The Cancer Info Portal Project

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  • Meet Christian Buggedei: How to build a portal – part two

    Meet Christian Buggedei: How to build a portal – part two

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    Meet Christian Buggedei from the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité. He’s part of the team coordinating work to define and build the EU-CiP – European Cancer Information Portal.

    In the video, Christian explains how the project is uniting technical and non technical experts at a critical point – defining what the portal should do and how it will work.

    This is part two of a series of videos called ‘how to build a portal‘ that explores the development of the EU-CiP. Catch up with part one, when the coordinators of EU-CiP discuss their vision for the project.

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    About the EU-CiP project

    The goal of this project is to build EUropean Cancer Information Portals (EU-CiPs) which will provide reliable and easy-to-access cancer information for citizens in Europe. This will help people find information they need and make informed decisions about their life and healthcare.

    Cancer can affect everyone, either directly or by affecting a loved person.The EU-CiP project will create a home for information about prevention, diagnosis, treatment and everything else related to cancer. We want to reach patients, their caretakers, families, friends and everyone who might be confronted with cancer during their life.

  • EU-CiP, CANDLE and UNCAN-Connect news roundup

    EU-CiP, CANDLE and UNCAN-Connect news roundup

    The EU-CiP project is closely aligned with other European Cancer projects like CANDLE and UNCAN-CONNECT. These three, in particular, are fundamental to building the architecture to support future proof improvements in cancer research data and patient support.


    This article is a roundup of recent news across these Cancer Mission projects as they finish their first calendar year.

    CANDLE

    The following items are from CANDLE’s social media where we recommend a follow to receive news first. You can also bookmark the project website.

    • The CANDLE team contributed to SHINE 2Europe‘s webinar “Building Bridges in Digital Health Innovation”. [read more]
    • The Dutch National Cancer Data Node (NCDN-NL), established with support from CANDLE, convened over 40 national oncology leaders on 8 December to shape an EHDS-ready cancer data infrastructure. Take a look at the event and access the slides.
    • The team held the first Persona Workshop with the EU cancer stakeholder community. This session aimed to build personas mapped to the functions of the National Cancer Data Nodes and the European Health Data Space context. [read more].

    UNCAN-Connect

    EU-CiP

  • 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.
    How EU-CiP works
  • How to build a cancer information portal – part one: Harald Wagener and Roland Eils introduce the EU-CiP project

    How to build a cancer information portal – part one: Harald Wagener and Roland Eils introduce the EU-CiP project

    This article is 137 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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    This is the first in a series called ‘How to Build a Portal‘.

  • 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 Charité 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.

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    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