📅 Implementation: 13 Jun 2025 – 12 Dec 2027 (30 months)
💶 Total Budget: €2,537,439.28 | ERDF Contribution: €1,974,814.65
🤝 Partners: 2 institutions
🎯 Type: Standard project | Healthcare | RS04.5
Summary
OncoSafe strengthens cross-border cooperation in cancer care between Timiș (Romania) and Csongrád-Csanád (Hungary) by improving the quality, safety, and accessibility of radiotherapy services.
The project focuses on establishing modern radiotherapy facilities, introducing state-of-the-art equipment, and developing joint safety and quality assurance protocols that raise treatment standards across both regions.
In Timișoara, the Emergency Municipal Clinical Hospital replaces its outdated linear accelerator with a new-generation radiotherapy system, ensuring safer and more precise treatments that meet current European standards.
In Szeged, the University of Szeged installs advanced dosimetry and all its accessories, a new patient monitoring system, and modern quality control software, ensuring high-precision treatment delivery.
To sustain long-term excellence, both partners jointly develop clinical protocols and conduct professional workshops on cutting-edge radiotherapy techniques and quality control. These sessions bring together doctors, medical physicists, and technicians from both sides of the border, creating a strong professional community dedicated to safe, effective, and personalised cancer care.
Through innovation, cooperation, and shared expertise, OncoSafe ensures that more patients can access faster, safer, and higher-quality treatment close to home.
Project Aim
To improve the quality and safety of radiotherapy for cancer patients in the Csongrád-Csanád–Timiș cross-border area through modern equipment, shared expertise, and harmonised treatment standards.
Objectives
✅ Improve access to advanced radiotherapy and ensure high treatment quality
✅ Reduce side effects and improve recovery and survival outcomes for patients
✅ Provide continuous professional training and promote joint knowledge exchange
✅ Implement cross-border clinical protocols and safety standards
✅ Strengthen cooperation between oncology institutions in Romania and Hungary
Key Activities & Results
🔹 Modern Radiotherapy Equipment – Timișoara: Installation of a new linear accelerator at the Emergency Municipal Clinical Hospital, replacing obsolete equipment and improving treatment precision and patient safety.
🔹 Upgraded Dosimetry and Monitoring Systems – Szeged: Acquisition of complex dosimetry tools, a patient control monitoring system, and dedicated software for imaging and quality control at the University of Szeged’s Department of Oncotherapy.
🔹 Professional Training & Workshops:
Three joint training sessions held in Szeged on topics such as Quality Control in Radiation Oncology and Commissioning of a Linear Accelerator, each with at least 12 participants from both partner institutions.
🔹 Joint Protocols & Clinical Guidelines:
Co-development of standardised radiotherapy protocols, including one focused on regular safety measurements using dosimetry analysis. These become part of the official medical procedures at both institutions.
🔹 Cross-Border Knowledge Exchange:
Workshops and collaborative sessions where medical experts share best practices in radiotherapy planning, quality assurance, and patient care.
Partnership
Lead Partner: Emergency Municipal Clinical Hospital of Timișoara (RO)
Project Partner: University of Szeged (HU)
OncoSafe elevates cancer care standards across the Romania–Hungary border region. By combining cutting-edge technology, joint clinical protocols, and continuous professional training, the project ensures that radiotherapy is safer, more precise, and more accessible for all patients.
For more details, consult the project fact sheet: EN
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