HORIZON EUROPE – Innovative Health Initiative JU Call 13 – 2026

Objectives

• To develop a European HealthCare Incubator Network that should create a unique, multi-sectorial network of business leaders and funders across the whole health industry and be exceptionally well placed to provide cross-industry business support and networking to promising start-ups
• To create a validated Artificial Intelligence (AI) Foundation Toxicology Model
• To elucidate the key biological determinants that drive healthy ageing and immune‑mediated disease

Topics

Open

• HORIZON-JU-IHI-2026-13-two-stage-01: IHI European HealthCare Incubator Network
• HORIZON-JU-IHI-2026-13-two-stage-02: An AI Foundation Toxicology Model and Framework to Support Waiving a Second Species in Drug Safety Studies
• HORIZON-JU-IHI-2026-13-two-stage-03: Decode the Immunoscience of age-related diseases

Additional information

• National Contact Points (NCPs): Click here

Useful

• Guidelines: Click here
• Other call documents: Click here
• Innovative Health Initiative website: Click here
• More information: Click here

• Total call budget: 53.2 million euros
• Budget per topic:
  • HORIZON-JU-IHI-2026-13-two-stage-01: up to 35 million euros
  • HORIZON-JU-IHI-2026-13-two-stage-02: up to 9 million euros
  • HORIZON-JU-IHI-2026-13-two-stage-03: up to 9 million euros
• Amount of the grant : between 9 million euros and 35 million euros
• Funding rate : up to 100% of the total eligible costs