• NAME: JANE

  • FULL NAME: Joint Action on Networks of Expertise 

  • PROJECT NUMBER: 101075328

  • FUNDING BODY: European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HADEA)

  • WEBSITE: https://jane-project.eu/

  • DURATION: 1st of October 2022 till 1st of October 2024

  • PROJECT COORDINATOR: Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Dei Tumori, Milan (Italy)

  • Nº of consortium partners: 16 

One of the flagship initiatives of Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan for ensuring high standards in cancer care is the establishment, by 2025, of an EU network linking recognised National Comprehensive Cancer Centres in every Member State.

JANE will prepare and create new seven Networks of Expertise to cover crucial areas in cancer care, bringing together the best resources available in Europe in each specific field, in order to support National Networks and Comprehensive Cancer Centres. The new Networks of Expertise will provide evidence in healthcare and clinical decision-making, research (clinical, translational and epidemiological), defining state-of-the-art and clinical practice guidelines, training professionals and patients, ensuring equitable access to available resources and having an impact on public policy, all to maximise and shape the EU’s investment and vision in terms of research infrastructure and platforms.

OBJETIVOS GENERALES:  

  1. Prepare everything needed to launch the Networks of Expertise, from defining their missions and objectives, studying their design and working out selection criteria for participants, to providing all items to set up calls for expressions of interest;
  2. Critically evaluate existing models of current EU networking, research infrastructures and platforms, future networking among comprehensive cancer centres, as well as technologically relevant aspects for optimal functioning of networking in general, in order to properly shape the new Networks of Expertise.

Seven new Networks of Expertise:

    • complex and poor prognosis cancer
    • palliative care
    • survivorship and comorbidities
    • personalised primary prevention
    • omic technologies for healthcare
    • high-tech care facilities
    • adolescents and young adults with cancer

The action has 16 work packages distributed as follows: 4 transversal work packages (coordination, dissemination, evaluation and sustainability), 7 corresponding to each Network of Expertise, and 5 transversal tasks which, according to the Grant Agreement, are WP12 to WP16.

A single EU network is expected to help beat cancer in a more equitable way by following a comprehensive modern approach, including showcasing the highest international standards of cancer care, ensuring high-quality cancer care across the EU, and enabling patients to benefit from high-quality diagnosis, treatment and care in the EU and as close to home as possible.

Kronikgune is the competent authority for Spain and leaders of the following Work Packages (WP):

WP4 Sustainability

Objectives:

  • Ensure that the established Networks of Expertise assemble the best knowledge, skills and facilities available in Europe.
  • Support Networks of Expertise creation by focusing on strategies to guarantee their sustainability and aligning them with European and national policies.
  • Contribute to the improvement of EU health care cancer networks ensuring a long-term sustainable model for Networks of Expertise.
  • Generate policy recommendations and guidance to facilitate the sustainability of Networks of Expertise, possibly extending also to other health care networks in the EU.

WP12 Integration between health care and research

Objectives:

  • Mapping current challenges in the integration between healthcare and research in the perception of clinical researchers and physicians.
  • Analyzing existing opportunities to conduct large low-cost clinical trials and generating real-world evidence through networking.
  • Improving the coordination of research by providing effective and efficient mechanisms by means of the new Networks of Expertise.
  • Widening participation in research and improving the efficiency of research.
  • Coordination: Irantzu Izko (till 8th of January 2023), Sarah Berrocoso, Dolores Verdoy, Ane Fullaondo, Esteban de Manuel (till 15th of January 2023). 
  • Principal: Mª Blanca Segurola, Mª Ángeles Sala, Sara Arévalo 

List of consortium partners: 

  1. Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Dei Tumori (INT) Italy
  2. Sciensano (Sciensano) Belgium
  3. Hrvatski Zavod Za Javno Zdravstvo (CIPH) Croatia
  4. Institut National Du Cancer Gip (INCA) France
  5. Bundesministerium Fuer Gesundheit (BMG) Germany
  6. Ethniko Idryma Erevnon (NHRF) Greece
  7. Orszagos Onkologiai Intezet (OOI) Hungary
  8. Lietuvos Respublikos Sveikatos Apsaugos Ministerija (SAM LT) Lithuania
  9. Ministry For Health – Government Of Malta (MFH) Malta
  10. Oslo Universitetssykehus Hf (OUS) Norway
  11. Narodowy Instytut Onkologii Im. Marii Sklodowskiej-Curie – Panstwowy Instytut Badawczy (MSCI) Poland
  12. Ministerio Da Saude – Republica Portuguesa (DGH) Portugal
  13. Institutul Oncologic Prof Dr Ion Chiricuta Cluj-Napoca (IOCN) Romania
  14. Onkoloski Institut Ljubljana (OIL) Slovenia
  15. Asociación Instituto De Investigación En Servicios De Salud Kronikgune (Kronikgune) Spain
    1. ICO, Catalan Institute of Oncology
    2. IDIVAL, Marqués de Valdecilla Research Institute
    3. CIBER, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red (Biomedical Research Networking Centre Consortium)
    4. HSJD, San Joan de Déu Hospital
    5. SAS, Andalusian Health Service

      16. Fakultni Nemocnice V Motole (UH MOTOL) Czechia