Better care closer to home: Enhancing primary and community care

A two-step submission and evaluation procedure has been established for joint applications: preproposals and full-proposals. In both phases, one joint proposal document shall be prepared by the partners of a joint transnational project. Pre-proposals must be submitted by the project coordinator to the JCS via the electronic submission system no later than January 30, 2025 at 14:00 CET. The proposals must be written in English. A template for the pre-proposal form can be downloaded from the THCS website (https://www.thcspartnership.eu/). Pre-proposals that do not use the respective template will be declared ineligible. The decision on which applicants are selected to submit a full-proposal will be communicated to applicants solely by the JCS from April 15, 2025. The JCS will send a full-proposal application template to the coordinators of those research pre-proposals invited to the full-proposal stage, as well as make it available on the THCS website (https://www.thcspartnership.eu/). Full-proposals must be submitted by the project coordinator to the JCS via the electronic submission system no later than June 19, 2025 at 14:00 CEST. Please note that joint full-proposals will only be accepted from applicants explicitly invited by the JCS to submit full-proposals. Full-proposals that do not use the respective template will be declared ineligible.

Applicants from some regions/countries may be required to submit the additional regional/national proposal or other information (in some cases before the deadline of this call). Ethical and legal issues must be addressed in each application, according to the relevant region’s/country’s regulations. The THCS CSC will take all lawful steps to ensure the confidentiality of the information and documents obtained during the joint call evaluation and selection procedure.

The selection of projects is based on the principle of peer review. Experts in the field(s), hereinafter referred to as reviewers, carry out written evaluations at two stages of evaluation: the pre-proposal and full-proposal stages. In addition, the reviewers will participate in a peer review panel (PRP) meeting at both the pre-proposal and full-proposal stage. Proposals for both sub-topics will be evaluated in the same PRPs and compete for the same funding. Reviewers operate independently and confidentially, without exchange with third parties. They only have at their disposal the information included in the submitted proposal on the closing date and time of the call. Each proposal will be reviewed by at least three reviewers with qualifying expertise fitting the topic of the submitted application.

The reviewers will assess the proposals and provide a written evaluation form with scores and comments for each evaluation criterion (see 10.5 Evaluation criteria).

Applicants should contact their corresponding regional/national representative to enquire about eligibility with their respective funding organisations prior to applying (see Annex. I). For additional information, please contact the JCS. An online Information Webinar for applicants will be held on 17 December 14:00-16:00 CET. Interested applicants are encouraged to register for the webinar on the following link: https://www.zonmw.nl/en/form/thcs-webinar-march-12th. The webinar will cover general information about the THCS partnership, explanation of the call topic and call procedure, giving an example project, explanation of the partner search tool. The webinar will conclude with a questions and answers session.