ERA for Health
Partnership website: https://era4health.eu/
The Partnership 'Fostering a European Research Area for Health' (ERA4Health) brings the opportunity to increase European transnational collaborative research funding by creating a funding body for joint programming in priority areas addressing European public health needs.
Participation Flanders
The Partnership brings together 33 partners and 27 funding organisations from 22 countries. Among the consortium partners are Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) and Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (ILVO).
Located in Flanders & interested in the Partnership? Consult the dedicated FWO webpage.
Past calls for proposals
- CARDINNOV - Reserach targeting development of innovative therapeutic strategies in cardiovascular disease.
- HealthEquity - Increasing health equity through promoting healthy diets and physical activity.
- NutriBrain - Modulation of brain ageing through nutrition and healthy lifestyle
- NANOTECMEC - Nano and advanced technologies for disease prevention, diagnostic and therapy
You can register to the ERA4Health newsletter to stay informed about upcoming calls for proposals here: Newsletter - ERA4HEALTH
Key documents
- Find out more about the partnership in the partnership proposal (December 2021)
- The finalised Strategic Research & Innovation Agenda underpinning the Partneship was published in January 2022.
Contact
Commission services: RTD-SANTE-HE-HEALTH-CLUSTER@ec.europa.eu
Partnership: Contact - ERA4HEALTH
What are partnerships?
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.
How to use partnerships?
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orientation
Partnerships publish strategic documents, e.g. outlining the main research and innovation challenges or key focus points. -
networking
Partnerships often organise events, such as info days, brokerage events, etc. Meet potential partners and learn about the nuances that are not visible in the official documents. -
ecosystem analysis
Partnerships typically have an advisory board, and publish impact studies of previous actions. These are good sources of information to uncover the main R&D&I players in the domain. -
steering the agenda
Partnerships collaborate with the EC on outlining the strategy and the future funding opportunities in their domain, based on input from industry, academia, and other stakeholders.
Testimonial
Luciad - Geospatial software for mission-critical operations
Founded in 1999, Luciad serves clients in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Though it recently was acquired by Hexagon Geospatial, they kept an agile SME mindset. Thousands of end users work directly with Luciad’s geospatial applications, and major systems integrators (think Airbus Defense and Space, Lufthansa Systems, NATO, Thales…) incorporate its software in their own products.
NCP Flanders went to Leuven to interview Frederic Houbie, the Research Projects Manager at Luciad, about how he sees Horizon 2020. Luciad is a partner in the MARISA project, which is a collaborative RIA project submitted to an ICT call topic.
