EU Funding for Health & Life Sciences
Health and Life Sciences research underpins advances in medicine, biotechnology, diagnostics, therapeutics, medical devices, and digital health. European funding programmes support the full innovation pathway—from frontier research and researcher training to collaborative projects, clinical validation, market uptake, and health policy implementation.
Key funding opportunities include:
- European Research Council (ERC): Frontier research funding for ambitious, investigator-driven projects across all areas of life sciences and biomedicine.
- Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA): Doctoral training, postdoctoral fellowships, and international researcher mobility.
- Horizon Europe – Cluster 1 Health: Collaborative projects addressing disease prevention, diagnostics, therapeutics, personalised medicine, digital health, and resilient healthcare systems.
- European Innovation Council (EIC): Support for breakthrough biotech, medtech, and digital health innovations.
- EU Missions – Cancer: Large-scale, impact-driven projects focused on cancer prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship.
- Research Infrastructures: Funding for biobanks, imaging platforms, data ecosystems, and advanced scientific facilities.
- EU4Health Programme: Supports health system strengthening, disease prevention, preparedness, and implementation of public health policies.
- LIFE Programme: Relevant for projects addressing environmental health, pollution reduction, healthy ecosystems, and climate-related health impacts.
- Innovative Health Initiative (IHI): Public-private partnership supporting collaborative research and innovation in pharmaceuticals, medical technologies, vaccines, and digital health.
- Global Health EDCTP3 Joint Undertaking (EDCTP3): Funds multinational clinical research and capacity-building projects focused on infectious diseases and global health, particularly in partnership with sub-Saharan Africa.
At EFMC, we help researchers, hospitals, universities, companies, and public organisations identify the most suitable funding schemes and develop highly competitive proposals across the full spectrum of Health and Life Sciences opportunities.