HORIZON JU Research and Innovation ActionsClosedHORIZON-JU-IHI-2026-12-SINGLE-STAGE-05

Boosting innovation for better assessment of the added value of innovative integrated healthcare solutions

Horizon Europe

Per project€10M

1 phase

Deadline:2026-04-22

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Strategic Analysis

This call seeks to revolutionize how the added value of innovative, integrated healthcare solutions is assessed. Winning proposals must develop and validate new, comprehensive methodologies and models that go beyond traditional evaluations, ensuring solutions are safe, people-centred, effective, and affordable. A strong emphasis on real-world implementation, stakeholder engagement, and alignment with EU health strategies is crucial.

Scope Activities (6)

SC1

the high burden of the disease for patients and/or society due to its severity and/or the number of people affected by it;

SC2

the high economic impact of the disease for patients and society;

SC3

the transformational nature of the potential results on innovation processes where projects are not focussed on individual disease areas (e.g. health data analytics).

SC4

inform innovation-responsive guidance and regulatory science approaches;

SC5

demonstrate the ability to translate research into innovative solutions that can be integrated/implemented into the healthcare ecosystem (taking into consideration the fragmented nature of European healthcare systems) and/or into industrial processes.

SC6

carry out a landscape analysis to avoid unnecessary overlap and duplication of efforts with existing initiatives/projects and to identify potential synergies and complementarities with the relevant ones. The proposal should include a plan on how to synergise with these identified initiatives.

Expected Outcomes (5)

EO1

Applicants must define the outcomes expected to be achieved by their proposal, ensuring that they contribute to new and improved methodologies and models for a comprehensive assessment of the added value of innovative and integrated healthcare solutions in line with the IHI JU’s specific objective 5 as set out in the IHI JU Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA).

EO2

Actions (projects) to be funded under this topic must deliver results that address public health needs and support the development of future health innovations that are safe, people-centred, effective, cost-effective and affordable for patients and for health care systems.

EO3

These outcomes are also expected to benefit the relevant stakeholders in the healthcare ecosystem.

EO4

The expected outcomes may cover the entire spectrum of care from prevention to disease management and may be centred around disease areas, key themes such as prevention, precision diagnostics, personalised medicine, and chronic disease management.

EO5

They may also include enabling solutions for digitalisation, artificial intelligence (AI), regulatory science, greener and more sustainable healthcare and the deployment and use of these solutions into practice.