Horizon Europe Cluster Health – Research and Innovation Funding

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October 19, 2021

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Innovation Procurement

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Biomedical Innovation | Cluster Heatlh | Horizon Europe | Research & Innovation

What is it about

The EU Research and Innovation Programme 2021-2027 has gathered a lot of attention from the research communities around Europe this time around with their Cluster Health topics that are open for proposals. The published destinations aim to address acute and long-term problems in the healthcare ecosystem and the health and well-being of citizens from a societal point of view – without forgetting the lessons learned from the Covid-19 pandemic.

Destination 1. Staying healthy in a rapidly changing society
Destination 2. Living and working in a health-promoting environment
Destination 3. Tackling diseases and reducing disease burden
Destination 4. Ensuring access to innovative, sustainable and high-quality health care
Destination 5. Unlocking the full potential of new tools, technologies and digital solutions for a healthy society
Destination 6. Maintaining an innovative, sustainable and globally competitive health industry

Cluster Health: Destination and deadlines

Cluster health is included in the Horizon Europe strategic plan with several aims:

Improving and protecting the health and well-being of citizens of all ages by generating new knowledge, developing innovative solutions and integrating where relevant a gender perspective to prevent, diagnose, monitor, treat and cure diseases.
Developing health technologies, mitigating health risks, protecting populations and promoting good health and well-being in general and at work.
To make public health systems more cost-effective, equitable and sustainable, prevent and tackle poverty-related diseases and support and enable patients’ participation and self-management.

More information on the policy and strategy, and the 2021-2022 Health Work Programme.

Always check the official webpage (link opens in a new window) for details:

HORIZON EUROPE / CLUSTER HEALTH: DESTINATIONS, APPLICATION STAGES & DEADLINES	DEADLINE (1st)	DEADLINE (2nd)
Destination 1. Staying healthy in a rapidly changing society
HORIZON-HLTH-2022-STAYHLTH-01-01-two-stage: Boosting mental health in Europe in times of change	1st Feb 2022	6th Sep 2022
HORIZON-HLTH-2022-STAYHLTH-01-04-two-stage: Trustworthy artificial intelligence (AI) tools to predict the risk of chronic non-communicable diseases and/or their progression	1st Feb 2022	6th Sep 2022
HORIZON-HLTH-2022-STAYHLTH-01-05-two-stage: Prevention of obesity throughout the life course	1st Feb 2022	6th Sep 2022
HORIZON-HLTH-2022-STAYHLTH-02-01-single-stage: Personalized blueprint of chronic inflammation in health-to-disease transition	21st Apr 2022
Destination 2. Living and working in a health-promoting environment
HORIZON-HLTH-2022-ENVHLTH-04-01-single-stage: Methods for assessing health-related costs of environmental stressors	21st Apr 2022
Destination 3. Tackling diseases and reducing disease burden
HORIZON-HLTH-2022-DISEASE-06-02-two-stage: Pre-clinical development of the next generation of immunotherapies for diseases or disorders with unmet medical needs	1st Feb 2022	6th Sep 2022
HORIZON-HLTH-2022-DISEASE-06-03-two-stage: Vaccines 2.0 – developing the next generation of vaccines	1st Feb 2022	6th Sep 2022
HORIZON-HLTH-2022-DISEASE-06-04-two-stage: Development of new effective therapies for rare diseases	1st Feb 2022	6th Sep 2022
HORIZON-HLTH-2022-DISEASE-07-02-single-stage: Pandemic preparedness	21st Apr 2022
HORIZON-HLTH-2022-DISEASE-07-03-single-stage: Non-communicable diseases risk reduction in adolescence and youth (Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases – GACD)	21st Apr 2022
HORIZON-HLTH-2022-DISEASE-07-01-single-stage: Support for the functioning of the Global Research Collaboration for Infectious Disease Preparedness (GloPID-R)	21st Apr 2022
HORIZON-HLTH-2022-DISEASE-03-01-single-stage: European partnerships fostering a European Research Area (ERA) for health research	21st Apr 2022
Destination 4. Ensuring access to innovative, sustainable and high-quality health care
HORIZON-HLTH-2022-CARE-08-02-single-stage: Pre-commercial research and innovation procurement (PCP) for building the resilience of health care systems in the context of recovery	21st Apr 2022
HORIZON-HLTH-2022-CARE-08-03-single-stage: Public procurement of innovative solutions (PPI) for building the resilience of health care systems in the context of recovery	21st Apr 2022
HORIZON-HLTH-2022-CARE-08-04-single-stage: Better financing models for health systems	21st Apr 2022
HORIZON-HLTH-2022-CARE-10-01-single-stage: European partnership on transforming health and care systems	21st Apr 2022
Destination 5. Unlocking the full potential of new tools, technologies and digital solutions for a healthy society
HORIZON-HLTH-2022-TOOL-11-01-single-stage: Optimizing effectiveness in patients of existing prescription drugs for major diseases (except cancer) with the use of biomarkers	21st Apr 2022
HORIZON-HLTH-2022-TOOL-11-02-single-stage: New methods for the effective use of real-world data and/or synthetic data in regulatory decision-making and/or in health technology assessment	21st Apr 2022
HORIZON-HLTH-2022-TOOL-12-01-two-stage: Computational models for new patient stratifiation strategies	1st Feb 2022	6th Sep 2022
Destination 6. Maintaining an innovative, sustainable and globally competitive health industry
HORIZON-HLTH-2022-IND-13-01-single-stage: Enhancing cybersecurity of connected medical devices	21st Apr 2022
HORIZON-HLTH-2022-IND-13-02-single-stage: Scaling up multi-party computation, data anonymisation tachniques, and synthetic data generation	21st Apr 2022
HORIZON-HLTH-2022-IND-13-03-single-stage: New pricing and payment models for cost-effective and affordable health innovations	21st Apr 2022
HORIZON-HLTH-2022-IND-13-04-single-stage: Setting up a European Smart Health Innovation Hub	21st Apr 2022
HORIZON-HLTH-2022-IND-13-05-single-stage: Setting up a European Electronic Health Record Exchange Format (EEHRxF) Ecosystem	21st Apr 2022

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