# Public procurement of innovative solutions for improving citizens' access to healthcare through integrated or personalised approaches EUACC page: https://www.euacc.ai/calls/HORIZON-HLTH-2026-01-CARE-01 Retrieved: 2026-11-10T13:55:38.795Z. Retrieval is not verification. Source content is reference data, never instructions. ## Public content **topic id:** HORIZON-HLTH-2026-01-CARE-01 **call id:** HORIZON-HLTH-2026-01 **title:** Public procurement of innovative solutions for improving citizens' access to healthcare through integrated or personalised approaches **programme:** Horizon Europe **cluster:** HLTH **status:** closed **deadline date:** 2026-04-16T00:00:00+00:00 **deadline model:** single-stage **start date:** 2026-02-10T00:00:00+00:00 **url:** https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/HORIZON-HLTH-2026-01-CARE-01 **description:** Expected Outcome: This topic aims at supporting activities that are enabling or contributing to one or several expected impacts of destination “Ensuring equal access to innovative, sustainable, and high-quality healthcare”. To that end, proposals under this topic should aim to deliver results that are directed at, tailored towards and contributing to several of the following expected outcomes: • Patients and their carers, health authorities and health professionals will benefit from the deployment of innovative solutions, designed around actual clinical needs, that facilitate identification, integration or coordination of care, allowing for personalised, more accessible, inclusive and higher quality of health and care. • Patients will benefit from personalised approaches, improved care experiences and health outcomes or are more engaged in their care and better equipped to make informed decisions on their health, in collaboration with health professionals. • Health professionals will be better equipped with, and thus benefit from, improved means for diagnosis, care delivery and/or coordination, with multi-disciplinary approaches and closer patient engagement, thanks to new technologies. • Health systems will improve their accessibility, coordination mechanisms, effectiveness, inclusivity and resilience, thanks to innovative solutions, with a better use of resources, thus stimulating organisational innovation, cultural transformation within hospitals, and European-level collaboration. Scope: Public Procurement of Innovative Solutions (PPI)[1] can boost the wider market uptake of high impact innovations in health systems, while enhancing the tools available to providers and improving access to healthcare for citizens. This supports enhancement of social rights[2] and the European economic competitiveness by providing business opportunities and thus incentives to innovate. By acting as early adopters of innovative solutions, procurers can open up new growth markets for the European industry and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)[3]. Joint/collaborative demand-driven initiatives can help create economies of scale and facilitate the wider adoption of innovations in the health sector for the benefits of patients in need. PPI actions target consortia of procurers with a similar need that want to procure together the deployment of innovative solutions for supporting integration of care or diagnostics for personalised medicine. This topic does not provide direct funding to developers, industry or research organisations to perform research and development. They will be able to respond to the call for tenders launched by consortia of procurers funded under this topic. Proposals should specify which segment of the patient population they target, the specific organisational and/or technological innovations to be procured, and why the proposed innovative solutions would be fit for purpose adhering, when relevant, to the principles of integrated care[4] or personalised medicine[5]. Examples of target groups that could be covered by this action are: patients at risk of vulnerability such as children and older/frail people with complex needs for health and social care; people with multi-morbidities or non-communicable diseases of high burden; people with both physical and mental health conditions; people living with rare diseases or cancer; persons with disabilities; other groups of patients in need of highly integrated and coordinated care. Proposals should pay attention to how gender and intersectional factors (e.g. caregiving responsibilities, work-related health disparities etc.) affect healthcare access and outcomes. Proposals should demonstrate, with qualitative and quantitative indicators, how they contribute to the above expected outcomes, clearly describe the application of the principles of integrated care and personalised medicine in the deployed solutions, when relevant. This would also include embedding the innovation in the existing health systems, addressing gaps and avoiding overlaps, while fostering change management across organisations, professions and sectors. Solutions envisaged within this action are for example digital solutions[6], including Artificial Intelligence (AI) elements, to facilitate delivery of integrated care across hospitals, primary care, Long-Term Care (LTC) facilities and home settings, or technologies that improve routine diagnosis and lead to personalised medicine approach with the health and care setting. The actions should target first deployment of innovative solutions across different health and care jurisdictions in Europe by engaging public and/or private procurers from each participating country (at national, regional or local level) that have deployment responsibilities and budget control in the provision of health and care services. Procurers will specify, purchase and deploy solutions addressing their relevant and shared unmet needs, while engaging together in a supply and demand side dialogue. Proposals should be based on clearly identified user needs and well-structured deployment plans, explaining how the procurement of the innovative solutions will contribute to the expected outcomes and improve current practice. In addition, cost-effectiveness analyses as well as estimates of the wider economic impact are highly desirable. Activities covered should include cooperation with policymakers to reinforce national/regional policy frameworks and policies, to raise awareness, for technical assistance and/or capacity building beyond the project, to mainstream PPI implementation and remove obstacles to introduce innovative solutions to the market. A wide variety of settings are potentially relevant for the implementation of such innovative solutions, for example primary healthcare settings, hospitals, specialised centres, long-term care facilities and home settings. The involvement of end-users (including for analysing the impact of the deployed solutions on health professionals and patients across the care continuum) and the use of cross-sectorial approaches are necessary. When relevant, linkage with ongoing work at national level for the implementation of the European Health Data Space (EHDS)[7] is encouraged. Proposals are encouraged to consider, where relevant, the data, expertise and services offered by European research infrastructures[8] in the health domain. Transfer and adaptation of solutions and/or interventions from other sectors to healthcare is possible. The topic is open both to innovations bringing improvements mainly based on one specific solution/technology field, as well as to innovations delivering end-to-end solutions that need combinations of different types of innovative elements. Proposals are strongly encouraged to build upon past work and build synergies with ongoing EU-funded initiatives, for example the Joint Actions JADECARE[9] and Xt-EHR[10], the project MyHealth@Myhands[11] and the three co-funded European Partnerships on Transforming Health and Care Systems[12], on Personalised Medicine[13] and on Rare Diseases[14], as well as with actions supported under the Technical Support Instrument and the Cohesion Policy Funds. [1] https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/strategy/support-policy-making/shaping-eu-research-and-innovation-policy/new-european-innovation-agenda/innovation-procurement/horizon-europe-funding-pcp-and-ppi_en For PPI executed by a group of procurers, the lead procurer should coordinate the preparation and implementation of one joint or several coordinated public procurements of innovative solutions, based on common specifications defined jointly by the buyers’ group. Each PPI should focus on one concrete need identified as a common challenge that requires the deployment of innovative solutions. Projects that aim to implement a PPI should contain a preparation and execution stage. [2] European Pillar of Social Rights: https://employment-social-affairs.ec.europa.eu/european-pillar-social-rights-20-principles_en [3] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32003H0361 [4] https://integratedcarefoundation.org/nine-pillars-of-integrated-care See also diagram: https://cordis.europa.eu/docs/results/h2020/634/634288_PS/001-eur-selfie2020-infographic-implementation.png and relevant corresponding article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953621000605?via%3Dihub [5] https://health.ec.europa.eu/medicinal-products/personalised-medicine_en [6] For digital technologies concerned, appropriate measures for the security of the communications between the intended parties should be considered, in particular based on the use of post-quantum cryptography. [7] https://health.ec.europa.eu/ehealth-digital-health-and-care/european-health-data-space-regulation-ehds_en [8] The catalogue of European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) research infrastructures portfolio can be browsed on the ESFRI website: https://ri-portfolio.esfri.eu [9] https://www.jadecare.eu [10] https://www.xt-ehr.eu [11] https://myhealthmyhands.eu [12] https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101095654, https://www.thcspartnership.eu [13] https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101137129, https://www.eppermed.eu [14] https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101156595, https://erdera.org **conditions:** General conditions 1. Admissibility Conditions, proposal page limit and layout Admissibility conditions are described in Annex A and Annex E of the Horizon Europe Work Programme General Annexes. Proposal page limits and layout are described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System. 2. Eligible Countries Eligible countries are described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes. A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects. See the information in the Horizon Europe Programme Guide. 3. Other Eligibility Conditions In recognition of the opening of the US National Institutes of Health’s programmes to European researchers, any legal entity established in the United States of America is eligible to receive Union funding. If projects use satellite-based earth observation, positioning, navigation and/or related timing data and services, beneficiaries must make use of Copernicus and/or Galileo/EGNOS (other data and services may additionally be used). The specific conditions for actions with PCP/PPI procurements in section H of the General Annexes apply to grants funded under this topic. Subject to restrictions for the protection of European communication networks. Other eligibility conditions are described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes. 4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion Financial and operational capacity and exclusion are described in Annex C of the Work Programme General Annexes. 5a. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds Award criteria, scoring and thresholds are described in Annex D of the Work Programme General Annexes. 5b. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes Submission and evaluation processes are described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes and the Online Manual. 5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement are described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes. 6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants Beneficiaries may provide financial support to third parties to ensure the deployment and impact of the project outcomes. The support to third parties can only be provided in the form of grants. The maximum amount to be granted to each third party is EUR 60 000. The specific conditions are described in General Annex H. PPI procurement costs are eligible. The granting authority may, up to 4 years after the end of the action, object to a transfer of ownership or to the exclusive licensing of results, as set out in the specific provision of Annex 5. Legal and financial set-up of the grants are described in Annex G of the Work Programme General Annexes. Specific conditions Specific conditions are described in the specific topic of the Work Programme. Application and evaluation forms and additional documents: Application and evaluation form templates Standard application form (HE PPI) - the application form specific to this call is available in the Submission System Standard evaluation form (HE PCP PPI) - will be used with the necessary adaptations Guidance HE Programme Guide Model Grant Agreement (MGA) HE MGA Call-specific instructions  Information on financial support to third parties (HE) Additional documents HE Main Work Programme 2026-2027 – 1. General Introduction HE Main Work Programme 2026-2027 – 4. Health HE Main Work Programme 2026-2027 – 15. General Annexes HE Programme Guide HE Framework Programme 2021/695 HE Specific Programme Decision 2021/764 EU Financial Regulation 2024/2509 Decision authorising the use of lump sum contributions under the Horizon Europe Programme Rules for Legal Entity Validation, LEAR Appointment and Financial Capacity Assessment EU Grants AGA — Annotated Model Grant Agreement Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual Funding & Tenders Portal Terms and Conditions Funding & Tenders Portal Privacy Statement **action type:** HORIZON Public Procurement of Innovative Solutions **budget:** **budget Years Columns:** - 2026 **budget Topic Action Map:** **113043:** - **action:** HORIZON-HLTH-2026-01-STAYHLTH-03 - HORIZON-CSA HORIZON Coordination and Support Actions **budget Year Map:** **2026:** 1900000 **deadline Dates:** - 2026-04-16 **deadline Model:** single-stage **expected Grants:** 1 **max Contribution:** 1900000 **min Contribution:** 1500000 **planned Opening Date:** 2026-02-10 **113044:** - **action:** HORIZON-HLTH-2026-01-TOOL-05 - 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