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Programme Description
IHI JU is based on the idea that interdisciplinary and cross-sector collaboration will enable perspective and breakthrough innovations in healthcare, including the pharmaceutical industry but also new fields such as biopharmaceuticals, medical technologies and biotechnologies.
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Summary
This topic focuses on the improvement of clinical management of heart disease from early detection to treatment.
Heart disease includes structural heart disease (SHD), coronary artery disease (CAD), heart failure (HF) and heart arrythmias, which are common, devastating, and heterogeneous medical conditions causing a high burden in Europe and worldwide.
Detailed Call Description
Applicants are expected to assemble a suitable cross-sectoral public-private partnership to propose activities to address the following objectives in heart disease. In this context, applicants may consider identifying and addressing only some critical aspects of the patients’ journey or specific care settings, with the aim of contributing to the overall care pathway improvement.
- Improve the efficiency of primary care, ambulatory or hospital care, considering how to optimise the patient pathway from one to the other and the transition among the teams in each care setting.
- Improve patient outcomes through earlier detection, better diagnosis, monitoring and/or treatment. This may include the development or deployment of innovative technologies or package solutions for early detection and diagnosis, or to seamlessly both treat and monitor (e.g. personalised imaging technologies, personalised sensing technologies, artificial intelligence (AI)-powered clinical decision tools, digital imaging, diagnostic technologies).
- Develop and implement measures and digital tools to enhance efficiency and optimise patient outcomes in primary and hospital care (e.g. reducing hospitalisations, disease burden and/or length of stay), and ensure a continuum between early detection, diagnostic and therapeutic approaches by guiding patients faster to the selection of the best treatment modality. This could be done for example via procedural automation, non-invasive testing, improved access to data, integrated pathways dashboards, and AI-powered clinical decision making.
- Develop personalised, patient-centric solutions in diagnosis and treatment to improve patients’ healthcare experience, considering the needs of specific populations such as children, elderly patients, cardio-oncology patients, or patients with co-morbidities.
- Adequate consideration should be given to the sustainability and scalability of the proposed solutions.
- Explore management strategies combining access to medical teams specialising in heart disease and social interventions to address population inequalities in outcomes. Also consider the heterogeneity of the healthcare system in Europe and generate evidence applicable across the diversity of European realities.
- Conduct an initial health economic study (such as cost-effectiveness analyses, budget impact models, etc.) of the proposed interventions on the healthcare system. The health economic study could include, for example, an analysis on whether an optimised management of heart diseases results in avoiding or reducing hospital treatment and the related costs.
- Patients and healthcare professionals should be engaged in all stages of the project from conceptualisation and throughout the implementation (e.g. in raising public awareness, education of patients, helping with the improvement of the referral pathway and the pathway to treatment, developing targeted training for relevant clinical staff).
- Consider the potential regulatory impact of the results and as relevant develop a regulatory strategy and interaction plan for generating appropriate evidence as well as engaging with regulators in a timely manner (e.g. national competent authorities, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) Innovation Task Force, qualification advice).
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Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
Expected contribution per project: €12.500.000
For all the above topics applicant consortia must ensure that at least 45% of the action’s eligible costs and costs for the action related additional activities are provided by in-kind contributions to operational activities (‘IKOP’), financial contributions (‘FC’s), or in-kind contributions to additional activities (‘IKAA’). IKOP and FCs may be contributed by the constituent and affiliated entities of both the private members and the contributing partners. IKAA may be contributed by constituent and affiliated entities of the private members only. Contributing partners and their affiliated entities cannot contribute IKAA.
Thematic Categories
- Health
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Central Government
- International Organisations
- Large Enterprises
- Legal Entities
- Other Beneficiaries
- Private Bodies
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- State-owned Enterprises
Eligibility For Participation Notes
ENTITIES ELIGIBLE FOR FUNDING
The following provisions shall apply:
- Legal entities identified in the topic text of the call for proposals shall not be eligible for funding from IHI JU. Nevertheless:
- These entities will be entitled to provide contributions as IHI JU members other than Union or contributing partners or as constituent or affiliated entities of either.
- Legal entities participating in indirect actions selected under this type of calls for proposals shall not be eligible for funding where:
(a) they are for-profit legal entities with an annual turnover of EUR 500 million or more;
(b) they are under the direct or indirect control of a legal entity described in point (a), or under the
same direct or indirect control as a legal entity described in point (a);
(c) they are directly or indirectly controlling a legal entity referred to in point (a).
The following additional condition applies:
- The applicants which are IHI JU members other than the Union, or their constituent entities and
- affiliated entities, and contributing partners and that are pre-identified in the topics – under the section ‘Industry consortium’ – of a call for proposals shall not apply at the first stage of the call. The applicant consortium selected at the first stage shall, in preparation for the proposal submission at the second stage, merge with the pre-identified industry consortium.
In addition, in line with Articles 11 and 119(1) and (3) of the Council Regulation (EU) 2021/2085, legal entities providing in-kind contributions as constituent entities or affiliated entities of IHI JU private members or as contributing partners that are:
- Not eligible for funding in two-stage calls for proposals; or
- Not established in a country generally eligible for funding in accordance with Part B of the General Annexes to the Horizon Europe Work Programme 2023 – 2024, may exceptionally sign the grant agreement.
This is subject to the following conditions:
- Their participation is considered essential for implementing the action by the granting authority; and
- They participate without requesting any funding.
The essentiality of non-EU legal entities for implementing the action shall be ascertained by the granting authority.
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EU Contact Point
All the questions pertaining to the IHI JU Calls are to be addressed to infodesk@ihi.europa.eu.