CaixaImpulse Call for Applications: Health Innovation call
CaixaImpulse is calling for applications for the Health Innovation Programme.
CaixaImpulse Innovation helps to transfer scientific knowledge to society and encourages the creation of new products, services and companies related to life sciences. It supports innovative biomedical projects by helping them to validate their asset/s and define their valorisation and exploitation strategy, and by bringing them closer to the market.
The programme is organised in 3 stages to better meet the needs of the projects depending on their nature and maturity:
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Stage 1 is designed to support projects that are generating a proof of concept of the hypothesis of value from scientific findings for a potential asset or assets and initiating the search for IP right protection.
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Stage 2 is designed to support projects that have already identified and characterised the asset/s and require further validation and development, and are refining the prototype design through validation of the intended use.
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Stage 3 is designed to support projects that are on the path to regulatory filing and require an advanced characterisation of the asset/s, need to refine financial viability strategies and/or are exploring exploitation models.
Eligibility:
- For the projects:
– Projects must be related to the areas of life sciences and human health.
– Projects must have a clear focus on innovation, with specific relevant milestones towards the transfer of the asset/s to the market.
– Projects must belong to one of the following business areas: therapeutics, medical devices, diagnostics or digital health. - For the applicant institutions:
– They must be public-sector or non-profit legal entities based in Spain or Portugal.
– Type of entity: universities, university foundations, research and transfer centres, technology centres, hospitals, hospital foundations and non-profit institutions whose main activity is biomedical research.
– They must be the owner or co-owner of the asset/s resulting from the research.
– The same institution may complete more than one application provided that they are associated with different asset/s resulting from different research projects.
– Established companies are not eligible to apply to the call or to be partner institutions in consortia. - For the project leaders:
– Project leaders must be individuals with tertiary qualifications (university graduate, doctor or professor).
– The project must be the project leaders’ main occupation, and project leaders may not be involved in more than one application as project leader.
– The project leader may or may not be the principal investigator of the research project that generated the asset/s.
– The project leader must be connected to the applicant institution and they will require the institution’s consent to be able to submit the application.
Funding details:
- up to €700,000 if the project runs through all the stages (€50,000 max. in stage 1; €150,000 max. in stage 2; €500,000 max. in stage 3).
Read more here.
Important dates:
- Informative session – January 23, 2024
- Application deadline – February 22, 2024
