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.
- CANDLE shared a series of posts describing their work packages (stages of the project). Here is the post for work package one.
- 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].
- Stay up-to-date with CANDLE news directly to your inbox with the newsletter. Here’s the first one.
UNCAN-Connect
- Explore what happened at the UNCAN-Connect kick-off event with this day one post.
- The team have begun a partner highlight series of posts to profile the organisations behind the project and the roles they play. Here is the first instalment.
EU-CiP
- The team put together a plain language explainer on how the project will achieve the European cancer information portal and support the national portal pilots. The story about this is on the website and this was the social post.
- EU-CiP coordinators, Harald Wagener and Prof. Roland Eils, Berlin Institute of Health Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, took time to discuss to build the #EUCancerInfoPortal in a special audiogram. It was also released on the project socials.

