ANNOUNCEMENT: 2025-2026 CALL FOR PROPOSALS IS A SARCOMA EXCLUSIVE CALL

FIGHT KIDS CANCER is thrilled to announce that its 2025-2026 call for proposals is a sarcoma exclusive call.

Sarcomas are among the leading causes of cancer-related death in children—typically ranking second or third. Despite this burden, treatments for most sarcomas have seen little to no significant improvement over the past 40 years. To address these urgent unmet needs, the FIGHT KIDS CANCER Programme Committee has dedicated the 2025–2026 Call exclusively to paediatric bone or soft tissue sarcomas.

The 2026-2027 Call will again be open to all types of paediatric cancers.

Following the success of last year’s call, this sarcoma exclusive call will continue to give more flexibility to the applying teams. Thus, the possible amount available and duration per grant application will be the following:

For clinical trials:

 Up to 5 years
Up to 5 million euros

For a clinical trial preparation grants:

Up to 2 years
Up to 0.25 million euros

For translation research projects:

Up to 4 years
Up to 2 million euros

Please note the 2025 call timeline:

Opening of the call	01/09/2025
Deadline submission EoI	17/10/2025 12h00 CEST
Opening FP phase	Prompt notification after 08/01/2026
Deadline FP submission	06/03/2026 12h00 CET
Rebuttal phase	28/04/2026-05/05/2026

FIGHT KIDS CANCER funders for this call are :
KiKa in the Netherlands
Imagine for Margo in France
KickCancer in Belgium
Fondatioun Kriibskrank Kanner in Luxembourg
Cris Cancer foundation in Spain and the United Kingdom

HOW TO SUBMIT AN EOI

Please apply into the following platform: Fight Kids Cancer 2025-2026 Call for proposals – ESF – Science Connect

Please find the 2026 call guidelines hereafter: FKC-Guide-for-applicants_call 2026

CONTACT

FIGHT KIDS CANCER Secretariat at ESF: fightkidscancer@esf.org

Contact

Programme support and management is provided by the European Science Foundation, which is the intermediary with the funding organisations.

For further information about this announcement of opportunity please contact Fight Kids Cancer at ESF: fightkidscancer@esf.org