EIC Pathfinder Challenge Call for Proposals: Towards the Healthcare Continuum – technologies to support a radical shift from episodic to continuous healthcare

The European Innovation Council (EIC) calls for proposals for its Pathfinder Challenge “Towards the Healthcare Continuum: technologies to support a radical shift from episodic to continuous healthcare”.

The objective of this EIC Pathfinder Challenge is to develop systems and technologies starting at very low TRL for unobtrusive monitoring of human health with new continuous and personal imaging and sensing modalities, implementing continuous assessment, processing and analysis of the data to identify early signs of disease.

Specific objectives:

• develop a novel technology (device, instrument or full system)for unobtrusive proactive healthcare. The targeted technology should offer life-long health status monitoring and elements of predictive medicine with methodologies grounded in existing scientific evidence;
• the end objective must be a Proof-of-Concept and preliminary data suggestive of adequate safety and performance,  while paying attention to minimising false positives that could hamper its real-world use;
• the targeted technology should make the case for a clinically acceptable solution amenable to successful evaluation under common Health Technology Assessment (HTA) methodologies;
• the path to future integration in the European healthcare workflow, specifically in relation to the inter-operability with existing infrastructures, as well as take up and compliance by appropriate patient populations, should be plausible.

Eligibility:

• Member States of the European Union (including overseas countries and territories)
• Countries associated to Horizon Europe
• Low- and middle-income countries
• Proposals for this Challenge can be submitted by single applicants or by consortia, as dictated by the activities to be performed.

Funding details:

• EUR 4 million (funding rate 100% of eligible costs), larger amounts may be requested if properly justified
• Additional grants of up to EUR 50,000 to undertake complementary activities to explore potential commercialisation pathways or other portfolio activities.

Read more here.

Application deadline October 19, 2022.