Matchmaking Neuroscience meets Bioinformatics

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.

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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. EIT Health

EIT Health is a network of best-in-class health innovators with approximately 130 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 enabling European citizens to live longer, healthier lives.

As Europeans tackle the challenge of increasing chronic diseases and multi-morbidity and seek to realise the opportunities that technology offers to move beyond conventional approaches to treatment, prevention and healthy lifestyles, we need thought leaders, innovators and efficient ways to bring innovative healthcare solutions to the market.

EIT Health addresses these needs. 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.

One of the Partners is the Łukasiewicz Research Network - PORT Polish Center for Technology Development, at which the Industry Contact Point Medical Technologies and Health is operating.

2. Innovative Health Initiative

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.

Innovative Health Initiative's (IHI) goals are to translate health research and innovation into tangible benefits for patients and society, and ensure that Europe remains at the cutting edge of interdisciplinary, sustainable, patient-centric health research. Health research and care increasingly involves diverse sectors. By supporting projects that bring these sectors together, IHI will pave the way for a more integrated approach to healthcare, covering prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and disease management.

3.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.

ERA4Health Partnership brings together 32 entities and 27 funding organisations from
21 countries, with the common goal of addressing public health needs, ensuring that combined financial resources are used in the most effective and efficient way, best practices are shared, knowledge is created, disseminated and used for the benefit of all key stakeholders.

Consortium partners are a mix of ministries, national and regional funding agencies, non-profit intergovernmental organizations and foundations. A number of the current consortium partners have been involved in previous ERANETs.

Through cross-national joint calls for proposals and making the most of interregional and international cooperation, ERA4Health aims to provide influential contributions as well as
a sustainable model of funding for ground-breaking translational research in the health domain across Europe and beyond.

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.

The partnership represents a unique strategic opportunity to bring together stakeholders, create synergies, coordinate Research and Innovation actions, facilitate the digitization of health and care services and support the transformation of health and care systems with innovative solutions driven by knowledge and evidence.

The THCS gathers partners with relevant knowledge and expertise from a total of 64 organisations established in 23 Member States and HE Associated Countries, including
9 regions, and 3 non-EU Countries, Switzerland, UK and the United States and 1 region, Scotland. It includes Ministries representatives, Research and Innovation Funding Organisations and Research Performing Organisations. The diverse competencies of the THCS Partners bring in a broad range of expertise and disciplines required to address the different activities the Partnership will perform.