Synergies

Joint Action on Personalized Cancer Medicine (JA PCM)

This is SPARC’s primary and mandatory synergy.

Key areas of alignment include:

• Developing complementary training approaches for healthcare professionals and patients
• Aligning policy recommendations related to equity, access pathways, and sustainability
• Sharing learnings on integration of genomics and AI into clinical practice
• Coordinating communication activities and avoiding duplication of efforts
• Exchanging insights from pilot studies and real-world implementation

The synergy ensures coherence between EU4Health initiatives and contributes to more unified European action in personalised oncology.

Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan

SPARC supports goals related to early detection, diagnostic capacity, treatment innovation, and cross-border cooperation.

By improving access to high-quality diagnostics and promoting equitable care pathways, SPARC contributes to several flagship initiatives under the Plan.

EU4Health Programme

SPARC strengthens the programme’s pillars of resilience, innovation, health system transformation, and collaboration.

The project directly supports:

• Workforce skills development
• Improved cancer diagnostic capacity
• Digital health infrastructure improvements
• Patient empowerment

EU Cancer Mission

SPARC complements the Mission’s objectives by generating evidence, improving data interoperability, and promoting translational adoption of precision oncology technologies.

European Health Data Space (EHDS)

SPARC contributes through:

• Development of interoperable cancer data models
• Testing governance frameworks for secure data access
• Advancing harmonisation practices that can support wider EHDS use cases