Health funding opportunities and events

 Funding opportunities

• Innovative Health Medicine (IHI) call 14 draft topic texts

• • Topic 1: Validation of human-relevant novel approaches to accelerate the discovery and pre-clinical development of innovative medicinal products and health technologies  

• • Topic 2: Validated, predictive approaches for clinical development of innovative personalised health technologies 

• • Topic 3: Transforming healthcare delivery through integrated, scalable and patient-centred care systems  

• • Topic 4: Advanced therapy medicinal products: Supporting manufacturing and clinical centre readiness in Europe 

• Innovative Health Medicine (IHI) call 15 draft topic texts

• • Topic 1: A common European approach to equitable patient access to compassionate use 

• • Topic 2: From early endpoints to long-term outcomes: Healthcare decision-making on the use of surrogate evidence for timely patient access 

• HORIZON-MISS-2026-07-CROSS-04 – Demonstrating place-based experimentation and innovation spaces as enabling environments for scaling EU Missions. Deadline: 13 January 2027

HORIZON-MISS-2026-07-CROSS-05 – Support to the demonstration of place-based experimentation and innovation spaces as enabling environments for scaling EU Missions 

• CALL HORIZON-HLTH-2027-01: Opening: 29 Oct 2026; Deadline(s): 17 Feb 2027, 10 topics
• CALL HORIZON-HLTH-2027-02- two-stage: Opening: 29 Oct 2026, Deadline(s): 17 Feb 2027 (First Stage), 16 Sep 2027 (Second Stage), 4 topics
• Call HORIZON-HLTH-2027-03: Opening: 03 Jun 2027, Deadline(s): 16 Sep 2027, 3 topics
• Call HORIZON-MISS-2027-02: Opening 10 February; Deadline 16 September 2027, 6 topics:

• • Clinical research by Comprehensive Cancer Infrastructures for the benefit of patients with common cancers 

• • Support a Young Cancer Survivor Quality of Life (QoL) research programme by cancer charities and funding agencies 

• • Leveraging functional genomics to reveal novel targets for cancer treatment 

• • Pre-commercial procurement of affordable solutions for healthcare systems in the areas of cancer technologies, cancer medical devices, or cancer medicines 

• • Phase 1 including first-in-human clinical trials to test biomarker-guided medicines or multi-modal treatment interventions for patients with rare or very rare cancers or cancer subtypes 

• • Improving equitable health outcomes and added value for and with cancer patients through health-economics research, health systems research and outcomes research 

•  Call HORIZON-BRIDGING-2027-06: Opening date: 20 October 2026 | Deadline date: 16 February 2027 (Single stage), 1 topic:
  • Valorising Horizon project results via innovation ecosystems 

• Call HORIZON-BRIDGING-2027-02: Opening date: 20 October 2026 | Deadline date: 28 January 2027 (Single stage), 3 topics, among which:
  • Advancing promising results from Pillar II collaborative research through the innovation journey 

•  Call topic HORIZON-BRIDGING-2027-03-04 Supporting the long-term resilience and European sovereignty of critical research data and knowledge repositories and scientific services for the life sciences

• Call HORIZON-NATURE-2027-03-01: Opening date: 03 June 2027 | Deadline date: 16 September 2027 (Single Stage), 1 topic:
  • Advancing interdisciplinary, data-driven research at the biodiversity- health interface under a One Health approach 

• Innovation Validation Call 2027 (EIT Health), deadline 13 January 2027
• Technology Transfer Offices & Entrepreneurship Support Call (EIT Health), deadline 2 November 2026
•  Innowwide (Eureka programme), Helping SMEs go global, 60 000 euros to assess the viability of research or commercial plans in international markets.
• ISIDORe II has launched a call enabling researchers to access specialised European research facilities, services and expertise free of charge to advance research on Andes virus (ANDV) and related hantaviruses. Deadline: 11 December 2026.

Events 

16 October 2026 – Horizontal Activities Info Day  

10-11 November 2026, European Research and Innovation Days 2026, Brussels 

16 November 2027, Online information day – EIC funding opportunities in 2027, online 

23-24 November 2026, Hera Industry Days 2026, the EGG Brussels – Connecting industry, innovation and policy for stronger health security 

24-25 November 2026, CLUSTER Health Horizon Europe Brokerage Event 2027, online. Opportunity to pitch (deadline on 13 November 2026) 

25 November 2026, AI and the future of European Frontier – Research and Innovation in Health, Registration, organized by Institute for Interdisciplinary Innovation in healthcare, ULB 

26 November 2026, Horizon Europe info days – Cluster 1 

2 December 2026, European Life Sciences conference, Driving an Innovative Economy, Brussels, Save The Date 

End January 2027: Brokerage event EU Missions. Organizer: NCP4Missions (TBC)