Apply Now: Advancing Health Understanding and Disease Prevention

The program focuses on helping patients benefit from preventive treatment or early disease intervention before symptoms appear, promoting prevention and early diagnosis combined with better understanding of disease mechanisms to enable more cost-effective strategies, supporting regular monitoring of critical health parameters with validated tools, developing new vaccine strategies targeted to specific sub-populations, and increasing preparedness of healthcare systems for disease outbreaks. The initiative also aims to strengthen the competitiveness of the EU’s health industry by fostering technological leadership, digital transformation, and the translation of new knowledge into innovative health solutions while promoting holistic approaches like One Health.

This opportunity funds pre-competitive research and innovation for novel tools, methods, and technologies that support the prevention, interception, diagnosis, treatment, and management of diseases and facilitate patient recovery. Applicants are required to form collaborative public-private partnership consortia reflecting the integrative and cross-sectoral nature of the program, addressing unmet public health needs such as high disease burden, economic impact, and transformational potential of innovation. Projects must demonstrate the ability to translate research into implementable solutions within the healthcare ecosystem or industrial processes and carry out landscape analyses to avoid duplication while identifying synergies with existing initiatives.

Funding is available in amounts ranging from €8,000,000 to €60,000,000, with a total program budget of €110,000,000. Eligible participants include any legal entity worldwide, including entities from non-associated third countries and international organizations, provided they meet the conditions set by the Horizon Europe Regulation.

For more information, visit European Commission.