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Using Horizon 2020 as a platform for healthcare innovation
More than €10bn of funding is available to help innovators across the European Union meet their specific health research and needs.
Horizon 2020 is the...
Innovating and knowledge sharing to tackle COVID-19 in Europe
Finding solutions to the COVID-19 pandemic in Europe will require innovation in healthcare, collaboration, and knowledge sharing between governments, institutions, researchers, and organisations.
A pan-European...
EU Commission launches coronavirus data platform for researchers
The European Commission, together with several partners, has now launched a European COVID-19 Data Platform to enable the rapid collection and sharing of available research data...
Let’s put mental health at the heart of EU policy making
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) implored for action from the European Commission to develop a comprehensive EU Mental Health Strategy
The Coalition for Mental...
€4 million investment for innovations addressing women’s health and digital therapeutics
Did you know that EIT Health has just launched its 2020 Wild Card with €4 million investment? The investment is for disruptive solutions to...
French startup raises €1.8m to combat loneliness in chronic disease
With help from EIT Health Investor Network, French start-up Wefight, announced that they have raised €1.8m to battle loneliness in chronic disease.
Wefight are aiming...
EU awards 18 million euros for research into new antibiotics
An international consortium of research groups is aiming to develop novel new antibiotics to fight against the tuberculosis bacteria and two other deadly bacteria.
Set...
The DIGI-B-CUBE project: identifying AI and cognitive computing digital tech
DIGI-B-CUBE, funded by Horizon 2020, will facilitate the identification of AI and cognitive computing digital tech which can be applied by the Bioimaging, Biosensing...
EU consultation on the direction of research funding for future health systems?
Discover the TO-REACH project, which aims to prepare a joint European research programme to support health services & systems – could this be the...
Horizon 2020 and the Israeli Ministry of Health
Israel has enjoyed enormous success in EU framework programmes since first becoming associated in 1996. Here, Health Europa highlights the involvement of the Israeli...
Celebrating EU-Israel research and innovation collaboration
Health Europa charts the enormous success of EU-Israel research and innovation collaboration since the association of Israel to the EU framework programmes in 1996.
2016...
How is the EU tackling neurodegenerative diseases?
Health Europa investigates the work of the EU Joint Programme on Neurodegenerative Disease Research, the largest global research initiative aimed at tackling the challenge...
MHE joins plea for ministers to adopt mental health of workers directive
Mental Health Europe (MHE) has joined calls for ministers to adopt the directive for the mental health of workers, urging them to "respect European...
The EU Joint Programme on Neurodegenerative Disease Research
Professor Philippe Amouyel, chair of the EU Joint Programme on Neurodegenerative Disease Research, discusses the initiative’s new call to support health and social care...
Universal health coverage is focus of World Health Day 2018
This year’s World Health Day (7 April) will focus on getting universal health coverage for everyone, with the World Health Organization (WHO) calling on...
EU-supported wearable laser cures chronic skin conditions
EU-funded scientists have developed a wearable laser that will blast the skin with light and treat chronic skin conditions such as acne, actinic keratosis...