Research Projects

This database contains information on EU funded dementia research projects, undertaken since 2007. It is the product of a mapping exercise of European funding programmes for dementia research conducted by Alzheimer Europe in 2020. This database is not an exhaustive resource of information. It contains information about dementia research projects that are funded by European programmes including FP7, H2020, IMI, JPND, AAL and the third EU Health programme. The mapping exercise and database were expanded in 2025, to include projects funded under Horizon Europe (including IHI). For these projects, the database reports the maximum contribution from the European Commission rather than the total project budget, so funding figures may not be directly comparable across all entries.
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Targeting Circadian Clock Dysfunction in Alzheimer’s Disease

TClock4AD

Recent Nobel Prize-winning discoveries on circadian clock (CC) have laid the foundation for ground-breaking approaches to treat many diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease (AD). AD is a current public health priority. Amplifying the demographic burden of the rising numbers of patients is the low success rate of AD therapies. Given that CC genes...

Funding Programme
EU-Horizon Europe
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End Date
Total Funding
€ 3 811 636

Trafficking mechanisms and physiological factors mediating a direct gut microbiota-brain neuron interaction

MicrobiotaNeuroTalk

The gut-brain axis has emerged as a complex regulator of system-wide physiology, playing essential roles to maintain homeostasis, including contributions to brain development and activity, affecting host metabolism and behavior. The gut bacterial composition constantly fluctuates, allowing for the regular release of diverse microbe-derived...

Funding Programme
EU-Horizon Europe
Start Date
End Date
Total Funding
€ 1 875 000
European Countries Involved

Training Network on Automatic Processing of PAthological Speech

TAPAS

There are an increasing number of people across Europe with debilitating speech pathologies (e.g., due to stroke, Parkinson's, etc). These groups face communication problems that can lead to social exclusion. They are now being further marginalised by a new wave of speech technology that is increasingly woven into everyday life but which is not...

Funding Programme
EU-H2020
Start Date
End Date
Total Funding
€ 3 856 029
European Countries Involved

Twinning for excellence in biophysics of protein interactions and self-assembly

TWIN2PIPSA

TWIN2PIPSA will improve R&I capacities of FC.ID/ULisboa (Portugal) in the field of protein folding biophysics and conformational diseases by partnering in joint Twinning activities with three world-leading research and technological development performers: the University of Cambridge (UCAM), the University of Copenhagen (UCPH), and Tel Aviv...

Funding Programme
EU-Horizon Europe
Start Date
End Date
Total Funding
€ 1 228 957
European Countries Involved

Virtual and memory adaptable spaces creating stimuli for the senses in ageing people with dementia

SENSE-GARDEN

There are 47 million people living with dementia worldwide and expected to increase to 131 million by 2050. A person with dementia experiences loss of function, especially memory, eventually affecting verbal communication and ultimately creating disconnection from the close ones such as family and friends. The SENSE-GARDEN project will create rooms...

Funding Programme
AAL
Start Date
End Date
Total Funding
€ 2 100 000
European Countries Involved

VPH Dementia Research Enabled by IT

VPH-DARE@IT

The DementiA Research Enabled by IT project responds to the European Parliament's 2011 resolution for a European Initiative on Alzheimer's disease and other dementias, and the EU Year of the Brain 2014 Initiative. It delivers the first patient-specific predictive models for early differential diagnosis of dementias and their evolution. Its...

Funding Programme
EU-FP7
Start Date
End Date
Total Funding
€ 17 899 289
 
Acknowledgement
Alzheimer Europe's database on research projects was developed as part of the 2020 Work Plan which received funding under an operating grant from the European Union’s Health Programme (2014–2020).