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 are open for submission and will close on 16 September 2025. They include the following topics:

Destination 3

Destination 4

Destination 5

Destination 6

Two-stage calls are open for submission. First stage deadline is on 16 September 2025. Successful proposals will go through to the 2nd stage with a deadline of 16 April 2026. They include the following topics:

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 EU Info Day recording is available here and HRB Cancer Mission webinar – Successes and Opportunities 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.

EU4Health calls for Tender

Open Calls

HADEA/2025/OP/0034: Administrative and secretarial support for the implementation of initiatives on digital health and the European Health Data Space (EHDS). Publication date 01 August 2025; Deadline 07 October 2025; Estimated values €1.0M.

HADEA/2025/OP/0045: Single Framework contract for supporting joint work of Member States in the field of Substances of Human Origin. Publication date 04 August 2025; Deadline 23 October 2025; Estimated value €4.0M.

Upcoming Calls

HADEA/2025/OP/0043 – PIN: Supporting the implementation of the new SoHO regulation. Publication date 16 September 2025; Deadline 31 October 2025; Estimated value € 3.5M.

Further calls for tenders are expected and will be published later in the year.

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

Horizon Europe Health Cluster and Cancer Mission 2026-2027

The 2026–2027 Health Cluster and Cancer Mission Work Programmes are under discussion within their respective Programme Committees (PC). Their official publication is expected for December 2025.

A new development on the preparation process of work programmes is that draft versions of the upcoming 2026–2027 Work Programmes have been made available on the European Commission’s Transparent Comitology Register.

It is important to note that these drafts are not finalised yet, and subject to change until their official publication at the end of 2025. Nevertheless, they are very useful for potential applicants to engage with the Work Programmes early and prepare effectively for calls for proposals as soon as they are published.

Find here the link to the latest drafts: