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About canSERV
Mission & Vision
Providing Cutting-Edge Cancer Research Services Across Europe
Our mission is to make cutting-edge and customised research services available to the cancer research community EU wide, enable innovative R&D projects and foster precision medicine for patients’ benefit across Europe.
Our mission is to make cutting-edge and customised research services available to the cancer research community EU wide, enable innovative R&D projects and foster precision medicine for patients’ benefit across Europe.
We envision establishing an open and sustainable collaborative network of research infrastructures (RIs) in oncology that will offer world-class services to researchers, universities, institutes, high-profile SMEs, and European research consortia.
By connecting, coordinating, and aligning existing oncology and complimentary RIs to provide services in a synergistic and transnational way , canSERV will capitalise on the critical mass of experts and services offered by RIs.
This will foster a defragmentation of a Europe-wide, integrated, network of RIs to strengthen Europe’s Research & Innovation (R&I) portfolio for tackling cancer and accelerate the developmental pipeline of oncology innovation in Europe.
Research infrastructures
Making science happen
To put science at the heart of societal and economic development, we need to devise strategies to push the limits of science in order to promote innovation, tackle societal challenges and deliver ambitious results.
In Europe, one such strategy is the development of research infrastructures – organisations that enable the research community to use specific facilities, resources and services, thus encouraging collaboration between scientists from different countries, economic sectors, research fields, and institutions.
What are Research Infrastructures?
Research infrastructure are organisations that enable the research community to use specific facilities, resources and services to conduct research and foster innovation.
Why do we need European research infrastructures?
Research infrastructures make science more effective and sustainable in the complex European backdrop of interactions among nation states. They join forces internationally to respond to global challenges and/or foster combining skills, data and efforts of the world’s best scientists.
They enable an organised, fair and transparent system to share knowledge and resources, and in doing so, they contribute to the pooling of data, facilities and equipment, thereby avoiding unnecessary duplication of effort.
By making high-quality facilities, resources and services available to everyone, research infrastructures ensure that science is driven by excellence and not by the research capacity of individual countries, economic sectors, or institutions. They also ensure that this excellence is aimed at solving bottlenecks, pushing forward the frontiers of scientific disciplines, and enabling transformative technological development.
Crossing borders
With the goal of elevating science across the globe, European research infrastructures include members and partners from other countries and regions and span different research fields, including biological and medical sciences, material sciences, social sciences and humanities, environmental sciences, energy and astronomy.
They are strongly supported by the European Commission, which has set up the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI), a strategic instrument to steer policy-making and facilitate the better use and development of research infrastructures.
Research infrastructures
The different types of Research Infrastructures
Distributed research infrastructure
A distributed research infrastructure is an organisation that enables the research community to use specific facilities, resources and services that are geographically scattered.
Single-sited research infrastructure
A single-sited research infrastructure is an organisation that enables the research community to use specific facilities, services and resources that are geographically localised in a single site (or a few complementary sites), even though its governance may include several countries.
Virtual infrastructure
A virtual infrastructure is an organisation that works as an e-infrastructure, providing electronic services, networks, archives, databases and databanks.
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What we offer
CanSERV offers a variety of Services
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Outcome, impact and sustainability
canSERV will sustain the network and unified resources of oncology service provision beyond the duration of the project. The long-term objectives are envisioned to reach far beyond the three-year project as part of canSERV’s overall sustainability concept:
canSERV will continue to connect, coordinate, align and provide existing and upcoming oncology-related services beyond the funding period. While focusing on cutting-edge services provided by current consortium partners in the first three years, thereafter we aim to integrate additional complementing services to extend the overall service portfolio.
In order to include additional cancer research-related services offered by Reasearch Infrastrcutures, we aim to enable onboarding of new RIs with incisive, complementary, services related to oncology within the network beyond the duration of the project. This will enhance sustainability, add value, and build and support structuring of European Research Area, ERA.
Therefore, close integration with contributing RIs for both discovery/findability and access management will ensure sustainability of the platform beyond the project duration.
This collective effort for a single catalogue and user-friendly Transnational Access (TNA) process will create the foundations for a prospective development of cancer research in Europe by defragmenting technological development strategies, sharing knowledge and training, and testing future technological breakthroughs that will define the identity of canSERV as an essential support to the ERA for providing effective solutions to the cancer patient community.
canSERV’s defragmentation of a Europe-wide, integrated, network of RIs will continuously foster cross-border, highly transdisciplinary research programmes and roadmaps in line with the EU Beating Cancer Plan and the Cancer Mission as well as becoming an integral part of UNCAN.eu programmes.
Beyond the project duration, we aim to maintain an open collaborative network of RIs, with joint calls for oncology-related projects and/or programmes, customised, multidisciplinary workflows as well as being a reference point for funders and policy makers to support them towards their mission to fight cancer.
EC Cancer Mission
EU Missions are a new way to bring concrete solutions to some of our greatest challenges. They have ambitious goals to deliver tangible results by 2030. They will deliver impact by putting research and innovation into a leading role, combined with new forms of governance and collaboration, as well as by engaging citizens.
CanSERV and the EU Cancer Mission
CanSERV is fully dedicated to this aim: Our vision is aligned with the aim of Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan and EU Cancer mission. We will create strong interdisciplinary synergy between the ERICs and research initiatives that will provide customised services throughout the research and development cycle (from fundamental, translational, and clinical research) to tackle the entire disease pathway regarding a) prevention, b) early detection, c) diagnosis and treatment, and d) quality of life for cancer patients and survivors
For more information on the EU Cancer Mission click here.
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canSERV has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement number 101058620
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