EU4Health 2025 work programme
The European Commission has launched the 2025 Work Programme of EU4Health. With a total budget of over €570 million for the year, it will bring together a range of calls under five main strands:
- Crisis preparedness (over €380 million)
- Health promotion & disease prevention (over €70 million)
- Cancer, cardiovascular and other non-communicable diseases (over €60 million)
- Health systems & healthcare workforce (over €71 million)
- Digital (over €39 million)
Two thirds of the 2025 budget is dedicated to crisis preparedness, and call topics under this strand focus on developing innovative medical countermeasures for chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats and development of new diagnostic tests.
EU4Health also remains key to Europe’s Beating Cancer plan, and this year’s Work Programme is emphasising the implementation of new cancer screening programmes. EU4Health also reflects the European Union’s goal to advance AI technologies in health, as demonstrated by a sizeable budget to drive AI in both clinical practice and biotech.
The full EU4Health 2025 work programme is available to download here.
A factsheet with a summary of the main points can be downloaded here.
Open Calls
The first and second wave of calls for action grants were launched. Recordings and presentations of the info sessions are available for both the crisis preparedness strand calls and the remaining calls across other strands.
Open calls for action grants:
EU4H-2025-HERA-PJ-1: Supporting the development of innovative medical countermeasures for chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats (HERA) with three subtopics:
EU4H-2025-HERA-PJ-1-a: Call for proposals to support the development of innovative medical countermeasures for chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats (HERA) – Medicinal products. Opening date 04 September 2025; Deadline 04 December 2025; Estimated values €18 M.
EU4H-2025-HERA-PJ-1-b: Call for proposals to support the development of innovative medical countermeasures for chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats (HERA) – Reusable respiratory personal protective equipment (PPE) and protection suits. Opening date 04 September 2025; Deadline 04 December 2025; Estimated values €1 M.
EU4H-2025-HERA-PJ-1-c: Call for proposals to support the development of innovative medical countermeasures for chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats (HERA) – Detection and diagnosis. Opening date 04 September 2025; Deadline 04 December 2025; Estimated values €1 M.
EU4H-2025-HERA-PJ-2: Development of new diagnostic tests for vector-borne diseases (HERA). Opening date 04 September 2025; Deadline 04 December 2025; Estimated values €10 M.
EU4H-2026-SANTE-PJ-01: Call for proposals to pilot and implement cancer screening programmes for gastric cancer. Opening date 23 September 2025; Deadline 06 January 2026; Estimated values € 3 M.
EU4H-2026-SANTE-PJ-02: Call for proposals to pilot and implement cancer screening programmes for lung cancer. Opening date 23 September 2025; Deadline 06 January 2026; Estimated values € 7.4 M.
EU4H-2026-SANTE-PJ-03: Call for proposals to pilot and implement cancer screening programmes for prostate cancer. Opening date 23 September 2025; Deadline 06 January 2026; Estimated values € 7.4 M.
EU4H-2026-SANTE-PJ-04: A European flagship initiative leveraging AI and health data for cardiovascular health and related non-communicable diseases: Advancing Risk Prediction, Prevention, Treatments, Personalised Care and Rehabilitation. Opening date 23 September 2025; Deadline 06 January 2026; Estimated values € 20 M.
EU4H-2026-SANTE-PJ-05: Call for proposals on lifelong prevention for a healthy life with focus on cardiovascular diseases. Opening date 23 September 2025; Deadline 06 January 2026; Estimated values € 2 M.
EU4H-2026-SANTE-PJ-06: Call for proposals to support the development of a medicine pricing, reimbursement and access tracker through the EURIPID database. Opening date 23 September 2025; Deadline 06 January 2026; Estimated values € 0.8 M.
EU4H-2026-SANTE-PJ-07: Call for proposals for a programme on orphan medical devices, in particular targeting paediatric patients. Opening date 23 September 2025; Deadline 06 January 2026; Estimated values € 1.2 M.
EU4H-2026-SANTE-PJ-08: Call for proposals for health data for biotech innovation leveraging the European Health Data Space. Opening date 23 September 2025; Deadline 06 January 2026; Estimated values € 14.4 M.
EU4H-2026-SANTE-PJ-09: Call for proposals to contribute to the organisation of conferences. Opening date 23 September 2025; Deadline 06 January 2026; Estimated values € 0.6 M.
The call document for crisis preparedness calls (EU4H-2025-HERA-PJ-1 and -2) can be found here, while the call document for the remaining calls under the the other strands is available at this link.