Clinical validation of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for treatment and care

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Programme Category

EU Competitive Programmes

Programme Name

Horizon Europe (2021-2027)

Programme Description

Horizon Europe is the European Union (EU) funding programme for the period 2021 – 2027, which targets the sectors of research and innovation. The programme’s budget is around € 95.5 billion, of which € 5.4 billion is from NextGenerationEU to stimulate recovery and strengthen the EU’s resilience in the future, and € 4.5 billion is additional aid.

Programme Details

Identifier Code

HORIZON-HLTH-2021-DISEASE-04-04

Call

Clinical validation of artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for treatment and care

Summary

Applying trustworthy-AI in healthcare contexts generate a multitude of benefits, including more effective disease management by optimised personalised treatments and assessment of health outcomes. Based on existing (pre)clinical evidence, proposals should focus on implementing clinical studies to validate AI-based solutions comparing their benefits versus standard-of-care treatments in non-communicable diseases. Proposals should pay special attention to the usability, performance and safety of the AI-based solutions developed, and above all to their clinical evaluation and (cost-)effectiveness in view of their inclusion into current clinical guidelines for personalised treatments following current EU regulatory framework.

Detailed Call Description

Proposals should address all of the following:

  • Supporting the clinical development, testing and validation of AI-assisted treatment and care options, hereby assisting in clinical decision-making.
  • Timely end-user inclusion along the clinical development of the AI-based solutions and the clinical validation process, considering the potential of social innovation approaches to support inclusion and dialogue between patients, carers and health care professionals.
  • Enhancing accurate prognosis for and response to a specific personalised treatment, hereby providing a solid risk assessment.
  • Inclusion of sex and gender aspects, age, socio-economic, lifestyle and behavioural factors and other social determinants of health, as soon as possible considering also early stages/phases of development.
  • Assessing potential manual or automated biases for large uptake.
  • Integration of an extensive information and communication package about AI-assisted treatment options;, highlighting their relevance for the patients and carers.
  • Measuring the (cost-)effectiveness of AI-assisted development of therapeutic strategies and its implementation in clinical practice.

Proposals should describe a pathway for establishing standard operating procedures for the integration of AI in health care. Additionally, they are encouraged to consider multidisciplinary approaches and allow for intersectoral representation, and they have to ensure that resulting data comply with the FAIR principles and data generated by the AI-based solutions are in line with established international standards.
Proposals should also focus on traceability, transparency, and auditability of AI algorithms in health.
International collaboration is encouraged, to ensure the comprehensiveness, interoperability and transferability of the developed solutions.

Call Total Budget

€60,00 million

Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan

100%

EU contribution per project: € 6,00 million

Thematic Categories

  • Health
  • Research, Technological Development and Innovation

Eligibility for Participation

  • NGOs
  • Non Profit Organisations
  • Private Bodies
  • Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
  • Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
  • State-owned Enterprises

Call Opening Date

22/06/2021

Call Closing Date

21/09/2021

National Contact Point(s)

Research and Innovation Foundation
Marinos Fotiadis
Contact Phone: 22 205 048
E-mail: mphotiades@research.org.cy
Website: https://www.research.org.cy/

Ioannis Theodorou
Contact Phone: 22 205 038
E-mail: itheodorou@research.org.cy
Website: https://www.research.org.cy/

(Publish Date: 03/08/2021-for internal use only)

EU Contact Point

European Commission, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation

https://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/research-and-innovation_en#contact