IHI European HealthCare…, …-2026-13-two-stage-01

IHI European HealthCare Incubator Network

Open now · HORIZON JU Research and Innovation Actions · two-stage · HORIZON-JU-IHI-2026-13-two-stage-01

Next cut-off

08 Oct '26

in 32 days

Per grant

€53M

the call's own average

Grants expected

projects that will be funded

Funding rate

100%

the full cost of the action

Expected Impact:

The action under this topic is expected to achieve the following impacts and contribute to the following EU policies/initiatives:

deliver innovative, early technology solutions that contribute to addressing strategic unmet public health needs across multiple therapy areas to improve prevention, early diagnosis, and treatment;
leverage the unique network and scale of IHI JU members to create a pipeline to support innovative startups in the health industry, fully integrated into European initiatives in support of start-ups and entrepreneurship;
drive early cross-sector health R&D and innovation to strengthen the European healthcare industry’s global competitiveness, contributing to the EU Industrial Strategy and Pharmaceutical Strategy objectives;
create a sustainable network of European healthcare incubators to guide and support highly talented and innovative early-stage companies;
harness digital health and data-sharing technologies (e.g., AI and big data) to enable interoperable health solutions, contributing to the European Health Data Space (EHDS) and improved evidence based care;-
the action should generate a portfolio of early‑stage companies that have undergone rigorous multi‑industry validation, significantly increasing their credibility with investors, regulators, and healthcare systems. This ‘industry quality seal’ should enhance the selected startups’ ability to secure follow‑on financing;

Trimmed here, the full scope, expected outcomes and award criteria are on the official topic page ↗.

Cut-offs

What applying costs you

Item	Estimate	Note
Drafting effort	8–10 weeks	short proposal, then a full one
Partner search	4–8 weeks	runs in parallel, and it is the part that slips
Time to first payment	9–12 months	cut-off → evaluation → grant agreement

Item

Estimate

Note

Drafting effort

8–10 weeks

short proposal, then a full one

Partner search

4–8 weeks

runs in parallel, and it is the part that slips

Time to first payment

9–12 months

cut-off → evaluation → grant agreement

These are Bemzu's estimates from the call's structure (the number of stages and whether a consortium is required) not figures published by the Commission. Only the co-financing share is read from the call itself.

Where these conditions come from

Two kinds of row. Most are the sentence we read the condition from, quoted out of the call itself. Some say plainly that they are not a quotation but the programme's own rule for this type of action, the EU portal publishes a table of contents where the conditions should be, so for a Research and Innovation Action the rate comes from the rulebook rather than from the fiche.

Condition	Quoted from the call, or the rule behind it
Consortium size	Not quoted from this call — Research and Innovation Actions under the Horizon Europe rules are at least three independent legal entities from three different Member States or Associated Countries, at least one established in a Member State.
Funding rate	Not quoted from this call — Research and Innovation Actions under the Horizon Europe rules are funded at 100% of eligible costs for every participant.
Maturity	• The Technology Readiness Level (TRL) is a scale (from TRL 1 to TRL 9) used to assess the maturity of a technology or innovation.

Condition

Quoted from the call, or the rule behind it

Consortium size

Not quoted from this call — Research and Innovation Actions under the Horizon Europe rules are at least three independent legal entities from three different Member States or Associated Countries, at least one established in a Member State.

Funding rate

Not quoted from this call — Research and Innovation Actions under the Horizon Europe rules are funded at 100% of eligible costs for every participant.

Maturity

• The Technology Readiness Level (TRL) is a scale (from TRL 1 to TRL 9) used to assess the maturity of a technology or innovation.

IHI European HealthCare Incubator Network

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Cut-offs

What applying costs you

Where these conditions come from

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