SEK 25 million for research projects on primary and community care in Europe

Forte coordinates Sweden’s participation in the THCS partnership. A total of 29 projects have now been awarded funding in the partnership’s third call, Enhancing primary and community care. Of these, nine projects with Swedish participation will receive SEK 25.3 million.

– The research aims to strengthen primary and community care and provide tools to support decision-making to improve the healthcare sector, Senior Research Officer and THCS coordinator at Forte.

Granted applications

• Thomas Tängden, Uppsala University
  AT-HOME study: A two-step approach for outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy with vancomycin: model-based dosing and non-invasive sampling vs. traditional therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM)
  
• Ainhoa Goienetxea, University of Skövde
  Streamlining Care for Musculoskeletal Disorders Through Lean Healthcare
  
• Mayssa Rekhis, Göteborg University
  CLARITY - Co-designing a Health LiterAcy Tool for MigRants to Empower Primary Care and CommunITY Support Networks
  
• Tom Ziemke, Linköping University
  AI that Cares for Aging at Home
  
• Jonatan Salzer, Umeå University
  Scaling Health Innovations for Future Transformative Digital Self-Management in European Primary Care
  
• Carl Savage, Karolinska Institutet
  European Co-care Learning Ecosystems
  
• Jenny Drott, Linköping University
  PRIME-OncoTransition for Breast Cancer : A smooth hospital-community transition for people aged 65+ undergoing Post-tReatment preventIve MEdication.
  
• Lars Sandman, Linköping university
  Inflammatory Bowel Disease Comprehensive and Accessible Remote Ecosystem
  
• Cecilia Aulin, Karolinska Institutet
  Community-Driven, Accessible, and Resilient Ecosystem for Osteoarthritis Care
  

– Interest was high and we received many excellent applications, not least from Sweden. Thanks to so-called top-up funding from the European Commission, we can now award grants to more Swedish projects than originally planned. From a Swedish perspective, this call has been the most successful within the partnership so far, says Staffan Arvidsson.

See the list of granted applications and funded amounts on the call’s website.

New upcoming call

The partnership will open its fourth call on 21 November. Its aim is to find research and innovation projects that contribute to ensuring equitable access to and utilisation of health and care services.

Read more about the call Healthcare of the future 2026 (THCS)