Health Cluster Work Programme

The Horizon Europe Health Cluster Work Programme 2025 is now published with over €960 million in funding allocated to health research.

Download the 2025 Health Work Programme here.

Download the General Annexes to the Horizon Europe Work Programme here.

The Health Cluster aims to promote and protect human health and well-being, prevent diseases and decrease the burden of diseases and disabilities on people and communities, support the transformation of health care systems and foster an innovative, sustainable and globally competitive European health industry.

To tackle these issues, the Health Cluster defined six intervention areas called “Destinations”. Dedicated funding calls will fall under each of these Destination areas:

 

  1. Staying healthy in a rapidly changing society
  2. Living and working in a health-promoting environment
  3. Tackling diseases and reducing disease burden
  4. Ensuring access to innovative, sustainable and high-quality healthcare
  5. Unlocking the full potential of new tools, technologies and digital solutions for a healthy society
  6. Maintaining an innovative, sustainable and globally competitive health.

National Contact Points

Applicants to Horizon Europe Health are supported by two National Contact Points, one based in the Health Research Board (HRB) and one based in Enterprise Ireland (EI).

The HRB Health NCP is Dr Irene Castellano, who can be contacted at icastellano@hrb.ie. A second EI Health NCP, Dr Martha Cahill, can be contacted at martha.cahill@enterprise-ireland.com.

An information session on Work Programme 2025, took place on 22 May 2025. Event information and event recordings are available at: HE Health Cluster InfoDay

All upcoming events are shared on the HRB X/Twitter and LinkedIn accounts.