Deadline Date: April 21, 2026
The European Commission is seeking grant applications to support research and innovation that harnesses digitalisation and data exchange to improve healthcare delivery, patient outcomes, and the development of integrated health solutions.
The focus areas of the program include wider availability of interoperable, quality data following FAIR principles to facilitate research and integrated products, improved understanding of real-life patient behaviour and challenges through m-health and e-health technologies, advanced analytics and artificial intelligence to support clinical decision-making, shorten times to market, provide personalised health interventions, and demonstrate the added value of digital health tools with reduced bias. The program also seeks to strengthen the competitiveness of the EU’s health industry, foster European technological leadership and digital transformation, and implement the EU’s Life Sciences Strategy by unlocking the potential of new knowledge, data, and AI for breakthrough innovation.
This funding opportunity supports pre-competitive research and innovation for novel tools, methods, and technologies that advance the prevention, interception, diagnosis, treatment, and management of diseases while enabling more efficient recovery. Applicants are expected to form collaborative public-private partnership consortia capable of addressing the challenge of fully exploiting digitalisation and data exchange in healthcare.
Proposals must address unmet public health needs based on disease burden, economic impact, or transformational potential, demonstrate the ability to translate research into implementable solutions for healthcare systems or industrial processes, and include a landscape analysis to avoid duplication and identify synergies with existing initiatives.
The program offers a total budget of €43,300,000, with individual projects eligible for funding from €8,000,000 to €43,300,000 under a single-stage research and innovation action.
Eligibility is open to any legal entity, including entities from non-associated third countries and international organisations, provided they meet the Horizon Europe regulations and specific call requirements.
For more information, visit European Commission.
