European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases (EJP RD) 2021 Call

The European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases (EJP RD) calls for international joint research projects for 2021 focusing on basic and preclinical research, this year EJP RD fosters research projects on Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) which are of major importance to better understand and improve healthcare implementation and everyday life of people living with a rare disease. 

The general aim of the call is to enable scientists in different countries to build an effective collaboration on a common interdisciplinary research project based on complementarities and sharing of expertise, with a clear future benefit for patients.

Call Title:

“Social sciences and Humanities Research to improve health care implementation and everyday life of people living with a rare disease”

Call Topics:

Social sciences, business and law 

-Social and Behavioural Sciences: economics, management, sociology, anthropology, demography, geography, psychology, neuropsychology, cognitive science, human rights, law, political sciences, communication, and social studies of science and technology.

-Education Science: educational research

-Governance: public and institutional administration, social and health economic and systems, policy, and social policy

Humanities and the Arts 

-Humanities: cultural studies, linguistics, philosophy, ethics, and history. 

Application Conditions:

  • The project consortium should include 3 partners from at least 3 different countries, which are participating countries.
  • Maximum 2 partners from the same country can take part in the project consortium.

Project Duration: Maximum 3 years

Call Calendar

In the call, which adopts a two-stage application process, it is predicted that the first stage applications will start to be received in December 2020. Since the published call is an early announcement, there may be differences in content and procedure in the main call. 

Please click here for project topics and detailed application conditions.