Information on the Horizon Europe and the EU4Health research programmes, including new funding calls, opening dates and upcoming deadlines.

Open Calls

Horizon Europe Health Cluster 2025

The Horizon Europe Health Cluster 2025 Work Programme has been published and you can find it here.

Single stage calls opened on 22 May and will close on 16 September 2025. They include:

Destination 3

Destination 4

Destination 5

Destination 6

Two-stage calls opened on 22 May. First stage deadline is on 16 September 2025. Successful proposals will go through to the 2nd stage with a deadline of 16 April 2026.

Destination 1

Destination 2

Destination 3

Destination 6

2025 Health Cluster Info Day recordings are available here. Please, find in this HNN3.0 document, all the questions asked during the session with the link to the exact minute in the video where each question was answered.

Cancer Mission 2025

The Cancer Mission 2025 Work Programme has been published and you can find it here. Deadline for the Cancer Mission calls is 16 September 2025.

Calls include:

A joint call between the Cancer Mission and the Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities Mission is also open. Deadline for proposal submission is 4th September 2025.

Cancer Mission 2025 Info Day recording is available here.

For more information on Horizon Europe Health Cluster or the Cancer Mission, please contact the Health NCP at icastellano@hrb.ie

ERDERA Networking Support Scheme

The Networking Support Scheme (NSS) is a continuously open call designed to knit together researchers, clinicians and patient advocates working on rare diseases and rare cancers. Proposals may be lodged at any time, but the first collection round will be assessed immediately after the 7 October 2025 deadline, allowing successful teams to start planning events without delay.

Under the scheme, applicants can request up to €30,000 per networking event to cover meeting costs, travel costs, hybrid-meeting platforms and other essentials. Rounds will be held every six months until April 2029 – or until the dedicated budget is exhausted -providing a response pathway for emerging collaborations of the partnership.

What is the aim?

  • To promote the exchange of scientific knowledge.
  • To empower underrepresented countries to join and contribute to rare disease and rare cancer research.

Who is it for?

  • Clinicians, researchers, patient advocacy organisations and research managers working in or building new or expanding research networks.

Applications will be open on a continuous basis – collected every 6 months, starting 7 October 2025. Each event must gather applicants from at least three ERDERA countries and focus squarely on knowledge exchange in rare disease or rare cancer research. Meetings may run in person or in hybrid formats to maximise reach.

More information, such as guidance notes, evaluation criteria and the full list of eligible countries are available on the ERDERA website.

European Partnership for Personalised Medicine (EP PerMed) Education Call

The Education Call will provide funding (up to €50,000) to support the provision and development of educational content aimed at healthcare professionals (HCPs) in the implementation of personalised medicine (PM).

The gaps in the PM knowledge and skills among HCPs have been identified as one key barrier to the implementation of PM. This initiative will enhance the capacity of HCPs to integrate PM into their daily practice, ensuring they are equipped with the necessary knowledge, skills, and competencies.

The scope includes general and specialised education on PM and its implementation in clinical practice, interdisciplinary collaboration between HCPs, as well as effective communication of HCPs with patients. The courses will be designed and implemented collaboratively between selected consortia and EP PerMed.

The call aims to fund high quality content that will feed into online modules/ courses, that will be collaboratively developed with the Digital Learning Team supporting EP PerMed. All modules/ courses will be hosted and disseminated through the EP PerMed website and the eLearning platform designated by EP PerMed.

Application Deadline is 9 September 2025 and for further information see Education Call: Guide to Personalised Medicine for Healthcare Professionals – European Partnership for Personalised Medicine – EP PerMed

Innovative Health Initiative

Innovative Health Initiative – call 11

IHI call 11 is open and it is a two-stage call. Short proposal submission deadline is 9 October 2025 at 16:00 IST and full proposal submission deadline is 29  April 2026 at 16:00 (IST). Topics included in this call are:

IHI will hold a brokerage event in Brussels, Belgium on 4 – 5 November 2025 to provide people interested in IHI’s next single-stage call with the opportunity to network face-to-face and start forming consortia. Find more information here.

European Innovation Council (EIC)

EIC Pathfinder Challenges 2025

The EIC Pathfinder supports the earliest phases of scientific and technical research and development of future, groundbreaking, market-creating technologies. These visionary and high-risk projects are supported at an early stage (TRL 1-4) of development. Budget per project between €3 – 4 million.

The EIC Pathfinder Challenges is for projects that match any of the predefined thematic areas of the programme. There is one Challenge relevant for health researchers currently open. Closing deadline for proposals is 29 October 2025.

Upcoming calls 

EU4Health

The EU4Health 2025 Work Programme was published on 23 July 2025 and is available here

The first calls for proposals are expected to launch in September 2025.  The tentative call calendar is published on HaDEA’s webpage and will be updated with more specific timelines in due course.

See also the HRB website for general information on the Horizon Europe and EU4Health programmes.