On January 19th, 2023, a virtual Horizon Europe Info Day was held for the health cluster by the European Commission to inform applicants about topics included in the Cluster 1 'Health' work programme of 2023. This "Q&A on Calls 2023" document will give you the links to all topic presentations and Q&A sessions including the exact time in the video where the questions are answered.

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On June 1st, 2024, a virtual Horizon Europe Info Day was organized for the health cluster by the European Commission to inform applicants about topics included in the Cluster 1 'Health' work programme of 2024. This "Q&A on Calls 2024" document will give you the links to all topic presentations and Q&A sessions including the exact time in the video where the questions are answered.

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On May 22nd, 2025, a virtual Horizon Europe Info Day was organized for the health cluster by the European Commission to inform applicants about topics included in the Cluster 1 'Health' work programme of 2025. This "Q&A on Calls 2025" document will give you the links to all topic presentations and Q&A sessions including the exact time in the video where the questions are answered.

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On June 17th – 21st 2024, the Innovative Health Initiative (IHI) organized the virtual IHI Call Days for the Call 8 topics. The IHI Call Days aimed to inform potential applicants about the rules and procedures of the two-stage Call 8 and about each of the four topics.

The IHI Office has published the slides and videos of the topic presentations and the questions and answers (Q&A) online.

This document prepared by NCPs will give you the links to all topic presentations and Q&A sessions including the exact time in the video where the questions are answered.

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On January 07th – 16th 2025, the Innovative Health Initiative (IHI) organized the virtual IHI Call Days for the Call 9 & 10 topics. The IHI Call Days aimed to inform potential applicants about the rules and procedures of the single-stage, applicant-driven Call 9 and the two-stage Call 10, as well as about the three topics of Call 10.

The IHI Office has published the presentation and the recording of all sessions including the questions and answers (Q&A).

This document prepared by NCPs will give you the links to all sessions including the exact time in the video where the questions are answered.

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On June 23rd – 30th, 2025, the Innovative Health Initiative (IHI) organized the virtual IHI Call Days for the Call 11 topics. The IHI Call Days aimed to inform potential applicants about the rules and procedures of the two-stage Call 11 and to introduce the five topics.

The IHI Office has published the presentation and the recording of all sessions including the questions and answers (Q&A).

This document prepared by NCPs will give you the links to all sessions including the exact time in the video where the questions are answered.

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This workshop aimed to provide a comprehensive understanding of PCP within the Horizon Europe
framework. The event also featured an interactive Q&A session, allowing direct engagement with experts and clarify any doubts. During this session not all questions could be answered. The questions where
collected and here answers provided.

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On 28 February 2023, the European Commission held a virtual info session for National Contact Points (NCPs) about “blind evaluations in Horizon Europe”. Although this event was aimed at NCPs, the recording and slides are openly available and are also useful for Horizon Europe applicants.

This document will provide you with background information, links to the European Commission presentation and a list of questions raised during the Q&A session including the exact time in the video where each question is answered.

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The basis for this annotated version of the application template is the document “Information on clinical studies (HE)", published by the European Commission, version 4.3 of April 7th 2025. The new version contains clarifications on the use of the template and some editorial corrections.

Please be advised that the template is expected to be used for full proposals, if the application includes a clinical study and it concerns a topic including clinical studies. The template is offered for all topics under Cluster Health, but this does not mean that the template must be filled in for proposal submitted under all topics.

The comments of the Health NCPs are just recommendations and suggestions. Please always follow all instructions of the European Commission.

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- for Applicants

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HNN3.0 | Webinar on the Annotated Horizon Europe template "Information on Clinical Studies"
 

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This document aims to guide Horizon Europe applicants in the preparation of their Project Proposal, specifically the Section 2.3 of the Technical description (Part B), sharing tips and tricks to efficiently translate in the table, i.e. Impact Canvas, the key elements of the impact section, including different completed Canvases, that can be used as examples and references

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This Catalogue of partner expertise from the Widening Countries (Part 1) is a tool for Horizon Europe consortia building to identify and engage with potential partners from the Widening Countries who possess the specific skills and knowledge required for collaboration under Cluster “Health” calls. Profiles were collected from Horizon Europe Cluster “Health” centralised brokerage event and are listed as detailed profiles of individuals and their organizations, highlighting their specific skills, knowledge areas, and competencies.

Catalogue of partner expertise from the Widening Countries (Part 1)

This Toolkit on the Facility will provide support to legal entities from widening countries to join already ongoing Research and Innovation Actions (RIA) projects under the six clusters of Pillar 2 and the EIC Pathfinder of Horizon Europe.

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This fact sheet, developed jointly by the network of Horizon Health National Contact Points (NCPs), HNN 3.0, and the network of EU4Health National Focal Points (NFPs), NFP4Health, is intended to provide health stakeholders with a side-by-side comparison of some of the key features and possibilities of health funding within the European funding programmes Horizon Europe an EU4Health.

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The "Guideline for Partner Search" aims to guide Horizon Europe applicants in finding potential partners especially under the Health Cluster of the Programme, by providing them with tips on “how to get noticed”, how to choose the right channels to reach the right partners, and how to advertise at best their own expertise and background for R&I cooperation.

Two Annexes complement the "Guideline for Partner Search" and aim to guide applicants where to find (1) Clinical Centers for Clinical Studies in Horizon Europe and (2) Partners for other relevant EU initiatives, partnerships and programmes.

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Download Partner Search Annex 1 "Partner Search Tips for proposal with Clinical Studies"

Download Partner Search Annex 2 "Partner Search Tips for other relevant EU initiatives, partnerships and programmes"

The ‘Pitching Guidelines’ document contains tips for institutions from widening countries. The aim of this document is to help applicants prepare suitable materials that will have greater impact when they introduce themselves at brokerage events organised for Horizon Europe calls or other events of this type, which are mostly organised on-line.

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This document aims to give an overview of Health-related funding opportunities of the year 2025 across Horizon Europe. Each part of Horizon Europe has a Work Programme which lists the funding opportunities and calls for proposals. There is a specific Work Programme for Cluster Health, but you can find also Health-related funding opportunities in other programme parts. 

The 2025 Horizon Europe Work Programmes have over 2000 pages - so the aim of this document is to highlight the Health-related funding opportunities across Horizon Europe
 

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Episode 1: Overview of the Basic Functionalities of the Horizon Dashboard

In this episode we provide you with an overview of the Horizon Europe dashboard, highlighting the basic key-features and functionalities of the Dashboard including: filtering by Country, Framework Programme, and Thematic Priority. This video also covers the NUTS classification system for regional analysis, and provides you with some tips on downloading data for further evaluation. By the end of this episode, you should be able to effectively navigate and utilise the R&I Proposals Page of the Horizon Dashboard.

Episode 2: Extracting and Refining Data on the Horizon Europe Dashboard

In this episode of the Horizon Dashboard series, we delve deeper into the data accessible through the dashboard. This episode guides you on how to interact with the R&I Projects Page and Project Details sheet of the Horizon Europe Dashboard. By the end of this episode, you should be able to refine, sort, and extract data from specific countries and organization types, as well as search for organisation using their unique Participant Identification Code (PIC).

Episode 3: Exploring the Self-Service BI Page on the Horizon Europe Dashboard

In this episode, we explore the Self-Service Business Intelligence (BI) page within the Horizon Europe Dashboard. Building on the information from previous episodes, we guide you through how to use dimensions and measures to generate custom charts and tables.

You’ll learn how to navigate the Self-Service BI interface, select and combine dimensions and measures, generate and sort data tables and create visual representations such as bar charts.

By the end of this episode, you should be equipped to independently explore and visualise Horizon Europe data using the dashboard’s Power BI interface”.

On 4th of September 2024 HNN 3.0 hold this workshop to provide applicants a comprehensive understanding of PCP within the Horizon Europe framework. Participants were able to gain insights into both theoretical concepts and practical applications. The webinar also feature an interactive Q&A session, allowing direct engagement with experts and clarify any doubts.

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The HNN 3.0 network organized this webinar together with the European Commission.

The template "Information on Clinical Studies" needs to be filled out for every Horizon Europe application, if clinical studies are planned within the project. The annotated template was prepared by the HNN 3.0 network and is intended to support applicants and Health NCPs in filling out the template and to provide information and tips.

During the webinar the annotated template was presented in detail and an overview was given of which other helpful supporting tools the HNN 3.0 network has been prepared. Questions were answered by Jan Paehler from the European Commission and HNN 3.0 Health NCPs.

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The HNN 3.0 network organized an online webinar for Cluster Health, EU4Health and Mission NCP about background and general updates of the Mission Cancer. The focus lied on clustering of projects, participation, synergies, Missions assessment and citizen engagement.

The HNN 3.0 network organized a NCP training in The Hague, Netherlands, about the on Evaluation process. The focus of the training was on how the evaluation process is organized, what are the criteria and sub-criteria, how the evaluators are approaching the proposals and also commenting the main remarks which are found in the ESRs.

The HNN 3.0 network organized a NCP training in Paris, France about Ethics in Horizon Europe. The main aim of this training was to bring awareness to the CL1 NCPs on ethics and to understand on how to better support applicants on answering the ethics sections of collaborative R&I projects under Horizon Europe. The outcome of the training was to gain knowledge on how to identify ethical issues in the proposals and to better orient applicants in their replies to ethical section and annex. A focus was made on real cases and AI. 

The HNN 3.0 network organized a training together with Cluster 4 Industrial Technologies (NCP4Industry) and Cluster 5 (GREENET) about Cross-cluster opportunities from WP 2025 on 29.04.2025. During the online interactive session, the three NCP networks gave a brief overview of the services. Also, an overview on cross-cluster topics in the to-be-published Work Programmes 2025 of the three Clusters, e.g. industry-related topics in Cluster 1, was presented.

The aim of this webinar organized by HNN 3.0 was to learn more together about how to read and fill in the proposal template in order to be able to write a high competitive Health Horizon Europe collaborative proposal with a specific Q&A sessions during which related questions were answered.

The aim of this webinar organized by HNN 3.0 was to guide Widening Countries on Pitching Sessions and to present the new Pitching guidelines for Widening Countries. 

The HNN 3.0 network organized an online webinar for Health NCPs on the objectives, strategic priorities, and overall framework of the Global Health EDCTP3 Joint Undertaking.

This webinar offered an opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of the EDCTP3 initiative and its role in advancing global health research and innovation. While the webinar did not cover specific upcoming calls, it provided valuable context on the program’s overarching goals and structure.