European funding opportunities to watch in 2018!

7 December 2017 - 11:13

Horizon 2020, the EU framework programme for Research and Innovation, will make more than 2 € Billion of funding available for innovators in Health and Care willing to build collaborative projects to address more than 50 topics related to Health, demographic change and well-being.

Collaborative Projects

Three calls for proposals containing 30 topics for funding are already open, with deadlines coming soon:

Better health and care, economic growth and sustainable health systems (22 topics): 18 April 2018
Digital transformation in Health and Care (7 topics): 24 April 2018
Digital trusted solutions and Cybersecurity in Health and Care (2 topics): 24 April 2018

SME Instrument

Not interested by collaborative projects? Good news for companies: the SME instrument scheme will still offer grants in 2018-2020 with 479M€ in 2018.

The SME instrument in a nutshell :

2 phases :
- 50 €k for phase 1 – feasibility/strengthening of business model – 6 months max
- 0,5 – 2 €M for phase 2 – scale-up / demonstration – between 6 months and 2 years, possible to team up with another SME
Bottom-up calls (no sector specific calls)

4 cut-off dates are planned for each of the phases in 2018: