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Five years of Europe's Beating Cancer Plan with strengthened actions to fight cancer

Ahead of World Cancer Day on 4 February, the European Commission has unveiled an update of the European Code Against Cancer. The revised Code sets out practical ways to help prevent the disease and is the result of four years of work by over 60 European public health experts. The guidance is based on scientific […]

Interim evaluation of the EU4Health Programme 

Report on the interim evaluation of the EU4Health Programme 2021-2024

Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform mobilises over €15 billion to boost investments in Europe in its first year

Today, the Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (STEP) celebrates its first year in action for the development and manufacturing of critical technologies in Europe. Over the past year, STEP has pooled the investment firepower of 11 EU programmes, mobilising over €15 billion to support Europe's competitiveness in three strategic sectors: digital technologies and deep-tech innovation, […]

EU4Health programme 2021-2027 – a vision for a healthier European Union

The EU4Health programme was adopted as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic and to reinforce crisis preparedness in the EU. The pandemic highlighted the fragility of national health systems. The EU4Health programme will bring a contribution to the long-term health challenges by building stronger, more resilient and more accessible health systems. Health is an investment […]

Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee. Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan: Driving forces for the security of medical radioisotopes supply (own-initiative opinion)

First Important Project of Common European Interest in the health sector

The European Commission has approved, under EU State aid rules, the first Important Project of Common European Interest (‘IPCEI') to support research, innovation and the first industrial deployment of healthcare products, as well as innovative production processes of pharmaceuticals. This IPCEI will notably contribute to the European Health Union's objectives by delivering innovations addressing diseases […]

The European Health Union

The European Health Union: acting together for people's health

European Health Union: stronger and better prepared for the future

Today, the Commission adopted a Communication on the European Health Union, which highlights the strides made in EU health policy over the last four years, for the benefit of citizens in the EU and worldwide. The start of this mandate was marked by the biggest pandemic in a century, which caused human suffering on a […]