Beyond Horizon Europe Cluster 1? More EU funding opportunities for your Health research proposal!
27th February 2025 at 4:28 pm
Have you checked out the draft Work Programme 2025 for Horizon Europe Cluster 1 (Health)? Are there relevant call topics for your research and project ideas? Does none of the call topics suit you? Either way, there are several other instruments within Horizon Europe specifically for research in the life sciences. These include health-related call topics in the EIC-Pathfinder Challenge and the Cancer Mission where we at accelopment have successfully supported several proposals and projects. Additionally, there are instruments within Horizon Europe that are open to any topic, be it Health or other research areas. These so-called “bottom-up” schemes include the well-known Doctoral Networks in which we at accelopment have been involved for many years and perhaps the lesser-known Transition instrument.
Alternative health funding opportunities
Beyond Horizon Europe, there are complementary European funding programmes that might offer opportunities for your research ideas including the following.
- EU4Health: The EU4Health programme was adopted as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic and to reinforce crisis preparedness in the EU. It aims to contribute to the long-term health challenges by building stronger, more resilient and more accessible health systems. Administered by DG SANCO, it also has a Work Programme with many call topics for research and innovation. However, since the funding mechanisms and requirements are different to those of Horizon Europe, checking out the rules first is important.
- European Partnerships: European Partnerships are joint initiatives of the European Commission and private and/or public partners to address some of Europe’s most pressing challenges through concerted research and innovation initiatives. There are about 50 European Partnerships at present, including several for the Health area and the life sciences, such as the Innovative Health Initiative, Global Health and Personalised Medicine Partnerships. These are categorised into three types of partnerships (institutional, co-funded and co-programmed) each of which follows different requirements and rules – a complex funding construct that is not easy to navigate.
Given the complexity of navigating multiple Work Programmes to find suitable call topics, we have developed streamlined processes to assist you in identifying and securing the right funding opportunities.
How to find the best fit? Strategic grant planning for you!
There are several ways to find suitable European funding opportunities. The obvious choice is to check out the draft Work Programme, search the Web and attend the Cluster-specific Information Day, usually organised by the EC a few months ahead of the submission deadline(s), or focused workshops offered by the so-called National Contact Points in different European countries. On the EU Funding and Tenders’ Portal, an event calendar is available for you to check out forthcoming events. We would be happy to meet you on one of these occasions! A more targeted and time-saving approach is our personalised strategic grant planning (sgp) service which we at accelopment offer to researchers and innovators based in Europe. The sgp helps you identify the best suitable Health funding opportunity for your research and innovation idea and plan your grant applications for the upcoming years. For the sgp, we use accelGRANTSTM, our intelligent, data-driven tool to analyse funding opportunities within Horizon Europe and beyond, ensuring that your innovative ideas meet the opportunities available. We would be pleased to identify the most promising instruments early on to help you stay ahead in a highly competitive research environment!
