Innovative Health Initiative

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IHI is a health research and innovation partnership between the EU and Europe’s life science industries.

Use: R&D;
Date closing: -
Amount: -
Industry focus: Health;
Total budget: 2B €
Entity type: Public Agency
Vertical focus: All
Website: https://www.ihi.europa.eu/

Status:
Open
Funding type: Grant;
Geographic focus: Europe; European Union;
Public/Private: Public/Private
Stage focus:
Applicant target: SME; Startup;

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Overview

The Innovative Health Initiative (IHI) aims to translate health research and innovation into real benefits for patients and society, and ensure that Europe remains at the cutting edge of interdisciplinary, sustainable, patient-centric health research. Health research and care increasingly involve diverse sectors. By supporting projects that bring these sectors together, IHI will pave the way for a more integrated approach to health care, covering prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and disease management.

IHI is a partnership between the European Union and European industry associations representing the pharmaceutical, medical technology, biotechnology, digital health and vaccine industries, namely COCIR, EFPIA (including Vaccines Europe), EuropaBio, and MedTech Europe.

IHI’s total budget is €2.4 billion. Half of this comes from Horizon Europe, the EU’s research and innovation programme. The IHI industry partners have committed €1 billion to IHI, and a further €200 million can be committed by other organisations that decide to become Contributing Partners. IHI builds on the successes of the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI), which ran from 2008 to 2021. The IHI Programme Office continues to manage and promote projects launched under IMI.

Latest call

Call 10 has recently been published:

-Short proposal submission deadline: 23 April 2025 at 17:00 Brussels time

-Full proposal submission deadline: 14 October 2025 at 17:00 Brussels time

Application process

Proposals must be submitted via the electronic submission system of the Funding and Tenders Portal. To start submitting your proposal, simply click on the relevant topic above - this will take you directly to that topic's page on the portal. Once there, scroll down and click on 'Start submission'.

To submit a proposal via the electronic submission system, you will need to have an EU Login account and ensure that your organisation is registered as a beneficiary.