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National CAncer data Node DeveLopErs 25 November 2025

CANDLE Persona Webinar

We invite all interested stakeholders to join CANDLE’s National Cancer Data Nodes Persona Webinar! This session is taking place on November 26th, 14:00 – 15:30 CET. In this workshop, attendees will build personas with us, mapped to the functions of the National Cancer Data Nodes and the European Health Data Space context. Personas represent user groups of a service and help make their needs more tangible, and we will apply this concept to help Member States build National Cancer Data Nodes that meet their users’ needs. Read the agenda and register

CANDLE Kick-off Meeting

The CANDLE Kick-off Meeting, held from June 16th to 17th in Amsterdam, was a success! During the first day of meetings we explored the what and how of building National Cancer Data Nodes: from coordination (WP1 | Robin Navest), users and conceptualization (WP2 | Tomi P. Mäkelä), to technical connection (WP3 | Alfonso Valencia), maturation models (WP4 | Daniel Barrowdale), as well as communication, stakeholder connections, and policy (WP5 | Carola Schulz, Griselda Marku, Sudeep Das, Richard Price). The second day of sessions dived deeper into multiple topics of interest: the EU Mission on Cancer (Angelo Solimini | European Commission) and DG CNCT’s perspective on the CANDLE project (Aleksandra Wesolowska | European Commission), as well as our partner projects UNCAN-CONNECT (Kadi-Liis Veiman | Estonian Cancer Network), EU-CIP: Cancer Information Portal (Carsten Canitz | Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin), and ECHoS | Establishing of Cancer Mission Hubs: Networks and Synergies (Hugo Soares | AICIB), their planned activities, and alignment with CANDLE.

Work Package Series We have launched the first educational series of the project, the CANDLE Project Work Package series. This is a collection of weekly posts highlighting the most critical aspects of each CANDLE WP. Check Out the WP2 Installment Check Out the WP3 Installment

Joint CANDLE and EU-CiP Stakeholder Engagement Group In conjunction with our synergy project EU-CiP, we launched a registration form allowing stakeholders to engage with CANDLE, EU-CiP, or both projects. This joint initiative aims to value the time and energy of our stakeholders, by offering a single entry point for stakeholder engagement. REGISTER HERE

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EVENTS

CANDLE at ABRE2025 The CANDLE project was represented during the ABRE2025 Symposium! Lifang Liu of Health-RI, the coordinator of our project, participated in an alignment session with the broader biomedical research community and our synergy projects. The session, titled Cancer Scientific Advances, Coordination and Policy on July 22nd, was moderated by Ian Gauci Borda of Xjenza Malta. Read More

cBioPortal Symposium On Tuesday, November 11, 2025 (09:00 – 17:00), the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI) hosted a one-day symposium titled “cBioPortal – Making cancer data accessible for all”. The event was co-organized with Health-RI and the CANDLE project. Read the Symposium Outcomes

CANDLE at the EUNetCCC 2025 Annual Meeting The CANDLE team spent two days at the EUnetCCCAnnual Meeting in Paris, engaging deeply with cancer data stakeholders from across Europe. The dedicated CANDLE booth, coordinated by Carola Schulz of empirica, attracted visitors who identified fragmented infrastructure and legal uncertainty as the biggest blockers to cancer data sharing in their countries. In the panel discussion "Unlocking Cancer Data", Tomi P. Mäkelä presented CANDLE's work to support National Cancer Data Nodes, alongside other panellists. He highlighted their role in creating a connected cancer data infrastructure. Read more about the event

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FEATURES

CANDLE Featured in the Cancer Mission Newsletter! The latest EU #CancerMission Implementation Newsletter is out - and we're in it! CANDLE is highlighted in the newsletter as one of the initiatives helping Europe unlock the power of cancer data, alongside our partner projects EU-CiP: The EU Cancer Information Portal Project and UNCAN-Connect. Read the Full Newsletter

CANDLE Featured in Malta Independent Maltese organisations are participating in European research and are increasingly shaping projects directly relevant to national health priorities. Ian Gauci Borda of Xjenza Malta highlighted CANDLE as one of the Cancer Mission projects where Malta is participating.  Read the News Item

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