The new Horizon Europe Calls are now open!

The new 2025 Horizon Europe calls are now open—Now is the perfect time to begin scouting partners, preparing proposals, and exploring funding opportunities!

These calls will support ambitious, collaborative projects that tackle Europe's most pressing health challenges. With a wide range of topics across key Destinations, there's a wealth of opportunities for researchers, innovators, and stakeholders across the health ecosystem. Whether your work addresses prevention, diagnosis, treatment, or healthcare delivery, there’s a Horizon Europe opportunity for you.


Explore the Full List of Cluster 1 – Health Topics:

  Staying healthy in a rapidly changing society;
  Living and working in a health-promoting environment;
  Tackling diseases and reducing disease burden;
  Developing and using new tools, technologies and digital solutions for a healthy society;
  Maintaining an innovative, sustainable, and competitive EU health industry;
  Ensuring equal access to innovative, sustainable, and high-quality healthcare.

These topics reflect Europe's commitment to a more resilient, equitable, and digitally empowered healthcare system.
Download the WorkProgramme
wp-4-health_horizon-2025_en.pdf

Topics Type Budget
(EUR million)
Budget/
project
Number of
projects expected
to be funded
Deadline
Destination - Tackling diseases and reducing disease burden
HORIZON-HLTH-2025-01-DISEASE-01: Testing safety and efficacy of phage therapy for the treatment of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections RIA 45.00 15.00 3 16 Sep 2025
HORIZON-HLTH-2025-01-DISEASE-03: Development of antibodies and antibody-derived proteins for the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases with epidemic potential RIA 50.00 10.00 5 16 Sep 2025
HORIZON-HLTH-2025-01-DISEASE-04: Leveraging artificial intelligence for pandemic preparedness and response RIA 35.00 6.00 to 8.00 5 16 Sep 2025
HORIZON-HLTH-2025-01-DISEASE-05: Support for the functioning of the Global Research Collaboration for Infectious Disease Preparedness (GloPID-R) CSA 2.00 2.00 1 16 Sep 2025
HORIZON-HLTH-2025-01-DISEASE-06: Implementation research addressing strategies to strengthen health systems for equitable high quality care and health outcomes in the context of non-communicable diseases (GACD) RIA 20.00 3.00 to 4.00 5 16 Sep 2025
HORIZON-HLTH-2025-01-DISEASE-07: Tackling high-burden for patients and under researched medical conditions RIA 30.00 6.00 5 16 Sep 2025
HORIZON-HLTH-2025-03-DISEASE-02: two-stage: Advancing innovative interventions for mental, behavioural and neurodevelopmental disorders RIA 50.00 6.00 to 8.00 7 16 Sep 2025 (stage 1)
Destination - Ensuring equal access to innovative, sustainable, and high-quality healthcare
HORIZON-HLTH-2025-01-CARE-01: End user-driven application of Generative Artificial Intelligence models in healthcare (GenAI4EU) RIA 40.00 15.00 to 20.00 2 16 Sep 2025
Developing and using new tools, technologies and digital solutions for a healthy society
HORIZON-HLTH-2025-01-TOOL-01: Enhancing cell therapies with genomic techniques RIA 50.00 8.00 to 10.00 5 16 Sep 2025
HORIZON-HLTH-2025-01-TOOL-02: Advancing cell secretome-based therapies RIA 40.00 9.00 to 13.00 3 16 Sep 2025
HORIZON-HLTH-2025-01-TOOL-03: Leveraging multimodal data to advance Generative Artificial Intelligence applicability in biomedical research (GenAI4EU) RIA 50.00 15.00 to 17.00 3 16 Sep 2025
HORIZON-HLTH-2025-01-TOOL-05: Boosting the translation of biotech research into innovative health therapies RIA 80.00 4.00 to 8.00 10 16 Sep 2025
Destination - Maintaining an innovative, sustainable, and competitive EU health industry
HORIZON-HLTH-2025-01-IND-01: Optimising the manufacturing of Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMPs) IA 40.00 6.00 to 8.00 5 16 Sep 2025
HORIZON-HLTH-2025-01-IND-02: Digitalisation of conformity assessment procedures of medical devices and in vitro diagnostic medical devices CSA 4.00 4.00 1 16 Sep 2025
HORIZON-HLTH-2025-03-IND-03: two-stage: Facilitating the conduct of multinational clinical studies of orphan devices and/or of highly innovative (“breakthrough”) devices RIA 40.00 6.00 to 8.00 5 16 Sep 2025 (stage 1)
Destination - Staying healthy in a rapidly changing society
HORIZON-HLTH-2025-03-STAYHLTH-01: two-stage: Improving the quality of life of persons with intellectual disabilities and their families RIA 40.00 6.00 to 8.00 5 16 Sep 2025 (stage 1)
Destination - Living and working in a health-promoting environment
HORIZON-HLTH-2025-03-ENVHLTH-01: two-stage: The impact of pollution on the development and progression of brain diseases and disorders RIA 40.00 6.00 to 7.00 6 16 Sep 2025 (stage 1)
HORIZON-HLTH-2025-03-ENVHLTH-02: two-stage: Advancing knowledge on the impacts of micro- and nanoplastics on human health RIA 40.00 7.00 to 8.00 5 16 Sep 2025 (stage 1)

Mission Cancer

The goal of the Mission on Cancer is to improve the lives of more than 3 million people by 2030, through prevention, cure and for those affected by cancer including their families, to live longer and better.


The four Cancer Mission objectives are:

  Understand;
  Prevent what is preventable;
  Optimise diagnosis and treatment;
  Support quality of life.

Its five transversal priorities are: ensure equitable access in all aforementioned areas, innovation, childhood cancer, personalised medicine and citizen engagement.


Spotlight on Cluster 6 – Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment

We’re also highlighting a selection of transformative topics from Cluster 6, focused on:

🌱 Investments in transformative innovations;
♻️ Achieving a circular economy and zero pollution;
🌿 Restoring European biodiversity.

Short selection of transformative topics from Cluster 6
Download the WorkProgramme
wp-9-food-bioeconomy-natural-resources-agriculture-and-environment_horizon-2025_en.pdf

Topic Type Budget
(EUR million)
Budget/
project
Number of
projects expected
to be funded
Deadline
Destination - Fair, healthy and environment-friendly food systems from primary production to consumption
HORIZON CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-02: Additional activities for the European partnership on animal health and welfare COFUND 120.00 120.00 1 16 Sept 2025
HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-03: two-stage: Making food systems more resilient to food safety risks through the deployment of technological solutions IA 12.00 6.00 2 04 Sept 2025 (stage 1)
Destination - Clean environment and zero pollution
HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-ZEROPOLLUTION-04: Towards a comprehensive European strategy to assess and monitor aquatic litter including plastic and microplastic pollution RIA 6.00 6.00 1 17 Sept 2025
HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-ZEROPOLLUTION-05: EU-India cooperation on cumulative impacts of marine pollution on marine organisms and ecosystems RIA 12.00 6.00 2 17 Sept 2025
HORIZON-CL6-2025-01-ZEROPOLLUTION-07: Reducing pollution from the food and drink industries IA 12.00 6.00 2 17 Sept 2025
Destination - Land, ocean and water for climate action
HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-CLIMATE-03: Understanding and managing medium and longer-term challenges and opportunities for agriculture stemming from shifting climatic zones and changing agroecological environments RIA 10.00 5.00 2 16 Sept 2025
HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-04: Enhancing plant protein production to bolster the resilience of agricultural systems and EU self-sufficiency in plant protein used as feed RIA 11.00 5.50 2 16 Sept 2025
HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-07: Fostering animal breeding and genetics for climate change adaptation and mitigation, improved robustness and resilience RIA 12.00 6.00 2 16 Sept 2025

   


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