Partnership website: https://www.ihi.europa.eu/
The Innovative Health Initiative (IHI) is a partnership between the European Union and industry associations representing the sectors involved in healthcare, namely COCIR (medical imaging, radiotherapy, health ICT and electromedical industries); EFPIA, including Vaccines Europe (pharmaceutical industry and vaccine industry); EuropaBio (biotechnology industry); and MedTech Europe (medical technology industry).
IHI is the successor of the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI), the world’s largest public-private collaboration in life sciences.
The partnership intends to
It will cover the entire continuum of care, from prevention and diagnostics to treatment and disease management.
The following organisations based in Flanders are partner in ongoing IHI projects (2022 calls):
Governance of IHI: The IHI States Representatives Group consists of representatives of the EU Member States & countries associated to Horizon Europe. The group is consulted on a range of issues, including the draft call topics. In this group, the Flemish government is represented by Kathleen D'Hondt.
Since it took off in 2021, IHI has launched several calls of proposals. Information on topics that are in the pipeline can be found on IHI's 'future opportunities' webpage. Information on calls that are currently open can be found on IHI's open calls webpage.
Currently, there is an open call:
All IHI calls for proposals are also published on the European Commission’s Funding & Tenders Portal. Find out more on how IHI call topics are generated here.
Innovative Health Initiative contact page Contact | IHI Innovative Health Initiative (europa.eu) or infodesk@ihi.europa.eu
Partnerships group the EC and private and/or public partners, to coordinate and streamline the research & innovation initiatives and funding in some selected key domains.
The UNCHAIN project, ‘urban logistics and planning: anticipating urban freight generation and demand including digitalisation of urban freight’ obtained funding from the Horizon Europe’s Mobility Cluster. The project focuses on breaking down data silos and promoting public-private data exchange across a unified European mobility data space, enabling more informed decisions and greater efficiency. The City of Mechelen is a partner in the project and takes on the role of ‘follower city’: it will work alongside the primary demonstration sites (in Madrid, Berlin and Florence) to maximize the geographical coverage and replicability of solutions across Europe. Mechelen aims to test 2 concrete solutions in the UNCHAIN project, with the aim to help addressing its current and future challenges in urban freight distribution.
