For the benefit of the cancer-research community, the JRC has put together a list of cancer projects funded by the EU during the last ten years. For the first time ever, projects from different funding programmes have been assembled into a single, harmonised dataset that can be freely downloaded from the JRC’s Knowledge Centre for Cancer.

The dataset - updated in January 2025 - now comprises over 4,000 projects with a combined EU contribution of over EUR 7 billion. The main funding programmes are Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe, EU4Health and Digital Europe, although projects from 21 unique EU funding programmes have been included. Each project is accompanied by rich meta data, including ID, acronym, title, objective, keywords, topic, start date and budget. Over 40% of the projects have also been tagged with a cancer type (based on the cancer-type list of the International Cancer Research Partnership).

In compiling and sharing this holistic dataset of EU cancer projects over the past decade, the JRC aims to raise awareness and promote collaboration amongst the cancer-research community. This dataset is part of JRC’s broader effort to foster scientific and technical coordination of EU cancer activities and to inform evidence-based decision-making in support of EU cancer policy goals.

Last update March 2024