EDCTP3 (2025): new calls to fund biomedical research with African partners
- Despoina Mademtzoglou
- Jan 10
- 2 min read
By Despoina Mademtzoglou, Project Manager - GO
Global Health EDCTP3 funds Europe-Africa (aka North-South) collaborative projects that prevent, detect, and treat infectious diseases in sub-Saharan Africa.
Global Health EDCTP3 has released its 2025 working program, where the following calls for proposals are foreseen. For stage 1, applicants should submit a pre-proposal by March 2025. For stage 2, high-ranking consortia will receive an invitation to submit a full application by September 2025. For more insights on these open calls, you can attend the funder’s webinar (details to be announced here).
Call | Indicative budget | Expected contribution per project | Expected number of funded projects |
|---|---|---|---|
Global collaboration action for the development of vaccines for reducing the disease burden of Tuberculosis in sub-Saharan Africa Deadlines: 20 Mar 2025 (first stage), 02 Sep 2025 (second stage) | 45.9 million EUR | 15.3 million EUR | 3 |
Global collaboration action for research on existing Malaria therapeutics and clinical development of new antimalarial candidates Deadlines: 20 Mar 2025 (first stage), 02 Sep 2025 (second stage) | 30.9 million EUR | 10.3 million EUR | 3 |
Accelerating the development of prophylactic vaccines against Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)* in sub-Saharan Africa Deadlines: 20 Mar 2025 (first stage), 02 Sep 2025 (second stage) | 45.9 million EUR | 15.3 million EUR | 3 |
Global Health EDCTP3 and contributing partners funded Strategic Training Hubs for Fellowships in Public Health covering Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Modelling Deadlines: 20 Mar 2025 (first stage), 02 Sep 2025 (second stage) | 6.7 million EUR | 1.34 million EUR (to support 10 fellows) | 5 |
Global collaborative action tackling diarrheal diseases in the context of climate and health Deadlines: to be announced HORIZON-JU-GH-EDCTP3-2025-04-CH-01-two-stage | 30.6 million EUR | 5.1 million EUR | 6 |
Transformative Innovations in global health Deadlines: to be announced HORIZON-JU-GH-EDCTP3-2025-04-ACCESS-02-two-stage | 14.0 million EUR | 1.4 to 2.33 million EUR | 6-10 |
*NTDs in and out of scope can be found on page 65 here
The consortia should consist of ≥3 partners from 3 eligible countries, incl. ≥1 in a European Union Member State or Horizon Europe Associated Country (“North”) and ≥1 in a sub-Saharan African country that is member of the EDCTP Association (“South”) - country list on pages 49-50 here. If the coordinator is not in South Africa, project management is ensured by: a Coordinator in the “North” and a Project Scientific Lead in the “South”.
If you are interested in applying, contact us as early as possible at goeurope[at]pasteur.fr.
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