What is Horizon Europe Programme?
Horizon Europe is the EU’s key funding programme for research and innovation with a budget of EUR 95.5 billion for the period from 2021-2027. This includes EUR 5.4 billion from the Next Generation EU instrument, particularly to support the green and digital recovery from the COVID crisis. The budget is divided amongst four pillars and 15 components to create a programme that will support all the areas of research and innovation.
The programme facilitates collaboration and strengthens the impact of research and innovation in developing, supporting and implementing EU policies while tackling global challenges. It supports creating and better dispersing of excellent knowledge and technologies.
It creates jobs, fully engages the EU’s talent pool, boosts economic growth, promotes industrial competitiveness and optimises investment impact within a strengthened European Research Area. Legal entities from the EU and associated countries can participate.
We invite you to watch the film about Horizon Europe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8BQNnX6_kY
What are European Partnerships?
Their activities are focused on key areas for Europe’s development, including sustainability, digitalization, industry, climate, energy, mobility, construction, lithium-ion batteries, photonics, food and health.
European Partnerships bring the European Commission and private and/or public partners together to address some of Europe’s most pressing challenges through concerted research and innovation initiatives. They are a key implementation tool of Horizon Europe, and contribute significantly to achieving the EU’s political priorities.
By bringing private and public partners together, European Partnerships help to avoid the duplication of investments and contribute to reducing the fragmentation of the research and innovation landscape in the EU.
Find out more about Health related Partnesrhips:
1. Innovative Health Initiative
IHI call 8 | IHI Innovative Health Initiative (europa.eu)
Brokerage event for IHI’s 2025 calls | IHI Innovative Health Initiative (europa.eu)
The Innovative Health Initiative (IHI) is a public-private partnership between the European Union and industry associations representing the sectors involved in healthcare, namely COCIR, EFPIA, Vaccines Europe, EuropaBio, and MedTech Europe. By supporting projects that bring together these industries as well as universities, small and medium-sized enterprises, patients, regulators and others, IHI aims to pioneer a new, more integrated approach to health research. Their approach moves the focus from disease care to health care, starting with disease prevention, and covering diagnostics, (personalised) treatments, and disease management.
2. EIT Health
EIT Health is a network of best-in-class health innovators with approximately 120 partners and is supported by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), a body of the European Union. We collaborate across borders to deliver new solutions that can enable European citizens to live longer, healthier lives. We connect all relevant healthcare players across European borders – making sure to include all sides of the “knowledge triangle”, so that innovation can happen at the intersection of research, education and business for the benefit of citizens
Our commitment to driving healthcare advancement is evident in our proactive role in mentorship, funding, and research facilitation. Recognised as a pivotal player in healthcare innovation, EIT Health's record of accomplishment includes: catalysing over 2,500 start-ups and scale-ups, helping EIT Health-supported startups attract €1.9 billion in investment, propelling 113 healthcare solutions to the market, and training 49,000 students and professionals.
3. EP PerMed
EP PerMed as a coordination platform brings together European as well as international, national and regional ministries and funding organisations, agencies and authorities, joining forces on several levels and sectors.
To realise the full potential of personalised medicine (PM), EP PerMed supports the entire PM value continuum by a wide range of definite actions, such as joint research funding and supporting activities, partnering and tailored tools, to accelerate PM innovations, which are completed by specific activities to support PM implementation. All activities are accompanied by supportive conditions regarding policy and regulatory frameworks, end-user engagement, education and knowledge exchange, aligned strategies and priority settings.
More information: Mission & Objectives - European Partnership for Personalised Medicine - EP PerMed
Upcoming call: end of 2024/beginning 2025
4. Transforming Health and Care Systems
The general objective of the European Partnership on Transforming Health and Care Systems (THCS) is to contribute to the transition towards more sustainable, efficient, resilient, innovative and high-quality people-centred health and care systems equally accessible to all people.
More: THCS (thcspartnership.eu)
5. ERA4Health
Era4Health Partnership gives the opportunity to increase European transnational collaborative research funding by creating a funding body for joint programming in priority areas addressing European public health needs.
The ERA4Health objectives are to:
- Support relevant medical research including clinical fields and intervention areas (prevention, diagnosis, treatment).
- Improve the utilisation of existing health technologies in clinical practice.
- Build capacity, in particular in conducting Investigator Initiated Clinical Studies at EU scale.
- Implement and advance the practice of responsible research and innovation (RRI) across the breadth of the programme.
More: ERA4HEALTH
6. JU EDCTP
The European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) exists to accelerate the clinical development of new or improved health technologies for the identification, treatment and prevention of poverty-related and neglected infectious diseases, including (re-)emerging diseases.
