The Innovative Health Initiative (IHI) is a European Partnership under Horizon Europe, funded jointly by the European Union via HE and by health industry partners.
The Innovative Health Initiative (IHI) is a large-scale public–private partnership that brings together the EU and health industry stakeholders to accelerate the development of innovative healthcare solutions. It funds collaborative, cross-sector projects that tackle complex challenges—spanning medicines, medical technologies, digital health, and patient care. By fostering collaboration between academia, industry, SMEs, and patient organisations, IHI aims to deliver more integrated, sustainable, and patient-centred innovations for Europe’s health systems.
Open Calls:
The call contains five topics, each focusing on one of the five IHI Specific Objectives (SOs) as set out in the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA):
- Topic 1 (SO1): Boosting innovation for a better understanding of the determinants of health
- Topic 2 (SO2): Boosting innovation through better integration of fragmented health R&I efforts
- Topic 3 (SO3): Boosting innovation for people-centred integrated healthcare solutions
- Topic 4 (SO4): Boosting innovation through exploitation of digitalisation and data exchange in healthcare
- Topic 5 (SO5): Boosting innovation for better assessment of the added value of innovative integrated healthcare solutions
For full details of the topics, including the budget breakdown, read the call text. All documents relating to the call can be found via the Funding and Tenders Portal and the IHI call documents page. We advise you to read these documents, in particular the guide for applicants, carefully.
