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Research Infrastructures (RIs)

Research Infrastructures (RIs) aim to address global environmental, social and economic challenges by maximising science and technological contributions to meet societal needs whilst increasing the European Union’s (EU) competitiveness. RIs provide resources and services for the research communities to conduct research and foster innovation in their fields. Examples of resources and services provided include, but are not limited to equipment or sets of instruments, knowledge-related facilities, archives or scientific data infrastructures, computing systems, and communication networks.

Horizon Europe Collaborative Programmes – Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions COFUND

The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) COFUND supports regional, national and international programmes for training and career development. There are 2 types of COFUND: (i) doctoral Programmes that offer research training activities to allow doctoral candidates to develop and broaden their skills and competences, which will lead to the award of a doctoral degree; (ii) Postdoctoral Programmes, which will fund individual advanced research training and career development fellowships for postdoctoral researchers.
A call for proposals is expected to be published in January 2025.

European Partnership for Fostering a European Research Area for Health (ERA4Health)

The European Partnership for Fostering a European Research Area for Health (ERA4Health) is a partnership bringing together 37 entities from 24 countries. It aims to support transnational medical research in prevention, diagnosis, treatment, capacity building, and responsible research and innovation (RRI).
In 2024, three calls for proposals were published:
• NutriBrain, focusing on modulation of brain ageing through nutrition and healthy lifestyle (closed)
• NANOTECMEC, focusing on nano and advanced technologies for disease prevention, diagnosis, and therapy (closed)
• EffecTrial, focusing on pragmatic comparative effectiveness studies in non-communicable diseases (open)

EU Mission on Cancer

One of five EU Missions, the Mission on Cancer, together with Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan, aims to provide a better understanding of cancer, allow for earlier diagnosis and optimisation of treatment and improve cancer patients’ quality of life during and beyond their cancer treatment. The Mission aims to support: an understanding of cancer, prevention and early detection, diagnosis and treatment, and quality of life for patients and their families.
In 2024, a call for proposals was published, covering six topics under Research and Innovation Actions (RIA) (closed).

European Partnership on One-Health Anti-Microbial Resistance (OH AMR)

The One Health Antimicrobial Resistance (OH AMR) partnership aims to support the coordination and alignment of AMR research activities and funding in Europe and beyond. The main goal is to contribute to achieving the objectives of the European One Health Action Plan against AMR and the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Action Plan on AMR by reducing the threat of AMR and contributing to achieving the objectives of the Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA).
In 2024, one call for proposals was published under the topic Tackling diseases and reducing disease burden (closed).

European Partnership for Personalised Medicine (EP PerMed)

The European Partnership for Personalised Medicine (EP PerMed) supports synergies in research on personalised medicine across the European Union (EU) and its regional partners. The main objectives of the partnership are to (i) ensure a faster uptake of research and innovation (R&I) results into clinical practice and secure Europe’s position in state-of-the-art healthcare provision; (ii) facilitate approaches that take into account individual differences and better utilise the accumulating data to manage health, disease and its predisposition; (iii) contribute towards more sustainable healthcare systems and independence in data intensive healthcare.
In 2024, one call for proposals was published (closed). A new call for proposals is expected to be opened in mid-December 2024: Joint Transnational Call (JTC) 2025, which aims to fund human health research on pharmacogenomic strategies for personalised medicine approaches. The call will close in June 2025, and the project is expected to start at the end of 2025/beginning 2026.

European Partnership on Transforming Health and Care Systems (THCS)

The European Partnership on Transforming Health and Care Systems (THCS) aims to support the transition towards more sustainable, resilient, innovative and high-quality people-centred health and care systems by pooling resources to tackle future health challenges.
In 2024, two calls for proposals were published:
• Joint Transnational Call (JTC) 2024 – Innovate to Prevent, focusing on the implementation of innovative person-centred health and care models addressing prevention strategies (closed)
• JTC 2025 – Better case closer to home: Enhancing primary and community care, focusing on strengthening primary and community health and care systems and providing policy and decision-makers with the necessary knowledge and tools to govern the transitions needed in the primary and community care sector (open)

Global Health EDCTP3 Joint Undertaking (GH EDCTP3 JU)

The Global Health EDCTP3 Joint Undertaking (GH EDCTP3 JU) is a partnership between the European Commission, representing the European Union (EU), and the EDCTP Association, representing the governments of 15 European and 30 sub-Saharan African countries. It supports the development of new solutions for reducing the burden of infectious diseases in sub-Saharan Africa and strengthening research capacities to prepare and respond to re-emerging infectious diseases in this region and worldwide.
In 2024, three calls for proposals were published:
• A two-stage call covering six topics under Research and Innovation Actions (RIA) (closed)
• A single-stage call under RIA (closed)
• A two-stage call covering one topic for Coordination and Support Actions (CSA) (closed)

European Partnership on Innovative SMEs (INNOVSMES)

The European Partnership for Innovative SMEs (INNOVSMES) supports small- and medium-sized companies (SMEs) and project partners (such as large companies, universities and research organisations) by funding international collaborative R&D and innovation projects. By participating, organisations can increase their research and innovation (R&I) capacity, their productivity and successfully embed in global value chains and new markets. The partnership is co-funded by the European Union through Horizon Europe.
In 2024 work programme, a joint transnational call for proposals to support Eurostars, one of the funding instruments introduced by INNOVSMES (closed).

What type of funding are you looking for?

  • Grant:
    Grants are direct financial contributions from the European Union budget awarded by way of a donation to third-party beneficiaries (usually non-profit-making organisations) engaged in activities that serve EU policies.
  • Loan:
    Loans are measures of financial support provided on a complementary basis from the budget in order to address specific policy objectives of the European Union. Such instruments are implemented in partnership with public and private institutions such as banks, venture capitalists or angel investors.

What stage of development are you seeking R&I funding for?

  • Basic science: Basic science covers the various exploratory steps even prior to discovery
  • Discovery: Drug discovery aims to find potential disease-altering targets, such as a gene or a protein in humans. Prior to testing candidate compounds for safety
  • Preclinical development: Preclinical development concerns the testing of candidate compounds for safety in specific indications or disease conditions. Introduction of candidate compound in living biological systems (animals)
  • Phase 1 clinical trials: These are the first clinical trials on humans(usually 20-80 volunteers) testing the safety, side effects, best dose, and timing of a new treatment
  • Phase 21/2b clinical trials: This is the follow-up trial with roughly 100 to 500 patients to analyse efficacy and safety
  • Phase 3 clinical trials: These trials usually involve several hundreds to many thousands patients and tests the results of earlier clinical trials on larger populations to generate robust data on safety, efficacy and benefit-risk relationships of the medicine. Comparison to placebo and/or active comparator (best standard treatment)
  • Registration & launch: This concerns post-study, prior to launch, activities related to market launch. That can include, among others, marketing authorisation, regulatory activities, post-study communication or HTA
  • Introduction & delivery: This concerns all post-launch activities

What do you want to develop?

  • Treatment or vaccine:
    Refers to a drug or vaccine
  • Diagnostic or medical device:
    Refers to diagnostics and medical devices
  • Platform:
    Refers to a digital health platform or medical app
  • Knowledge:
    Refers to conducting research to help build our understanding on a topic
  • Standards:
    Refers to creating a benchmark for a specific issue

What type of organisation are you?

  • Small & medium-sized enterprises:
    <250 employees, annual revenue <EUR 50,000,000) or balance sheet < EUR43 million. This applies to individual firms only. If part of larger group, check the User Guide: https://ec.europa.eu/docsroom/documents/42921
  • Large enterprises:
    >250 employees or annual revenue > EUR 50,000,000. Non-profit organisation (non-governmental organisations that are recognised with a non-profit status)
  • Non-profit organisations:
    Non-governmental organisations that are recognised with a non-profit status
  • Academic:
    Linked to a university or equivalent
  • Public:
    Local, regional, federal government representative

What stage of diagnostics development does your research aim to cover?

  • Development:
    Product development
  • Validation:
    Lab and clinical validation
  • Evaluation & Authorisation:
    Regulatory approvals
  • Access:
    Monitoring

What stage of medicine or vaccine development does your research aim to cover?

  • Discovery and development:
    Identification of promising compounds for development and initial experiments to gather information
  • Preclinical research:
    Laboratory and animal testing to answer basic questions about safety
  • Phase 0 (clinical):
    Testing on limited number of subjects at subtherapeutic doses
  • Phase I (clinical):
    Testing on <100 healthy subjects with the disease/condition
  • Phase II (clinical):
    Testing on up to several hundred subjects with the disease/condition
  • Phase III (clinical):
    Testing on 300 to 3,000 volunteers with the disease/condition
  • Preregistration / Phase IV (clinical):
    Testing on several thousand volunteers with the disease/condition
  • Clinical (unspecified):
    Clinical phase unknown
  • Evaluation & Authorisation:
    Activities relating to marketing authorisation
  • Access:
    Monitoring

Where are you based?

  • Africa : Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic (CAR), Chad, Comoros, Congo (Democratic Republic of the), Congo (Republic of the), Cote d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  • America (non-US & Canada) : Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay, Venezuela
  • Asia-Pacific : Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma, Brunei, Cambodia, China (including special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau), Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kiribati, Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Mongolia, Nepal, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Niue, North Korea, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, Solomon Islands, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Vietnam
  • Europe (non-EU) : Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Iceland, Kosovo, Liechtenstein, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Norway, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom
  • European Union (EU) : Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Republic of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden
  • Middle East : Cyprus, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Oman, Yemen
  • United States (US) & Canada : United States, Canada

What type of organisation are you?

  • Small and medium-sized enterprise (SME):
    Staff headcount 50 < and turnover ≤ EUR 10 m or balance sheet total ≤ EUR 10 m (small); Staff headcount 250 < and turnover ≤ EUR 50 m or balance sheet total ≤ EUR 43 m (medium)
  • Large enterprise:
    Staff headcount > 250
  • Non-profit organisation:
    Association, foundation, or equivalent
  • Academic:
    University, research institute, or equivalent
  • Individual:
    Private citizen
  • Public sector:
    Local, regional, federal government representative
  • Other:
    None of the above or uncertain