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.
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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.
