Description

The proposals are submitted by consortia involving EIT Health Core and Associate Partners as well as outside partners. They describe activities in the Innovation, Accelerator and Campus

To ensure that the activities have maximum impact, EIT Health requires that all activities comply with one of these six Focus Areas:

-Towards Health Continuum Pathways
-Bringing Care Home
-Creating the Enabling Environment for Healthcare Transformation
-From the Workplace to the Health Place: Employer Leadership in Improving Health Outcomes
-Harnessing the Power of Real World Data
-Fostering Healthy Lives by Introducing Behavioural Change

Citizen and Patient Engagement

All EIT Health activities shall collaborate toward improving the health and well-being of European patients and citizens, following a people- or patient-centred approach, where individuals’ specific health needs and health outcomes are the driving force behind healthcare decisions and quality measurements.

Eligibility Criteria and deadlines

-Project leaders must have submitted their Expression of Interest/Letter of Intent no later than 11 December 2019, 16:00 CET (Munich time).
-Proposals must be complete and submitted via the Plaza system by an EIT Health KIC Partner before the deadline, 25 March 2020,16:00 CET (Munich time).
-Proposals must be submitted by an EIT Health Core or Associate Partner, or a Linked Third Party. Exceptions apply for Innovation Projects under the new Start-Up Amplifier Tool.
-Proposals must include Core and/or Associate Partners who have paid their membership fees for the year 2020. Note on Partners: The funding for Associate Partners is capped at €350 000 p.a.
-Each proposal must reflect a ratio of: EIT Grant/(KCA + Co-funding) = 25/75.
-All for-profit KIC Partners (with a legal form classified as “Private” and “Business”) must contribute 30% co-funding (maximum reimbursement rate of 70%) of all KAVA costs for all projects or activities of the EIT Health portfolio. However, KIC Partners that are SMEs of the type “small” or EIT HEALTH BUSINESS PLAN 2021 CALLS – PAGE 10 “micro-enterprise” shall be able to have a maximum reimbursement rate of 100%. See this document for more information. For a complete list of for-profit entities at EIT Health, please go to Plaza under Partner Information. Please consult the Glossary of Terms for the definition of “cofunded KAVA”.
-Proposals must involve Partners from a minimum of two CLCs/InnoStars.
-See Individual Pillar sections for more information on Pillar-specific Eligibility Criteria.

Proposals need to prove a previous market study to identify needs and demonstrate a clear innovation, while presenting a viable business plan to reach the market or, in the case of organisational innovations, present a viable deployment strategy.

The EIT Health-financed part of the project should result in an innovation that has been technically validated and tested in a relevant environment, bringing the project to a point where it can attract early adopters or additional external financing. Market launch/deployment/regulatory approval for the innovation should be targeted for about two years following the completion of the project, and a clear path to this point should be presented.

About Innovation Activities:

-Market-facing Innovation Projects: Projects developing products and/or services that will generate immediate revenues when introduced in the market.
-System and Organisational Innovation Projects: Projects that have the main purpose of achieving radical transformations in healthcare systems and organisations to improve patients' health outcomes (i.e. generating efficiencies or costs savings) but do not necessarily create products or marketable services. This transformation should be carefully planned and evidence-based, and should demonstrate a strong sustainability case once the funding period is over.

About Campus Activities:

-Training for Students: Innovation Days, Continuing Degree Programmes & Summer Schools
-Training for Entrepreneurs & Innovators: EIT Health Fellowships Network
-Training for Professionals & Executives
-Citizen & Patient Engagement

About Accelerator Activities:

-In the INCUBATE! activity line, EIT Health Bootcamp Programmes train entrepreneurs and innovators to create robust business plans based on their business ideas, and to validate productsolution/product-market fit in intensive programmes of up to four months. These Bootcamps are complemented by extended programmes focused on ideation, incubation, and business creation – subject to their continuation in BP2021.
-In the VALIDATE! activity line, a strong emphasis is placed on helping start-ups and entrepreneurs utilise opportunities within the innovation communities. Examples include finding suitable Living Labs and Test Beds or using the Mentoring and Coaching Network to match mentors and coaches with individualised expertise. Furthermore, the Headstart Funding programme supports emerging companies and SMEs to develop new products and services and shorten time-to-market.
-In the SCALE! activity line, there will be a major focus on developing tools and networks that can provide financing for projects and small SMEs, as well as facilitating access to potential investors such as angel networks, corporate financers and crowd-funders. These activities are classified as SCALE-UP! programmes. Furthermore, the Accelerator offers programmes that support expansion. For instance, individually tailored offers will provide European start-ups and scale-ups – in the domain of Medtech, Biotech and Digital Health opportunities – to expand within European countries or into other global markets (e.g. the Bridgehead Programme).

More information in: https://www.eithealth.eu/business-plan-2021-calls-for-proposals