The ERA4Health Partnership is currently running a survey to gather stakeholders’ views on the burden associated with several disease groups in the European Union, as well as on perceived gaps in treatment, diagnostics, research, and the implementation of measures to address these diseases.

More information and link to survey

The EP PerMed podcast ‘The Science of You’ aims to inform and educate about personalised medicine and the potential benefits it can bring to society and patients.

The ‘The Science of You’ podcast is currently available on Spotify, Amazon Music and Apple Podcast.

More information on EP PerMed website

DESCA (Development of a Simplified Consortium Agreement) is a comprehensive Model Consortium Agreement which offers a reliable frame of reference for project consortia. DESCA enjoys broad support within the EU framework programme community.

Updated model on DESCA website

The THCS Partnership is currently running a consultation among experts in several countries, collecting views on capacity building related to Research and innovation (R&I) for transforming health and care systems. 

The survey is open to researchers, R&I funders, policy makers, patient/citizen representatives, health and social care professionals, industry representatives and anyone who is interested in capacity building for R&I in relation to health and care systems.

Open the Survey

Each session will have a limited capacity of 15 participants.

Registration for the 2026 Health Cluster Brokerage event and completion of the coordination profile are required to participate.

The European Commission published in November an interim evaluation of the EU4Health Programme, the largest and most ambitious EU health funding programme ever.

The interim evaluation of EU4Health shows that the Programme is on track to achieving its objectives. There is significant progress in meeting targets in key areas such as: crisis preparedness and response; health promotion and disease prevention; cancer; and addressing the needs of rare disease patients through ERNs.

More information about the evaluation

European Commission has adopted the main Horizon Europe work programme for 2026-2027, a €14 billion investment designed to drive research and innovation (R&I) across the EU's strategic goals. 

A major novelty of the work programme 2026-2027 are horizontal calls, which address cross-cutting challenges across different research and innovation areas.

More in EC press release

In November at the  European AI in Science Summit in Copenhagen, organised by the European Commission and the Danish Presidency of the Council of the EU, Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen and Commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva launched the pilot of RAISE – the Resource for Artificial Intelligence Science in Europe

This new virtual institute is a flagship initiative under the Apply AI Strategy and the European Strategy for Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Science

More information on the EU website

The European Commission's European Research Executive Agency has published a guide to support research and innovation projects in maximizing the economic and societal impact of their results. The starter kit helps explore the key opportunities for meeting dissemination and exploitation expectations under Horizon Europe. It includes practical tips, step-by-step instructions, and a toolbox to help researchers make the most of their results.

Check out the guide: EU Publications website