Opportunity profile: Europe-wide child-cancer call

European Science Foundation chief executive gives the lowdown on a unique scheme

Top tips

• The scheme is for projects unlikely to garner funding elsewhere, including at charities that focus mainly on adult cancer
• Special attention should be paid to quality of life and adherence issues associated with paediatric patients
• The funders are in favour of a ‘high risk, high gain’ approach
• Clinical trial applications should involve collaboration with other countries; translational projects do not have to

The European Science Foundation is a non-profit organisation for the promotion of science and has experience of assisting on funding calls. It also runs the Fight Kids Cancer scheme, funded by four charities: France’s Imagine for Margo, Belgium’s Kick Cancer, Luxembourg’s Fondatioun Kriibskrank Kanner and Italy’s FIAGOP.