The EU’s Inno­v­a­tive Health Ini­tia­tive (IHI) has issued its eighth call for pro­pos­als, focus­ing on med­ical tech­nol­o­gy solu­tions for car­dio­vas­cu­lar dis­ease, osteoarthri­tis, and patient-cen­tred end­points enhanced by dig­i­tal health tech­nolo­gies. Pro­pos­als are due by Octo­ber 10, 2024, for reg­u­la­to­ry sand­box­es that sup­port break­through inno­va­tions in the EU. 

These sand­box­es cre­ate safe envi­ron­ments for reg­u­la­tors and indus­try to nav­i­gate com­plex reg­u­la­to­ry frame­works, par­tic­u­lar­ly for advanced tech­nolo­gies like arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence (AI).

Short­list­ed con­sor­tia will have until April 23, 2025, to sub­mit full pro­pos­als. Suc­cess­ful projects must deliver:

  1. A hori­zon scan iden­ti­fy­ing sand­box can­di­dates and their role in cur­rent frameworks.
  2. An analy­sis of the impact of sand­box­es on inno­va­tion in sci­ence and health tech.
  3. Rec­om­men­da­tions for using sand­box­es to guide health­care innovation.

A total of €47.6 mil­lion is avail­able from IHI, with an addi­tion­al €49 mil­lion from indus­try partners.

IHI is a pub­lic-pri­vate health part­ner­ship fund­ed by the Euro­pean Com­mis­sion and life sci­ence indus­try and part­ners. More infor­ma­tion is avail­able on the IHI web­site.

Source: Medtech Insight (an Infor­ma product)

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