Initial Information on the Upcoming THCS Partnership Call for Proposals

The European Partnership on Transforming Health and Care Systems (THCS)—a partnership aimed at supporting the transition to more sustainable, resilient, and high-quality health care systems focused on people’s needs— will launch a joint transnational call for proposals in mid-November 2026 titled “Transforming the Health and Care Workforce for Sustainable and Resilient Systems.” 

The aim of the call is to:

• support research and innovation focused on the practical implementation of results, which will accelerate the adoption, adaptation, testing, evaluation , and scaling up of approaches to transforming the healthcare and care workforce, based on available scientific knowledge and evidence. 
• Project proposals should go beyond individual, uncoordinated measures and support the implementation and expansion of comprehensive workforce solutions. These solutions are intended to strengthen the capacity of health and care systems to recruit, train, effectively engage, and retain qualified workers.  
• Project proposals should build on existing knowledge, initiatives, and examples of best practices; avoid duplicating activities that have already been carried out; and demonstrate how workforce transformation can contribute to the transition toward population-centered health care. At the same time, they should utilize implementation science approaches to identify barriers and facilitating factors for the implementation, sustainability, scalability, and transferability of the proposed solutions. 

The Ministry of Health / Agency for Health Research ČR will participate in this call!

National rules and conditions for Czech applicants are currently being drafted; these will be based on the Program to Support Applied Health Research for 2024–2030: Subprogram 3: European Partnerships in Health, and will be published on the websites AZV andČR by the time the call for proposals is announced. We recommend regularly checking the websites AZV andČR —the Czech Health Research Agency (azvcr.cz) —as well as the official call for proposals page here.

The MoHCR will support Czech applicants through the national budget allocation. The total amount for the call will be EUR 500 000. 

Important: The standard project duration for Czech principal investigators is a maximum of 3 years / 36 months. All projects will be funded under the Program to Support Applied Health Research for the period 2024–2030 and must therefore be completed no later than December 31, 2030, as the program itself ends on that date.   

Only transnational projects will be funded. The call will be a two-round call. 

Provisional timetable of the call:

More information about the call’s objectives, topics, general conditions, and consortium composition, as well as other specific conditions, is available on the official EP THCS website and in the supporting document HERE.