EU CAN KIDS
European Alliance for a Childhood without Cancer
EU CAN KIDS (formerly KiTZ-Máxima Twinning Program) is a unique strategic alliance of three leading European pediatric cancer centers: the Hopp Children's Cancer Center (KiTZ) in Heidelberg, the Princess Máxima Center in Utrecht, the largest pediatric oncology center in Europe, and the French center of excellence Institut Curie in Paris.
Joint research and infrastructure projects are currently being funded, as well as clinical studies, cancer registries and training formats. As a result, the program accelerates European and global access to molecular tumor analyses and multidisciplinary studies and opens up new, tailored treatment options for patients across borders.
In the coming years, further European pediatric oncology centers will gradually be included in the collaboration in order to lay the foundations for sustainable European cooperation for a childhood without cancer. To this end, the three centers of excellence are joining forces in order to jointly advance childhood cancer research faster and more efficiently.

- Website of the Prinses Máxima Centrums
https://www.prinsesmaximacentrum.nl/en
- Website of the Institut Curie
https://institut-curie.org/
- Press release on EU CAN KIDS
https://www.kitz-heidelberg.de/en/the-kitz/kitz-newsroom/kitz-news/detail/european-alliance-to-fight-cancer-in-children-and-adolescents
- Press release on the one year anniversary
https://www.kitz-heidelberg.de/newsroom/detail/gemeinsam-besser-ein-jahr-zusammenarbeit-mit-fuehrenden-deutschen-forschungszentren
- Maximum power for the fight against cancer (BILD online, 30. November 2024 - in German)
- Queen Máxima supports the foundation of a European alliance for pediatric oncology research (HeadTopics, 28. November 2024 - in German)
- Alliance for pediatric oncology extended (Ärzteblatt, 3. Dezember 2024 - in German)
- European alliance to fight cancer in children and adolescents: French Institut Curie is new partner in “EU CAN KIDS” (Kooperation international, 2. Dezember 2024 - in German)
- Foundation of a partner institute for European pediatric oncology (Healthcare in Europe, 29. Juni 2021 - in German)
- Hope for children with cancer: International cooperation (Zeit, 5. Juli 2021 - in German)
- Hope for children with cancer: International cooperation (Süddeutsche Zeitung, 5. Juli 2021 - in German)
- Hope for children with cancer: International cooperation (Welt, 5. Juli 2021 - in German)
- Hopp Children's Cancer Center Heidelberg (KiTZ) and Prinses Máxima Centrum in Utrecht sign cooperation agreement in Berlin (Mannheimer Morgen, 5. Juli 2021 - in German)
- Royal blessing for the fight against childhood cancer - Video (Bild, 6. Juli 2021 - in German)
- Royal blessing for the fight against childhood cancer (Bild, 6. Juli 2021 - in German)
- Pediatric oncology: Germany and the Netherlands want to work more closely together (Ärzteblatt, 8. Juli 2021 - in German)
- New hope for children with cancer (Biermann Medizin, 22. Juli 2021 - in German)
- Healing rates hardly improved (inpact, Oktober 2021 - in German)
- Hopp Children's Cancer Center Heidelberg (KiTZ) (Metropolitan Journal, 13. Oktober 2021 - in German)
- Fight against childhood cancer at the centers Máxima and KiTZ (Deutsch-Niederländische Handelskammer, 22. September 2022 - in German)