The European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA) has recently launched a call for proposals for EU action grants in crisis preparedness, under the EU4Health Annual Work Programme 2024. Will a budget of 149 million euros, this call will support the policy priority to enhance crisis preparedness and response for future health emergencies in relation to medical countermeasures, focusing on priority pathogens with pandemic potential.
New Topics for EU4Health
For the year 2024, four new topics have been published, with a deadline of 05/09/2024:
- EU4H-2024-PJ-01-1 (CP-g-24-10): Call for proposals on the European Hub for vaccine development (HERA).
- EU4H-2024-PJ-01-2 (CP-g-24-11): Call for proposals for next-generation respiratory protection (HERA), has a total budget of €20 million.
- EU4H-2024-PJ-01-3 (CP-g-24-12): Call for proposals to support innovative manufacturing technologies and processes in the Union for medicines production (HERA), counts with a budget of 17 million euros in total.
- EU4H-2024-PJ-01-4 (CP-g-24-105): Call for proposals to support the development of novel antivirals (HERA).
Who can be eligible for EU4Health
To be eligible, applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
- Be legal entities (public or private bodies).
- Be established in one of the eligible countries, namely:
- EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs)).
- Eligible non-EU countries: listed EEA countries and countries associated with the EU4Health Programme (list of participating countries).
Applications for both topics may be submitted either by a single applicant or a consortium of at least 3 applicants. The proposals must include one eligible applicant with expertise (proven by relevant past projects) in the envisioned technologies or processes.
What EU4Health will be reimbursed
Costs are reimbursed at the funding rate of 60%. Except for projects of ‘exceptional utility’ (funding rate of 80%), i.e., concerning:
- Actions where at least 30% of the budget is allocated to Member States whose GNI per inhabitant is less than 90% of the EU average.
- Actions with bodies from at least 14 Member States and where at least four are from Member States whose GNI per inhabitant is less than 90% of the EU average.
The budget categories and cost eligibility rules are fixed in the Grant Agreement. The eligible costs include: Personnel costs, subcontracting costs, purchase costs, indirect costs (flat-rate of 7% of the eligible direct costs).
EU4Health Criteria
The assessment criteria for this call are as follows:
- Relevance: clarity and consistency of the project, objectives, and planning; the extent to which they match the themes, priorities, and objectives of the call.
- Quality:
- Project design and implementation: technical quality; logical links between the identified problems, needs, and solutions proposed (logical framework concept); methodology for implementing the project, feasibility of the project within the proposed timeframe; cost-effectiveness (30 points).
- Project team and cooperation arrangements: quality of the consortium and project teams; appropriate procedures and problem-solving mechanisms for cooperating within the project teams and consortium (30 points).
- Impact: ambition and expected long-term impact of results on target groups/general public; appropriate dissemination strategy for ensuring sustainability and long-term impact; sustainability of results after EU funding ends (10 points). Individual thresholds per criterion: 21/30, 21/30, 21/30, and 7/10 points. Overall threshold: 70 points.
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