Innovative Health Initiative calls
Innovative Health Initiative (IHI) calls for proposals
Open continuously
No deadline — apply whenever you are ready.
Large collaborative projects, typically EUR 10-30 million total, with EU cash contribution matched by in-kind contributions from industry partners. SMEs and startups receive EU cash funding as consortium beneficiaries.
Innovative Health Initiative Joint Undertaking
ppp · supranational
Deadline: Fixed cut-off dates — IHI runs single-stage and two-stage calls roughly twice a year. IHI call 11 was a two-stage call with topics on brain dysfunction, infections and non-communicable diseases, pharmacovigilance, type 1 diabetes and ambulatory surgical centres, with a short-proposal deadline of 9 October 2025.
This funder does not publish a success rate. We rank it using the rate observed across similar programmes and label it as an estimate rather than implying we know.
Quick — mostly identity and bank details.
Who can apply
- Sectors: health
- Stage: seed, Series A and growth
- R&D activity required
- Locally registered entity required
Applicants must be part of a consortium; SMEs from EU Member States and Horizon Europe associated countries are eligible for EU funding.
Related reading: How grant deadlines actually work
Source. https://www.ihi.europa.eu/apply-funding/open-calls
"IHI call 11 is a two-stage call with topics on brain dysfunction, the link between infections and non-commuicable diseases, pharmacovigilance, type 1 diabetes, and ambulatory surgical centres."
Verified on 14 August 2026
Source: www.ihi.europa.eu
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