Topic Code
HORIZON-HLTH-2026-01-CARE-03
F&T Portal
Call Identifier
HORIZON-HLTH-2026-01
Call 01 — single stage (2026)
Instrument
HORIZON-RIA
Research and Innovation Action
Budget Model
Actual Costs
Standard MGA
Funding Rate
100%
Annex G — RIA = 100%
Page Limit (Part B)
40 pages
RIA + actual costs (Annex A)
Evaluation Thresholds
4 / 4 / 4 · cum. 12
Non-standard — topic override
Expected Projects
4
~€10M per project (WP stated)
Destination
Ensuring equal access to innovative, sustainable, and high-quality healthcare
WP Part 4
Cluster / Pillar
Cluster 1 / Pillar II
Health
China Eligibility
Excluded ⚠
Destination excludes RIA/IA
Special Conditions
Non-standard thresholds ⚠
4/4/4 cum. 12 — not default 3/3/3
Chinese entities are excluded from RIA actions under this destination. Legal entities established in China are not eligible to participate in Research and Innovation Actions (RIAs) falling under Destination ‘Ensuring equal access to innovative, sustainable, and high-quality healthcare’.
This topic uses non-standard evaluation thresholds: 4 (Excellence) / 4 (Impact) / 4 (Implementation), cumulative 12. Standard thresholds are 3/3/3 cumulative 10.
Communication networks restriction: Entities assessed as high-risk suppliers of mobile network communication equipment (and entities they own or control) are not eligible to participate in this topic.
US entities eligible: In recognition of the opening of the US National Institutes of Health’s programmes to European researchers, legal entities established in the United States of America are eligible to receive Union funding under this topic.
Copernicus/Galileo: If the project uses satellite-based earth observation, positioning, navigation and/or related timing data, beneficiaries must make use of Copernicus and/or Galileo/EGNOS.
Expected Outcomes
- Healthcare providers and policymakers make use of evidence-based indicators and methodologies to identify low-value care practices, as well as opportunities for improvement and tools to monitor such improvements.
- Healthcare professionals are equipped with the knowledge and tools to implement guidelines for reducing or discontinuing low-value care activities and maintaining effective and patient-centred practices that ensure quality of care.
- Patients and citizens benefit from more effective healthcare, by understanding and endorsing measures that reduce low-value care, recognising the potential to achieve higher-quality healthcare and better health outcomes overall.
- Health and care systems benefit from a reduction of low-value care practices, which enables enhanced patient safety and quality of care, while contributing to their efficiency as well as fiscal and environmental sustainability.
- Healthcare organisations can, by identifying low-value care practices, reallocate valuable healthcare resources to other areas of need.
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