Dear Franco :

Please see initial comments by email from the review team :

I have pasted them below :

Dear Kremlin,

To receive funds

WHO needs to be a consortium partner. At present, WHO is not included as a partner in the table on the first page of Part B. Also, does not have any specific role within WPs (WP lead, owner of a task or deliverable)
WHO’s role must also be clearly defined as essential throughout the proposal. One clear example is when WHO leads a work package. If WHO is not leading a WP, there still needs to be a clear description of WHO’s role, why it is critical to the project, and which tasks and deliverables WHO would own as a consortium partner.

Section 3.1 describes all work packages, their lead partners, and contributing consortium partners, but WHO is not listed there either (unless I have missed something).

In response to your question on whether WHO must lead a WP to be a partner: no, this is not mandatory (however this is the case in vast majority of our submissions), but WHO must have an essential role clearly described in the proposal.

If you initiate clearance in CEM now, I would need to make the same comments in the system and wait for a revised version before our team can clear it. You can therefore decide whether to proceed with clearance at this stage or wait for revisions.

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My response about WHO role was this :

WHO’s role will be when the interventions are being developed, we will identify a set of interventions first, based on literature and latest evidence. WHO will be a key partner in this process.

Then we will invite our NCD risk factor Member State focal points from these countries for a consultation. Then based on their experience, local factors, context, they will help us to prioritize and develop the final set of interventions which are more applicable to countries.

WHO will facilitate the process of development of final set of interventions.

During the implementation phase, since we are going to have a full-time consultant, we will collect regular updates about implementation of interventions ,including barriers faced and level of interventions.

This will help the project and also WHO to learn despite what we develop as evidence based and feasible package of interventions , what the real life barriers we face during implementation.

Then we will support dissemination at the end, with all EU countries, based on the findings of the project.

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Can you please use this information and send us a revised proposal ? Please include WHO as a partner to lead a task or tasks , not a full WP leader due to limited budget. Please specify the role of WHO to demonstrate the added value and write it clearly in the proposal. I think we need only few sentences.

When you send the next version, I will initiate the official clearance process using the relevant memo process. I have a slighter more positive feeling than last week , if we are able to get the paperwork completed on time.

Are you able to send this update proposal on Wednesday?

Best wishes

Kremlin

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From: Sassi, Franco <f.sassi@imperial.ac.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, April 7, 2026 4:15:01 PM
To: WILLIAMS, Julianne <williamsj@who.int>; TOKAREVA, Alena <tokarevaa@who.int>
Cc: WICKRAMASINGHE, Kremlin <wickramasinghek@who.int>; INAGAKI, Yoko <yoko.inagaki@who.int>; zhealth-mgmt <zhealth-mgmt@imperial.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: [EXT] RE: Time Sensitive: EU Proposal on Behavioural intervention for NCD prevention in young people

Dear Julianne,

As promised, please, find attached a current version of the proposal (not 100% complete and polished at this stage, of course, but close). I am also attaching a couple of budget tables that will give you and Pierre an overall picture of budget allocations (again, subject to refinement before submission) and details of the WHO budget.

Please, let me know if you need anything else at this stage.

Franco

From: WILLIAMS, Julianne <williamsj@who.int>
Sent: 07 April 2026 11:54
To: Sassi, Franco <f.sassi@imperial.ac.uk>; TOKAREVA, Alena <tokarevaa@who.int>
Cc: WICKRAMASINGHE, Kremlin <wickramasinghek@who.int>; INAGAKI, Yoko <yoko.inagaki@who.int>; zhealth-mgmt <zhealth-mgmt@imperial.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: [EXT] RE: Time Sensitive: EU Proposal on Behavioural intervention for NCD prevention in young people

Dear Franco

Thank you. This sounds good!

If you can send us the budget and proposal this afternoon we will send to Pierre and his team.

We will check the FENSA materials now.

Thanks

Julianne

From: Sassi, Franco <f.sassi@imperial.ac.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, April 7, 2026 11:22:31 AM
To: WILLIAMS, Julianne <williamsj@who.int>
Cc: WICKRAMASINGHE, Kremlin <wickramasinghek@who.int>; INAGAKI, Yoko <yoko.inagaki@who.int>; TOKAREVA, Alena <tokarevaa@who.int>; zhealth-mgmt <zhealth-mgmt@imperial.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: [EXT] RE: Time Sensitive: EU Proposal on Behavioural intervention for NCD prevention in young people

Dear Julianne and Kremlin,

I hope you had a good break. We have placed in the SharePoint folder you have created the completed FENSA spreadsheet and the signed disclosure forms we have been able to collect so far. A few are still missing, because the holiday break has slowed down responses.

As for the budget, we have calculated an average monthly rate for WHO of €9556, corresponding to the mix we have agreed between P3 time, consultant time, and a small share of administrative support. Considering the activities we have agreed (involvement and consultation of national focal points as part of the co-design of interventions, and as part of the dissemination and sustainability activities; and co-production of policy briefs with project partners), we have calculated the following:

• 17 Person Months of effort (1 under WP1, 4 in WPs 4 and 5, 4 in WP8 and 8 in WP9) corresponding to 162K€

• 7.500€ for travel cost

• a total budget of 212K€.

Please, let me know if the FENSA materials and the budget proposal look OK at this stage. We are preparing a version of the proposal that we will share with you early in the afternoon today. Please, let meknow if you can pass on these documents to Pierre or if you would like me to do that.

Best,

Franco

From: WILLIAMS, Julianne <williamsj@who.int>
Sent: 31 March 2026 12:20
To: Sassi, Franco <f.sassi@imperial.ac.uk>
Cc: WICKRAMASINGHE, Kremlin <wickramasinghek@who.int>; INAGAKI, Yoko <yoko.inagaki@who.int>; TOKAREVA, Alena <tokarevaa@who.int>
Subject: FW: [EXT] RE: Time Sensitive: EU Proposal on Behavioural intervention for NCD prevention in young people

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Dear Franco,

Please find enclosed the tobacco and arms disclosure statement which needs to be signed and then uploaded here Horizon 2026 Imperial

As discussed with Kremlin I’ve put the FENSA assessment in this folder—if you can ask people to complete it. Partners - FENSA assessment.xlsx

Unfortunately on our internal system I could not find additional guidance for that spreadsheet, and I wanted to send this without delay. I’ll keep looking for that and for the staff costs requested.

Thanks

Julianne

Dr Julianne Williams

Technical Officer, Noncommunicable Diseases

Prevention and Health Promotion (PHP)

(formerly Special Initiative on NCDs and Innovation – SNI)