International Cooperation
JPND EU Joint Programme
Neurodegenerative Disease Research
Presentation
In December 2008 the European Competitiveness Council acknowledged the need
to launch a joint programming pilot initiative aimed at tackling
neurodegenerative diseases in the context of major societal challenges that
Europe is facing, including challenges of an ageing population. The JPND – EU Joint Programme - Neurodegenerative
Disease Research initiative emerged as a response to that challenge.
The following countries are members of the JPND: Albania; Australia; Austria;
Belgium; Bulgaria; Canada; Croatia; Czech Republic; Denmark; Finland; France;
Germany; Greece; Hungary; Ireland; Israel; Italy; Luxembourg; Norway;
Netherlands; Poland; Portugal; Romania; Slovakia; Slovenia; Spain; Sweden;
Switzerland; Turkey; United Kingdom.
On this page you can consult information about:
Highlights:
JPND call for expert Working Groups on “Concepts for Health and Social
Care Research for Neurodegenerative Diseases”
Proposals for expert Working Groups on “Concepts for health and social care
research for neurodegenerative diseases” must be submitted no later than
12:00h C.E.T on December 13, 2022.
Although FCT does not participate in this call as a funding organisation,
the Working Group may include experts from any country worldwide under
invitation, including Portugal.
For more information about this call, please check the respective page on the JPND website.
JPND activities
JPND activities, namely calls for research proposals, build on its Strategic
Research and Innovation Agenda, whose first version was launched in 2012. The
newest version of JPND's
Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda was published on 23 April
2019, the outlined priorities being: the origins and progression of
neurodegenerative diseases; disease mechanisms and models; diagnosis,
prognosis and disease definitions; developing therapies, preventive
strategies and interventions; and health and social care. This agenda
comprises a range of activities aimed at enabling those priorities in an
enlarged and comprehensive fashion, while aligning participating countries'
scientific and medical skills and social approaches, in order to avoid
duplication of efforts.
This initiative has been supported by the European Commission through funding
of coordination and support actions and ERA-NETs under the auspices of
various framework-programmes for science and innovation over the years.
Currently support is provided by H2020 to projects JPco-fuND (2014-2019),
JPsustaiND (2015-2019) and JPcofuND 2
(2019-2023).
Results and funding granted
The following graphs present the results of the JPND Joint Transnational
Calls launched between 2011 and 2015.
You can consult the funding granted by FCT by year of the call and by
project, as well as more information about each funded project, by clicking
on the links below.
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Topic:
European research projects on neurodegenerative diseases: risk
and protective factors, longitudinal cohort approaches and advanced
experimental models
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Title of the project:
ESMI: European Spinocerebellar Ataxia Type 3/Machado-Joseph
Disease Initiative
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Coordinator: Thomas Klockgether, German Center for
Neurodegenerative Diseases (Bonn, Germany)
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Portuguese researcher: Manuela Lima, University of the Azores
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Financing granted by FCT: 175.000,00€ (one hundred and
seventy-five thousand euros)
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Portuguese researcher: Luís Pereira de Almeida, Centre for
Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra
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Financing granted by FCT: 175.000,00€ (one hundred and
seventy-five thousand euros)
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Title of the project:
MADGIC: Generation of Improved Cellular and Animal Models for
Identification of Disease Phenotype and New Therapeutic Targets of
Alzheimer’s Disease
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Coordinator: Jari Koistinaho, University of Eastern
Finland (Finland)
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Portuguese researcher: Dora Brites, University of
Lisbon
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Financing granted by FCT: 150.000,00€ (one hundred and fifty
thousand euros)
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Title of the project:
ModelPolyQ: Advanced models of polyglutamine disorders (HD, SCA3
and SCA7)
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Coordinator: Luís Pereira de Almeida, Centre for
Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra
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Financing granted by FCT: 275.000,00€ (two hundred and
seventy-five thousand euros)
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Title of the project:
NAB3: Development of a Novel Multicellular In Vitro Model of
Alzheimer’s disease-like Blood-Brain Barrier
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Coordinator: Francesca Re, University of
Milano-Bicocca (Italy)
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Portuguese researcher: Cláudia Almeida, Nova
University Lisbon
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Financing granted by FCT: €150,000.00 (one hundred and fifty
thousand euros)
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Topic:
European research projects for pilot studies on preventive
strategies related to Neurodegenerative Diseases
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Title of the project:
ONWebDUALS: ONTology-based Web Database for Understanding
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
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Coordinator: Mamede de Carvalho, Instituto de
Medicina Molecular, University of Lisbon
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Financing granted by FCT: €140,000.00 (one hundred and forty
thousand euros)
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Topic:
European research projects for cross-disease analysis of
pathways related to neurodegenerative diseases
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Title of the project:
SynSpread: Role and mechanism of alpha-synuclein and ataxin-3
spreading in Parkinson and Machado-Joseph diseases
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Coordinator: Luís Pereira de Almeida, Centre for
Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra
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Funding granted by FCT: €150,000.00 (one hundred and fifty
thousand euros)
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Title of the project:
Fly-SMALS: Common RNA-dependent pathways for motor-neuron
degeneration in SMA and ALS
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Coordinator: Jörg B. Schulz, University Medical
Center, RWTH Aachen (Germany)
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Portuguese researcher: Margarida Gama Carvalho,
Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon
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Funding granted by FCT: €138,847.00 (one hundred and
thirty-eight thousand, eight hundred and forty-seven euros)
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Topic:
European research projects for the identification of genetic,
epigenetic and environmental risk and protective factors for
Neurodegenerative Diseases
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Title of the project:
COURAGE-PD: Comprehensive Unbiased Risk factor Assessment for
Genetics and Environment in Parkinson‘s Disease
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Coordinator: Thomas Gasser, University of Tübingen
(Germany)
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Portuguese researcher: Joaquim Ferreira, Instituto
de Medicina Molecular, University of Lisbon
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Financing granted by the FCT: €130,000.00 (one hundred and
thirty thousand euros)
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Topic:
European research projects for the evaluation of health care
policies, strategies and interventions for Neurodegenerative
Diseases
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Title of the project: ACTIFCare: Access
to Timely Formal Care
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Coordinator: Frans Verhey, Maastricht University
(Netherlands)
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Portuguese researcher: Manuel Gonçalves-Pereira,
Nova University Lisbon
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Financing granted by FCT: €85,000.00 (eighty-five thousand
euros)
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Title of the project:CLaSP: Care for
Late Stage Parkinsonism
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Coordinator: Anette Schrag, University College
London (United Kingdom)
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Portuguese researcher: Joaquim Ferreira, Instituto
de Medicina Molecular, University of Lisbon
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Financing granted by FCT: €110,000.00 (one hundred and ten
thousand euros)
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Title of the project:
RHAPSODY: Research to Assess Policies and Strategies for Dementia
in the Young
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Coordinator: Alexander Kurz, Technical University
Munich (Germany)
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Portuguese researcher: Alexandre Mendonça,
University of Lisbon
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Financing granted by the FCT: €125,000.00 (one hundred and
twenty-five thousand euros)
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Topic:
Pilot JPND Joint Transnational Call for optimisation of
biomarkers and harmonisation of their use
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Title of the project:
BIOMARKAPD: Biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s
disease
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Coordinator: Bengt Winblad, Karolinska Institutet
Alzheimer Disease Research Center (Sweden)
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Portuguese researchers: Alexandre Mendonça,
Instituto de Medicina Molecular, University of Lisbon, Catarina
Resende Oliveira, Centre for Neuroscience and Cell Biology,
University of Coimbra, and Odete da Cruz e Silva, University of
Aveiro
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Funding granted by the FCT: €145,000.00 (one hundred and
forty-five thousand euros)
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Title of the project:
DEMTEST: Biomarker based diagnosis of rapid progressive dementias
– optimisation of diagnostic protocols
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Coordinator: Inga Zerr, University Medical Center
Göttingen, National Reference Center for TSE (Germany)
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Portuguese researcher: Catarina Resende Oliveira,
Centre for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra
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Financing granted by the FCT: €35,000.00 (thirty-five thousand
euros)
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Title of the project:
SOPHIA: Sampling and biomarker OPtimization and Harmonization In
ALS and other motor neuron diseases
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Coordinator: Leonard H. van den Berg; University
Medical Center Utrecht (Netherlands)
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Portuguese researchers: Mamede de Carvalho,
Instituto de Medicina Molecular, University of Lisbon, and Júlia
Costa, ITQB/NOVA
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Financing granted by FCT: €120,000.00 (one hundred and twenty
thousand euros)
Contacts
Marta Abrantes
marta.abrantes@fct.pt
T. (+351) 21 391 15 96
Alexandre Maurício
alexandre.mauricio@fct.pt
T. (+351) 21 391 76 48
This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research
and innovation programme under grant agreements 643417, 681043 and 825664.