Category: Project news

  • NEW: Explainer on how EU-CiP will work

    NEW: Explainer on how EU-CiP will work

    This article is 184 words and a one-and-a-half-minute read.

    Creating a central hub – the cancer information portal – to house scientifically sound, accessible and reliable content and then working with member states to pilot national portals is not a simple process.

    The coordination team have broken down the stages of the project for you to explore in more depth.

    Puzzle pieces

    On the new dedicated page, you can see how the pieces of the EU-CiP puzzle fit together including:

    • An introduction to the partners
    • How the content creation group and board will curate accurate information on all stages of a cancer patient’s journey
    • Explanation on how technology will be used to create an information portal serving diverse needs with reliable, evidence-based information in lay-term language across Europe
    • Development and launch of the pilot portals
    • How social sciences and humanities (SSH) play a central role to address challenges of health literacy promotion, patient empowerment, and information accessibility
    • Exploration of a transparent governance structure
    • Information on EU-CiP as foundation layer to the European Cancer Patient Digital Center
    • Links between sister projects (CANDLE, UNCAN-Connect) as part of EU Mission: Cancer and Europe’s Beating Cancer plan.
  • Meet EU-CiP’s Harald Wagener and Roland Eils to hear about the cancer information portal project

    Meet EU-CiP’s Harald Wagener and Roland Eils to hear about the cancer information portal project

    This article is 124 words and a one-minute read.

    Meet Harald Wagener and Prof. Roland Eils, Berlin Institute of Health, who are coordinating EU-CiP. They are two key people behind the European Cancer Patient Digital Centre (ECPDC) concept which this project is a foundation layer.

    The concept of a ‘portal’ is abstract but the result will improve everyday lives of EU citizens and their families dealing with a cancer diagnosis and treatment.

    In this video, Harald and Roland introduce the #CancerInfoPortal project and how it will build EUropean Cancer Information Portals (EU-CiPs). They explain how the portals will provide reliable and easy-to-access cancer information – a simple but important step to equitable and trusted sources. The portals will help people find information they need and make informed decisions about their life and healthcare.

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  • The #CancerInfoPortal project launches in Berlin

    The #CancerInfoPortal project launches in Berlin

    This article is 141 words and a one-minute read.

    The EU-CIP project – part of the European Cancer Patient Digital Centre – launched at an in-person event at CharitĂ© Universitätsmedizin, Berlin on 12-13 June 2025.

    The EU Cancer Information Portal (or #CancerInfoPortal for short) will be developed as the home for multilingual, reliable and easy to understand information for cancer patients and their families and carers in Europe.

    A large group of people stand on a staircase. They are looking at the camera and smiling.

    Behind the portal’s development are 40 partners from 18 European countries. Here are just some of them!

    At the launch, partners got straight to work in preparatory workshops, welcomed strategic input from the European Commission and mapped out the first few steps.

    We will share progress of the portal’s development here and on our social media channels – listed below