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Call for proposals for health data for biotech innovation leveraging the European Health Data Space

This is a call for proposals for EU action grants launched by the European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA) under the EU4Health Programme. Specifically, topic EU4H-2026-SANTE-PJ-08 focuses on health data for biotech innovation leveraging the European Health Data Space. The initiative aims to establish a multistakeholder platform linking biotech industry, data holders, healthcare providers, patient organisations, regulators, and AI Factories to share best practices and drive data-based innovation. The programme will identify and prioritise the most promising AI and digital applications in biotechnology, while analysing key barriers to AI adoption in biotech and proposing strategies to overcome them. The grant is structured as a budget-based mixed actual cost grant with costs reimbursed at 60% funding rate, though exceptional utility projects may qualify for 80% funding.

ELEVATE: European League of Advanced Digital Skills Academies DIGITAL-2026-SKILLS-09-LEAGUE-OF-ACADEMIES

The European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA) has launched the 9th Digital Europe Call for Advanced Digital Skills (DIGITAL-2026-SKILLS-09) under the Digital Europe Programme to fund projects that strengthen advanced digital skills in line with the EU's Digital Decade and Competitiveness Compass goals. The first topic of the call aims at establishing the European League of Advanced Digital Skills Academies (ELEVATE) — an overarching framework designed to guide governance, enhance coordination, and ensure coherence among various sectoral initiatives. ELEVATE will foster synergies and support the effective implementation of objectives across existing efforts such as the Cybersecurity Skills Academy, the EuroHPC Skills Community, and the newly created advanced digital skills academies in AI, Virtual Worlds, Quantum, and Semiconductors. It will also align with other EU-funded projects focused on advanced digital skills, including DIGITAL-funded specialised education programmes, in order to reduce fragmentation. The consortium is expected to establish an agile governance structure and stakeholder engagement plan, develop quality and certification frameworks for ICT education, create mentoring, fellowship, and alumni networks, conduct market analysis on advanced digital skills supply and labour demand, and implement a communication strategy and repository hosted on the DSJP to share outcomes and best practices EU-wide.

European Advanced Digital Skills Competitions DIGITAL-2026-SKILLS-09-COMPETITIONS

The European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA) has launched a call for proposals under the Digital Europe Programme to fund projects that strengthen advanced digital skills in line with the EU's Digital Decade and Competitiveness Compass goals. The European Advanced Digital Skills Competitions initiative will serve as a catalyst for engaging young European people in cutting edge digital technologies. The competitions will support their creativity and connect them to the wider community of research organisations and industry players with the aim to address a highly relevant societal or industrial challenge. There will be six competitions each covering one of the following areas: AI, Virtual Worlds, quantum, semiconductors, the Destination Earth initiative as well as an additional area chosen by the consortium. The selected project will define at least three challenges for each competition. These challenges will address significant European or local societal, technological, and/or complex industrial issues, developed in close collaboration with Europe's leading research institutions and industry partners. Each challenge should involve multiple competing teams. These teams must include students from tertiary education institutions or equivalent, representing at least four different education and training institutions across four different EU Member States or countries associated with the DIGITAL Programme. Teams may also consist of students from a single institution. The active participation of women in the teams is strongly encouraged. The consortium is expected to design challenges, produce rulebooks, develop roadmaps, create communication strategies, organise an Award Ceremony in Brussels, and deliver a sustainability plan to ensure the competitions continue beyond the project's duration. The funding supports coordination and support actions with a 100% funding rate. The expected project duration is 48 months with a maximum available budget of EUR 7,000,000 per project.

UNITE Open Calls: Transform the Future of European Digital Health

UNITE is a €20 million pan-European programme under the European Commission's Regional Innovation Valleys initiative, designed to create a borderless European digital health innovation ecosystem. It aims to accelerate healthcare transformation through digital deep-tech solutions, tackling challenges linked to demographic change and ageing populations. The first UNITE Open Call aims to support innovative digital solutions addressing two key challenges: Advancing More Personalised and Human-Centric Remote Care, and Advancing European Health Data Spaces. The programme seeks to empower patients with tools to manage their health, increase access to care for remote populations, enhance patient care through improved data accessibility, and advance research and innovation by providing better data access. Each proposal must unite at least three organisations from three different UNITE regions including Zealand (Denmark), Northern Netherlands, Central Macedonia (Greece), Lombardy (Italy), Extremadura (Spain), Scotland (UK), and Romania.