Why run?
Why run?
5 reasons to participate
Run to cure
In Europe, 35,000 children and young people between the ages of 0 and 23 are diagnosed with cancer every year. Little is known about the causes of these cancers and there are many different types. This makes each type of paediatric cancer a rare disease that struggles to attract sufficient scientific research.
As a result, survival rates have stagnated over the past 20 years and children continue to be treated with drugs that are sometimes more than 50 years old – while over the same period, innovation exploded for adults.
The treatments are not only old, they are also toxic and 2/3 of the children who recover, experience severe side effects (like secondary cancers caused by the treatment of the first cancer, amputation or blindness). .
To boost research in paediatric oncology and select the most promising projects in Europe, our KickCancer Foundation, Imagine for Margo (France), the Fondation Kriibskrank Kanner (Luxembourg), CRIS Cancer Foundation (Spain) and KiKA (the Netherlands) have joined forces and launched the FIGHT KIDS CANCER initiative. The funds you will raise for RUN TO KICK will be pooled together with those from the races organised in France, Luxembourg and Spain. They will be used to finance the best research projects in Europe.
Run to care
It isn't the sportiest marathon runners, but young patients and their families who take centre stage at RUN TO KICK, because they are our biggest stars on this day.
It's an opportunity for families affected by children’s cancer to get together and gather around them their friends and colleagues who didn’t know how to help them during this storm
Mobilising others to advance research is also a great form of group therapy for these families.
Come and experience this festive, positive, light and moving day. RUN TO KICK offers a powerful dose of hope and solidarity to families affected by childhood cancer and to everyone who wants to support them.
Run to be together
Running, walking, crawling, or being carried? It doesn’t matter!
At RUN TO KICK, it’s the one who raises the most money that gets to stand on the podium!
No need to be a great sportsman: RUN TO KICK brings together all ages and all physical conditions. What they have in common is that they all have a furious desire to kick children’s cancer far away!
This is the perfect opportunity to steal away the podium from your marathoner friend!
Families, friends, companies… Everyone can participate in RUN TO KICK!
Run to be fit
2 km, 5 km, 10 km… choose the challenge that fits you best!
Everybody is moving, but (almost) nobody is a real sportsman at RUN TO KICK. In any case, if you have not raced in 5 years or 6 months, you won’t risk arriving last.
In fact, this is the perfect opportunity to get back into sport with joy, pursuing a noble goal! RUN TO KICK has no time registration, so no one will know your real running time ;-)
On the other hand, it’s just like a real race: with a warm-up and stretching sessions, provision stands with healthy products and running t-shirts are offered!
Run to enjoy
Mark Sunday 27 September 2026 in your agenda! We will be expecting you in Brussels to experience RUN TO KICK together. We already know in advance that it will be a fantastic day you’ll always remember. We are fully committed to delivering a professionally organised event, creating the perfect atmosphere, offering an engaging sporting experience, and fostering a strong sense of community.
What we finance
What we finance thanks to you
In 2020, we started allocating 100% of the funds raised by our participants to research projects selected in the framework of the FIGHT KIDS CANCER call for European projects.
FIGHT KIDS CANCER is a joint initiative by KickCancer, Imagine for Margo (France), the Fondatioun Kriibskrank Kanner (Luxembourg), the CRIS Cancer Foundation (Spain) and KiKa (the Netherlands). Our aim is to accelerate the most innovative treatments thanks to European financing and collaboration of research on paediatric cancers.
Over 6 years, from 2020 to 2025, FIGHT KIDS CANCER led to the funding of 44 research projects and 2 Innovation Awards for a total amount of almost 44 million euros, out of which 8 million euros are funded by KickCancer.
In 2026, our five organisations are committed to invest 13 million euros. KickCancer plans to contribute 2,5 million euros.
Participate in RUN TO KICK 2026 by running, walking or donating to one of your friends who participates or by sponsoring us and shooting kids’ cancer forever away!