Horizon Cluster 1: Health
Funding that expects a clinical plan, not just a hypothesis.
Health funding is among the most competitive and the most procedurally demanding: reviewers expect a regulatory pathway, an ethics position and a credible route to patients, in the proposal rather than afterwards.
Specific to this sector
The ethics and regulatory sections decide more than the science
Proposals here are frequently strong on science and thin on the ethics approval, data protection and regulatory pathway sections, which are scored. Because those sections draw on documents an organisation already holds, they are the part a platform can draft properly rather than the part left until the final week.
Where the money is
The programmes that fund this sector, European and national. Each is screened against your organisation rather than listed for you to read.
- Horizon Europe Cluster 1
- Collaborative health research, consortium-based
- Innovative Health Initiative (IHI)
- Joint Undertaking. The EU funds half; industry members fund the other half, largely in kind, so a consortium needs industry partners, not only research ones
- EU4Health
- Health systems and preparedness rather than research
- EIC Accelerator
- Single-company deeptech, medtech and diagnostics eligible
- National health and R&D funds
- Usually the realistic first award
Alongside more than ten national funding sources. Most competitors cover one country at a time.
Who this covers
Eligibility in this sector depends as much on what kind of organisation you are as on what you are building.
- Biotech and medtech companies
- Hospitals and clinical networks
- University research groups
- Diagnostics and digital health
- Public health bodies
What kind of organisation are you?
The funding is the same. The argument for using us is not; it depends on whether you currently apply at all, pay somebody to, or answer for a whole territory.
See what Health & Life Sciences funding you qualify for
Upload a project description and the platform screens it against every open programme in this sector, European and national.