GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

Proposals will support the provision of trans-national and/or virtual access to researchers and training for using the infrastructures, as well as the activities to improve, customise and integrate the services the infrastructures provide. Specifically, the Call will provide access to research infrastructure services and to users in order to support their research projects related with the development of new or adapted prevention and/or intervention tools and measures, such as new or adapted diagnostic procedures and therapies, drugs, vaccines, clinical disease management or disease vector control, or evidence-based public health, behavioural as well as socio-economic measures.

Priority should be given to research projects targeting newly emerging virus variants, focusing on their detection, characterisation, surveillance and assessment (changes in transmissibility and disease manifestation) and on the adaptation of intervention and prevention measures (medication, vaccines, public health measures) which also requires additional regulatory and clinical trials support.

Furthermore, the Call should cover services that support research on transmission of pathogens from animals to humans (or vice versa animals as host reservoir), including vector-borne transmission. It is also essential to operate with effective links such as EOSC, PHIRI etc. to epidemics risk assessment and management bodies like ECDC, WHO, OIE. As a result, will secure a possible future EU Health Emergency preparedness.

The services of each proposal should include an outreach plan to be advertised to targeted research communities and, if applicable, to relevant industries, including SMEs.