Innovative Health Initiative (IHI)
Business Profile
Core Value Proposition
Innovative Health Initiative (IHI) provides funding and collaboration for health research and innovation across Europe through a public-private partnership under Horizon Europe.
Target Customer
{"Universities","Research organisations","Patient organisations","Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)","Mid-sized companies","Larger companies (depending on the call texts)"}
Key Differentiator
Applicant-driven cross-sector public-private partnership funding health research and innovation, enabling large-scale, multi-partner projects with open sharing of knowledge and data, engagement with regulators, and potential to strengthen Europe’s health industries.
Implementation Timeline
{"IHI Call 12 planned for launch in early 2026","IHI Brokerage Event 2025 scheduled for 4–5 November (in Brussels and online) with ongoing platform access until the call deadline"}
Pain Points
- 1Access to funding and support for cross-sector health research and innovation
- 2Creating and sustaining pan-European consortia spanning industry, academia, SMEs and patient groups
- 3Gaining early access to project results and resources (e.g., data, biobanks, labs, clinical centres) and opportunities to influence regulatory/HTA practices
Key Features
- 1Open and future calls for proposals with guidance for applicants
- 2Ideas Incubator to shape topics and proposals
- 3IHI Brokerage Event to network and form consortia
- 4Find Partners page and resources to build partnerships
- 5Project results, factsheets, and exploitation of results
- 6Open science practices and engagement with regulators
- 7Project documents, templates and call documents for applicants
Target Customer Industries
Client Results
- 1Addressing unmet public health needs and delivering research results that improve patients’ lives and health systems
- 2Strengthened competitiveness of Europe’s health industries
- 3Potential spin-outs, new funding opportunities, and expanded market opportunities for participants
Competitive Advantages
- 1Applicant-driven calls enabling researchers to shape topics
- 2Cross-sector collaboration across industry, academia, SMEs, patient groups
- 3Early access to project results and shared knowledge/resources
- 4Opportunity to influence regulatory, HTA, and payer practices
- 5Potential for spin-outs and new funding opportunities
Key Benefits
Case Studies & Success Stories
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Additional Product Information
Product Description
EU public-private partnership funding health research and innovation. By leveraging a range of scientific fields—from pharmaceuticals and biotechnology to medical technology and big data—IHI funds projects addressing public health needs, improves patient lives, and boosts the competitiveness of Europe’s health industries.
Target Market
Organizations across Europe eligible for Horizon Europe funding (universities, research organisations, SMEs, patient groups, mid-sized and larger companies) participating in cross-sector health research and innovation projects
Unique Value Proposition
IHI combines applicant-driven, large-scale cross-sector collaboration with European public funding to accelerate health R&D, provide early access to results and resources, and influence regulatory practices, all while strengthening Europe’s health industries.
Technical Requirements
For IHI call 12, proposals must adhere to a standard single-stage process and require half of the project costs to be covered by in-kind contributions from IHI’s industry members (and contributing partners, if relevant).
Pricing Model
IHI is funded as an EU public-private partnership; participation involves in-kind industry contributions for certain calls, with funding from Horizon Europe. Specific pricing per project is not provided in the content.
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