000.

Eligible Projects

• Should address any topic of cancer research and can vary from discovery science to translational science, translation into personalized oncology or clinical research.
• Should address at least one of the four strategic goals for the Cancer Mission (understanding of cancer; prevention and early detection; diagnosis and treatment; quality of life for patients and their families).

Eligibility Criteria

• Be an early career scientist in the career stage 3 and 4, for example first-stage researchers (PhD students, junior researchers without PhD) or recognised researchers (postdocs, assistant professors, young investigators) as defined in Frascati 2015 manual.
• Choose only services that are provided in a different country from where you, or the majority of your research group, are based.
• Agree that data generated from the chosen services will comply with FAIR principles (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable) making it available to other researchers while allowing for IP protection (in line with the EU’s open science policy). This will enable rapid execution of Cross-European federated analyses of cancer-related data.

Evaluation Criteria

• Scientific evaluation will take into consideration the following three criteria:
  • Scientific merit and/or clinical impact of the research proposal
  • Justification to the solicited service
  • Feasibility of the proposal

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