New opportunities for international collaboration in the health sector

Published: 23 August 2022

Europe's new innovation partnership for health, Innovative Health Initiative (IHI) has opened its first offers of funding. Take the chance to be part of solving some of the world's major health challenges by participating in international cross-sector collaboration in research and innovation.

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The Innovative Health initiative (IHI) is Europe's new private-public partnership that drives and finances cross-border research and innovation in health. The initiative's first calls for proposals opened in June and focus on:

- Cancer, neurodegenerative diseases and health data
- Cardiovascular diseases and early feasibility studies
Proposal are made no later than September 20, 2022. To support the creation of actor constellations, IHI offers matching tools and events.

There are also great opportunities to influence the initiative's agenda and focus for future calls: You can read more about it here. Propose ideas | IHI Innovative Health Initiative (europa.eu).

What is IHI?

IHI is a private-public partnership between the EU and the industry organizations that represent companies in health and healthcare.

COCIR (Medical Imaging, Radiotherapy, ICT and Electromedical Company)
Efpia, including Vaccines Europe (pharmaceutical and vaccine company)
EuropaBio (biotech company)
MedTech Europe (medical technology company)

IHI has a total budget of 2.4 billion euros, which extends over 7 years and is financed jointly by the EU and the trade associations.

IHI's objective is to translate health research and health innovation into concrete benefits for patients and society and to ensure that Europe is at the forefront of interdisciplinary, sustainable, patient-centered health research. In order to succeed with research and innovation in healthcare, cross-sector collaboration is needed. IHI supports project that bring sectors together to pave the way for a more integrated strategy in healthcare, prevention, diagnosis, treatment and disease management.