CANDLE is a three-year EU-funded project (2025 – 2028) supporting Member States and Associated Countries in setting up National Cancer Data Nodes. These NCDNs will boost the reuse of cancer data for research, innovation and policy making, in order to improve diagnostics and treatment for cancer patients, as well as prevention and early detection for citizens not yet affected by the disease. Kickstarted by the implementation of the European Health Data Space, and building on national collaborative networks, NCDNs will provide researchers improved and cross border access to larger data sets of better quality.
CANDLE works in the context of two high level political initiatives that guide the European perspective on cancer research and health data:
Jointly with UNCAN-Connect, we will put a special spotlight on cancer data holders and users in industry! Our joint webinar 13 October will engage industry stakeholders that are using and producing cancer data, in the context of emerging EU data infrastructures: UNCAN.eu, National Cancer Data Nodes, European Health Data Space. The webinar will – explore [...]
The CANDLE consortium actively contributed to the 3rd TEHDAS2 public consultation on six guidelines for Health Data Access Bodies and on diverse aspects of data use. In its reply, CANDLE broadly welcomed the draft guidelines as a solid and useful foundation and provided suggestions on how to make them more user-oriented and better adapted to real-world research workflows. Priorities included the need for [...]
On 7 July 2026, CANDLE joined the “Interoperability Meets Cancer” webinar, bringing together European projects and 20 experts working across cancer, digital health and the European Health Data Space (EHDS). The session was organised by CANDLE consortium partner ISCTE. The discussion explored a central challenge for Europe’s evolving health data ecosystem: how can initiatives working [...]
