CANDLE – National CAncer data Node DeveLopErs
Duration of the project: June 2025 - May 2028
The CANDLE project aims to reduce the burden of cancer in line with the Cancer Mission and Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan. Despite decades of dedicated research, cancer remains a significant health and societal challenge. Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan strives to improve the lives of over three million people by 2030 through enhanced prevention, early detection, diagnostics, therapeutics, and quality of life.
CANDLE addresses this by scaling up and improving existing national and international health data infrastructures, ensuring maximum alignment with national Electronic Health Data Space (EHDS) implementations across member states. The project also identifies and removes barriers that hinder the effective deployment of the digital platforms UNCAN.eu and ECPDC.
To support data users and developers of National Cancer Data Nodes (NCDNs), CANDLE provides a ‘ready-to-use’ Resource Kit designed in a process-oriented manner, covering the research journey, patient journey, and data lifecycle.
The consortium consists of 37 European partners and is coordinated by Stichting Health-RI. The BIH Center for Digital Health focuses on its input from the ECPDC point of view in WP2 “NCDN Concepts and Data User” and WP3 “Technical interoperability of NCDN’s with mator platforms in the EHDS framework”.
Overall, CANDLE serves as a vital catalyst for the much-needed data transformation in European cancer research, contributing significantly to the Cancer Mission clusters ‘Understanding’ and ‘Quality of Life’—ultimately supporting the goal of reducing the cancer burden across Europe.
