European Project Directory

The Platform has identified recent European research projects that address end-of-life and palliative care issues.

In 2023, seven projects were winners of the Horizon Europe call (HORIZON-HLTH-2023-DISEASE-03-01) Novel approaches for palliative and end-of-life care for non-cancer patients: PALLIAKID (Spain)1, PsyPal (Netherlands), AI4HOPE (Finland), RAPHAEL (Netherlands), EPIC (Germany), In-Touch (Ireland), EU PAL-COPD (Belgium).

  1. The countries mentioned in brackets correspond to the project coordinating country. For more details, see the list of projects below.
32 projet(s)
Acronyme / Titre Instrument Coordinateur / Institution d'accueil
PAL-CYCLES | PALliative Care Yields Cancer welLbEing Support Horizon Europe Stichting Radboud universitair medisch centrum (Pays-Bas)
PAINLESS | Pain relief in palliative care of cancer using home-based neuromodulation and predictive biomarkers Horizon Europe Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (Espagne)
INSPIRE | INtegrated Short-term PallIative REhabilitation to improve quality of life and equitable care access in incurable cancer (INSPIRE): clinical and cost effectiveness of an integrated short-term palliative rehabilitation intervention, to improve function and quality of life in people affected by incurable cancer. Horizon Europe Hospices Civils de Lyon (France)
SERENITY | Towards Cancer Patient Empowerment for Optimal Use of Antithrombotic Therapy at the End of Life. Horizon Europe Academisch Ziekenhuis Leiden (Netherlands)
MyPATH | Developing and implementing innovative Patient-Centred Care Pathways for cancer patients. Horizon Europe Oslo Universitetssykehus HF (Norvège)
EU Navigate | Implementation and evaluation of a Navigation Intervention for People with Cancer in Old Age and their Family Caregivers: an international pragmatic randomized controlled trial Horizon Europe Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgique)
RELEVIUM | Improving quality of life of advanced pancreatic cancer patients through an AI-guided multimodal intervention, combining pain and cachexia management, nutrition, and physical activity. Horizon Europe Universitätsmedizin der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (Allemagne)
PALLIAKID | Comprehensive paediatric palliative care approach Horizon Europe Fundació Privada per a la Recerca i Docència Sant Joan de Déu (Spain)
RAPHAEL | Integrating a palliative care approach for patients with heart failure Horizon Europe Universitair Medisch Centrum Utrecht (Netherlands)
EPIC | Enhancing palliative care in ICU Horizon Europe Charite – Universitäts Medizin Berlin (Germany)
In-Touch | In-Touch: Implementation of a person-centered palliative care iNtervention To imprOve comfort, QUality of Life and social engagement of people with advanced dementia in Care Homes Horizon Europe University College Cork – National University of Ireland, Cork (UCC) (Irlande)
EU PAL-COPD | Evaluation of the ICLEAR-EU intervention to integrate palliative care in the treatment of people with advanced COPD and their family caregivers: An international stepped wedge cluster RCT in six European countries Horizon Europe Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgique)
PsyPal | Psilocybin Therapy for Psychological Distress in Palliative Care Patients Horizon Europe Academisch Ziekenhuis Groningen (Netherlands)
AI4HOPE | Artificial intelligence based health, optimism, purpose, and endurance in palliative care for dementia. Horizon Europe Turun Yliopisto (Finland)
MyPal | Fostering palliative care of adults and children with cancer through advanced patient reported outcome (PRO) systems. Horizon 2020 Ethniko Kentro Erevnas Kai Technologikis Anaptyxis (Grèce)
PD-Pal | Evaluating the clinical and cost-effectiveness of a combined person-centred intervention of Advance Care Planning (ACP) and care coordination for people with Parkinson’s disease and their family caregiver(s). Horizon 2020 Universita Degli Studi di Padova (Italie)
INADVANCE | Patient-centred pathways of early palliative care, supportive ecosystems and appraisal standard Horizon 2020 Universitat de Valencia (Spain)
DIAdic | Evaluation of Dyadic Psychoeducational Interventions for People with Advanced Cancer and their Informal Caregivers (DIAdIC): An international randomized controlled trial Horizon 2020 Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgique)
iLive | Making a global impact on the experience of dying, with people continuing to have a meaningful life until the end. Horizon 2020 Erasmus universitair medisch centrum rotterdam (Netherlands)
Palliative Sedation | The use of proportional palliative sedation for the relief of refractory symptoms. Horizon 2020 Stichting Radboud universitair medisch centrum (Pays-Bas)
ENDofLIFE | Globalizing Palliative Care? A Multi-sited Ethnographic Study of Practices, Policies and Discourses of Care at the End of Life. ERC starting grants Universiteit Leiden (Netherlands)
DEATHREVOL | The roots and evolution of the culture-of-death. A taphonomic research of the European Paleolithic record. ERC starting grants Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (Spain)
EOLinPLACE | Choice of where we die: a classification reform to discern diversity in individual end of life pathways. ERC starting grants Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal)
C-POS | Children's Palliative care Outcome Scale ERC consolidator grants King's College of London (Royaume Uni)
CONT-END | Attempts to Control the End of Life in People with Dementia: Two-level Approach to Examine Controversies. ERC consolidator grants Academisch Ziekenhuis Leiden (Netherlands)
MORTAL | Understanding mortality: Biosocial determinants across cohorts, time and place ERC consolidator grants University of Oxford (United Kingdom)
NursEduPal@Euro | NursEduPal@Euro Erasmus +
RESPACC | Research for Palliative Care Clinicians. Erasmus + Fundatia hospice casa sperantei (Roumanie)
NursEduPal@IMPACT | IMPACT, Innovative Methods in PAlliative Care Teaching - Connecting higher education and practice for collaborative learning in nursing leadership in palliative care. Erasmus +
SPES4Caregivers | Stand by Palliative and Elderly caregiverS Erasmus + Fondazione ANT Franco Pannuti ETS (Italy)
CODE-YAA@PC-EDU | COllaboratively DEveloped culturallY Appropriate and inclusive Assessment tool for Palliative Care EDUcation COST
HENKO NET | Innovation et technologies numériques pour des soins palliatifs sociaux et sanitaires à domicile Interreg Sudoe Fundación INTRAS (Spain)

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