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IHI European HealthCare Incubator Network

European Commission · Horizon Europe Framework Programme (HORIZON)

Posted 2 Jul 2026 · 7 days left

In plain terms

The Innovative Health Initiative Joint Undertaking funds European consortia developing early-stage healthcare innovations and supporting startup companies across the health sector. Projects receive 9 to 35 million euros and applications in English are due by 8 October 2026 through a two-stage process.

A generated summary of the donor's text; the original wording is below.

Summary

Expected Impact:

The action under this topic is expected to achieve the following impacts and contribute to the following EU policies/initiatives:

deliver innovative, early technology solutions that contribute to addressing strategic unmet public health needs across multiple therapy areas to improve prevention, early diagnosis, and treatment;

leverage the unique network and scale of IHI JU members to create a pipeline to support innovative startups in the health industry, fully integrated into European initiatives in support of start-ups and entrepreneurship;

drive early cross-sector health R&D and innovation to strengthen the European healthcare industry’s global competitiveness, contributing to the EU Industrial Strategy and Pharmaceutical Strategy objectives;

create a sustainable network of European healthcare incubators to guide and support highly talented and innovative early-stage companies;

harness digital health and data-sharing technologies (e.g., AI and big data) to enable interoperable health solutions, contributing to the European Health Data Space (EHDS) and improved evidence based care;-

the action should generate a portfolio of early‑stage companies that have…

Excerpt from the donor's page. The full text, annexes and forms are on the original call.

Eligible regions

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Who can apply

ngo_cso
academia_research
private_company
government
social_enterprise

Eligibility and conditions

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">General conditions

1. Admissibility conditions: Proposal page limit and layout

described in Annex A and Annex E of the Horizon Europe Work Programme General Annexes.

Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System :

at the first stage of a two-stage call, the limit for RIA short proposals is 20 pages;

at the second stage of a two-stage call, the limit for RIA full proposals is 50 pages.

2. Eligible countries

described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes.

A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects. See the information in the Horizon Europe Programme Guide.

3. Other Eligibility Conditions

described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes and in the ''Conditions of the Calls for proposals and Calls management rules'' section of the IHI JU Work Programme (WP)

4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion

described in Annex C of the Work Programme General Annexes.

5a. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds

described in Annex D of the Work Programme General Annexes and in the ''Conditions of the Calls for proposals and Calls management rules'' section of the IHI JU Work Programme (WP)

5b. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes

described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes and the Online Manual.

5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement

described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes.

6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants

described in Annex G of the Work Programme General Annexes.

Specific conditions

described in the ''Conditions of the Calls for proposals and Calls management rules'' section of the the IHI JU Work Programme (WP)

specific conditions on Availability, Accessibility and Affordability (3A) do not apply to this topic

JU's right to object to transfer/exclusive licensing

Information on eligibility for funding : Legal entities based in all countries associated to Horizon Europe, including Canada, Switzerland, the UK, and South Korea, will be eligible to receive funding under this call, in line with the normal rules.

Where relevant, templates of the reference documents and associated guidance can be found on the IHI JU website.

Regarding the application forms for submitting proposals, the relevant templates and annexes are available to download in the submission system of the Funding and Tender Opportunities portal.

The IHI JU 13th Call for proposals full topics text is available here.

Application and evaluation forms and model grant agreement (MGA):

Application form templates — the application form specific to this call is available in the Submission System

Evaluation form (RIA Actions – single and two-stage Calls procedure)

IHI JU Evaluation form for Research and Innovation Actions

Proposal Templates Part A and Part B (RIA Actions – single and second stage of two-stage procedure)

1. For 1st stage of two-stage calls

Proposal template - Part A : Part A of the proposal is generated by the IT system in the submission system, where applicants insert general information on their short proposal (e.g. proposal acronym), details of the participants, and the budget. For more information, see the Horizon Europe Stage 1 Part A template here. (Note that only Part A of this template applies to this call. For Part B, see below.)

Proposal template - Part B : IHI JU Proposal (RIA/SP) - PART B

Proposal Annex: Annex : Type of participants

Compulsory annex for Short proposals. The “type of participants” is an IHI specific annex related to Short proposals (first stage of two-stage calls). It can be found here. Instructions on how to fill in this template can be found here.

2. For 2nd stage of two-stage calls

Proposal template - Part A : Part A of the proposal is generated by the IT system…