Introduction to EU4Health

The EU4Health Programme (2021-2027) is the EU's ambitious funding programme for building a stronger European Health Union. With a budget of €5.3 billion, it supports actions aimed at improving and fostering health in the Union, protecting citizens from serious cross-border health threats, strengthening health systems, and making medicines, medical devices, and crisis-relevant products more available and affordable. It provides funding opportunities for organisations, health authorities, and stakeholders to collaborate on Union-wide health priorities.

Call Summary: Support for Conferences and Events

Objective

• To fund the organisation of non-profit, Union-wide high-level science-policy-society conferences.

• These events should bring together citizens, patients, practitioners, scientists, and policymakers at local, regional, and EU levels.

• Conferences must cover important health topics aligned with EU health priorities and contribute to the European Health Union.

Expected Outcomes

• Conferences with high-level speakers and a representative, multidisciplinary audience.

• Strong communication activities targeting the public or specific professional groups to raise awareness of the European Health Union and its initiatives.

• A clear Union-wide dimension: events must go beyond specific diseases to address cross-cutting EU health policy issues.

Scope

• Provide a platform for discussion and exchange of good practices between Member States, associated third countries, and stakeholders.

• Encourage collaboration on health-related challenges at the EU level.

• Grants will be awarded to conferences that clearly match EU4Health objectives and priorities and ensure a pan-European reach.

Eligibility Criteria & Requirements

Eligible Countries / Regions

• Entities must be established in:
  · EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories)
  · EEA / associated countries participating in the EU4Health Programme
  · Certain third countries associated to EU4Health

• International organisations are also eligible, and for them the "eligible country" rule does not apply.

Eligible Applicants / Entities

• Must be legal entities (public or private bodies).

• Natural persons are not eligible, except for self-employed persons (sole traders) where legal personality is not separate.

• Organisations without legal personality may exceptionally participate, provided their representatives can legally commit and offer guarantees equivalent to legal entities.

• EU bodies (except the European Commission's Joint Research Centre) are not allowed to be part of the consortium.

Eligible types of organisations include (but are not limited to):

• Public bodies (national, regional, local)

• Research institutions and universities

• Non‐profit organisations / NGOs

• Private institutions, including for-profit companies and SMEs

• Education & training institutions

• International organisations

Partnership / Consortium Requirements

• Proposals may be submitted by a single applicant or by a consortium.

• There is no mandatory partnership (i.e. a consortium is not required).

• If an entity is composed of members (e.g. an association), it may participate as the sole beneficiary, but if the action is implemented by its members, those members must also be involved as beneficiaries or affiliated entities; otherwise, their costs will not be eligible.

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