EU funding updates
Information on the Horizon Europe and the EU4 Health research programmes, including new funding calls, opening dates and upcoming deadlines.
3 min read - 24 Apr 2025

Open Calls
Innovative Health Initiative
Please find the IHI Call 9 and 10 Days recordings here.
Innovative Health Initiative – call 9
IHI call 9 is a single stage, applicant-driven call with 5 topics aligned with the 5 specific objectives of the IHI Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda. The text of IHI Call 9 is published here.
Deadline for full proposals: 29 April 2025 at 16:00 IST.
Innovative Health Initiative – call 10
IHI call 10 is a standard, two-stage call with three topics.
Short proposal was submission deadline: 23 April 2025 at 16:00 IST.
Please, find the call text here and the topics below:
- Digital label: one source of comprehensive information for medical technology products
- Safeguarding innovation in secondary use of health data in the European Health Data Space (EHDS)
- Per- and Poly-fluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) exposure, emissions, and end of life management in the healthcare sector
Upcoming calls
Horizon Europe Health Cluster 2025
Horizon Europe Health Cluster 2025 Work Programme is expected to be pre-published in late April 2025.
The Horizon Europe Brokerage Event on the 2025 Cluster 1 Health calls for proposals will take place on May 5-6 2025.
2025 Health Cluster Info Day will take place on the 22nd May at 8am IST.
Cancer Mission 2025
Cancer Mission 2025 Work Programme is expected to be published early May 2025.
Cancer Mission 2025 Info Day will take place on the 23rd May at 8:30am IST.
For more information on Horizon Europe Health Cluster, IHI or the Cancer Mission, please contact the Health NCP at icastellano@hrb.ie
EU4Health
The 2025 work programme for the EU4Health programme is due to be published in Q2 2025.
EU4health Calls for Tender
Call status: Ongoing
HADEA/2025/OP/0013: Speeding up the access to and uptake of innovative Mpox vaccines. Publication date 13 March 2025; Deadline date 21 April 2025; Estimated value €4.9M.
HADEA/2025/CPN/0006-PIN: Development of a rapid point-of-care antimicrobial susceptibility testing diagnostic medical device. Publication date 04 April 2025; Deadline 19 May 2025; Estimated value €12.86M.
Call status: Upcoming
HADEA/2025/CPN/0008-PIN: Framework Contracts to speed up the development of and access to innovative medical countermeasures – Next-generation influenza vaccines. Publication date 07 April 2025; Deadline 19 April 2025; Estimated value €147.95M.
HADEA/2025/OP/0012-PIN: Multiple framework contracts for legal support services for compliance assessment of national transposing measures in the health and food safety areas. Publication date 31 March 2025; Deadline 12 May 2025; Estimated value €5.67M.
Further calls for tenders are expected and will be published throughout the year.
The tentative call calendar is published on HADEA’s webpage.
See also the HRB website for general information on the Horizon Europe and EU4Health programmes.
3 min read - 24 Apr 2025