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EU4Health programme 2021-2027 – a vision for a healthier European Union

The EU4Health programme was adopted as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic and to reinforce crisis preparedness in the EU. The pandemic highlighted the fragility of national health systems. The EU4Health programme will bring a contribution to the long-term health challenges by building stronger, more resilient and more accessible health systems. Health is an investment […]

First HERA Invest agreement signed to support research and development in cross-border health threats

Today, the Commission, through its Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA) and the European Investment Bank, have signed an agreement worth €20 million with the French biopharmaceutical company Fabentech. This will support the company's development and deployment of its broad-spectrum therapeutics to combat biological threats to public health. HERA's threat analysis has demonstrated the […]

Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan

Opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee. Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan: Driving forces for the security of medical radioisotopes supply (own-initiative opinion)

First Important Project of Common European Interest in the health sector

The European Commission has approved, under EU State aid rules, the first Important Project of Common European Interest (‘IPCEI') to support research, innovation and the first industrial deployment of healthcare products, as well as innovative production processes of pharmaceuticals. This IPCEI will notably contribute to the European Health Union's objectives by delivering innovations addressing diseases […]

The European Health Union

The European Health Union: acting together for people's health

European Health Union: stronger and better prepared for the future

Today, the Commission adopted a Communication on the European Health Union, which highlights the strides made in EU health policy over the last four years, for the benefit of citizens in the EU and worldwide. The start of this mandate was marked by the biggest pandemic in a century, which caused human suffering on a […]

Critical Medicines Alliance to help prevent and address shortages of critical medicines

The European Commission's Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA), working with the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU, have today launched the Critical Medicines Alliance at the margins of the informal EPSCO Council meeting of health ministers, as part of the actions to build a strong European Health Union. The Alliance brings […]

New funding, to protect 370 million children from polio every year

Today, the European Commission, the European Investment Bank and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced a new financing partnership to address critical global health opportunities: eradicating polio and ensuring that innovations in health are more accessible to the people who need them most. The World Health Organization and UNICEF, as implementing partners for the […]

Innovative Health Initiative

Horizon Europe. Research and Innovation Actions. Innovative Health Initiative JU Call 5: Accelerating the implementation of New Approach Methodologies and other innovative non-animal approaches for the development, testing and production of health technologies (HORIZON-JU-IHI-2023-05-01) Development and proof of principle of new clinical applications of theranostics solutions (HORIZON-JU-IHI-2023-05-02) Improved prediction, detection, and treatment approaches for comprehensive […]

European Health Union: HERA Invest offers €100 million for innovative solutions to health threats

Today, the Commission and the European Investment Bank announce the creation of HERA Invest, a €100 million top-up to the InvestEU programme, to support research and development (R&D) in the most pressing cross-border health threats, financed by the EU4Health programme. Currently, European companies find it difficult to access sufficient public and private funding for the […]

Implementation of national and regional SARS-CoV-2 Data Hubs

Horizon Europe. Cascade funding.  BY-COVID Support for the implementation of national and regional SARS-CoV-2 Data Hubs (HORIZON-INFRA-2021-EMERGENCY-01).

EU4Health Programme

EU4Health Programme. Project Grants. Calls for proposals: Call for proposals to support access to medical devices for cross border health threats (HERA) (EU4H-2023-PJ-01) Call for proposals to support stakeholders on the prevention of NCDs in the area of chronic respiratory diseases (EU4H-2023-PJ-02) Call for proposals on the prevention of NCDs in the area of mental […]
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