Bridging the Atlantic -

HEALTH 2025

'Horizon Europe' Matchmaking - Health edition

27 March 2025
4:00 PM-6:00 PM CET (Europe) / 11:00 AM-1:00 PM ET (Canada), Online

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what is bridging the Atlantic?

Bridging the Atlantic is a virtual matchmaking programme that brings together innovation leaders in Health like the private sector, research institutes, hospitals, universities and others, from Europe and Canada, to find the right partners and win Horizon Europe grants.

As part of the series, participants from Europe and Canada will engage in discussions on Horizon Europe Health calls, create working groups (consortiums)  and enhance their chances to win  Horizon Europe grants

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Who can join?

  • HealthTech companies: startups, SMEs, and corporates.
  • Municipalities, government bodies, hospitals, and NGOs.
  • Universities, research institutes, labs and researchers.

why join?

Exclusive matchmaking roundtables to foster EU-Canada Health partnerships around specific Horizon Europe health-related calls

Expert-led sessions offering insights into Horizon Europe funding opportunities

Expand your network and connect with key stakeholders to explore funding opportunities for your Health innovations!

Meet experienced coordinators and establish leading consortiums

Structured matchmaking & live pitching, facilitated by industry experts

Apply for a Booster Package with expert consultation

How does it work?

  1. Click the REGISTER HERE button below and fill out the registration form by 26 March to receive the link to the event and attend.

  2. Do you also want to pitch your idea at the event and increase your chance of finding partners? When registering, make sure to submit your pitch (optional)

    Please note: As spots are limited, your place at the event will be confirmed after we will review your application.

  3. All participants will receive a full list of registrants before the event for match-making purposes.

  4. The event will take place on Thursday, 27th March and will include 2-minute pitches by participants in dedicated breakout rooms All will be recorded and shared with registrants the following week.
  5. After the event, you can access our Networking Platform to reach out to potential collaborators and build your consortium. Good luck!
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The following selected topics will be featured in the event’s four breakout rooms:

HORIZON-HLTH-2025-03-STAYHLTH-01-two-stage: 
Improving the quality of life of persons with intellectual disabilities and their families

HORIZON-HLTH-2025-01-CARE-01:
End user-driven application of Generative Artificial Intelligence models in healthcare (GenAI4EU)

HORIZON-HLTH-2025-01-DISEASE-03:
Development of antibodies and antibody-derived proteins for the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases with epidemic potential

HORIZON-HLTH-2025-01-DISEASE-06:
Implementation research addressing strategies to strengthen health systems for equitable high-quality care and health outcomes in the context of non-communicable diseases (GACD)

HORIZON-HLTH-2025-01-DISEASE-01:
Testing safety and efficacy of phage therapy for the treatment of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections

HORIZON-HLTH-2025-01-TOOL-03:
Leveraging multimodal data to advance Generative Artificial Intelligence applicability in biomedical research (GenAI4EU)

HORIZON-HLTH-2025-01-TOOL-05:
Boosting the translation of biotech research into innovative health therapies

HORIZON-HLTH-2025-01-IND-01:
Optimising the manufacturing of Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMPs)

CANCER TOPIC A:
Examining the link between environmental exposure, pediatric cancer onset and health outcomes

CANCER TOPIC B:
Surgical interventions for locally advanced or metastatic disease

CANCER TOPIC C:
Clinical trials for targeted cancer therapeutics

Event Agenda:

TIME ET (CET)

Description

4:00 – 4:10 PM
(11 -11:10 AM)

Overview of Horizon Europe and Collaboration Opportunities with Canada

4:10 – 4:15 PM
(11:10 – 11:15 AM)

Introduction to EIT, its Networks, and Available Resources

4:15 – 4:20 PM
(11:15 – 11:20 AM)

Summary of Key 2025 Horizon Europe Health Topics

4:20  – 4:25 PM
(11:20 -11:25 AM)

Best Practices, Tools & Resources

4:25 – 4:40 PM
(11:25 – 11:40 AM)

Country Specific Strengths, Priorities, and Focus Areas: Canada, France, Ireland and the UK

4:40 – 4:45 PM
(11:40 -11:45 AM)

Introduction to Breakout Rooms and Q&A Session

4:45  – 6:00 PM
(11:45 -1:00 PM)

Breakout Room Discussion & Pitching 

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About EU Health research and Innovation

Health technology is crucial for the European Union as it addresses significant healthcare challenges, including an aging population, rising chronic diseases, and environmental health threats. The EU invests in research and innovation to develop solutions that promote long, healthy lives for its citizens. Under the Horizon Europe programme, key focus areas include health throughout the life course, environmental and social health determinants, non-communicable and rare diseases, infectious diseases, and the development of tools, technologies, and digital solutions for health and care, including personalized medicine. This comprehensive approach aims to enhance disease prevention, improve diagnostics and therapies, and ensure equitable access to high-quality healthcare across member states.

Read more about why HealthTech is important to the European Union

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Connect & Experience offers more than training. The C&E community network is an active EU online and offline community offering easy access to opportunities, curated content, matchmaking, soft landing services, and support. The community provides a space for community builders from Europe and Horizon Europe associated countries to interact, share best practices, and collaborate to enhance your startup community.

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Access to Healthcare

The Health not The Death is a fundamental human right. A healthy population is not to be seen as human and social capital, an input, or by-product, towards economic growth. Alongside a healthy and sustainable environment, a solidarity, a healthy population must be the ultimate goal especially nowadays in helping Ukrainian migrants with cancer and their families.

Solidarity in health is a cornerstone of EU health policy. There are wide disparities in many health outcomes across the region and those outcomes. The access rules dramatically affect healthcare systems which are at the forefront of the migrant way, the people who are searching for help and the way how we could enhance and support their healthier and wellbeing status.

In order to ensure their access to care and continued cure in need, the probability of receiving a timely diagnosis and of surviving differs greatly from country to country where they are now. There is lack of information, help and inequalities in access. People need help in navigating cancer knowledge, diagnostics, secondary monitoring and prevention, way of treatments, and care.

Shifting our mindset, supporting healthcare connectivity, removing inequalities overall across Europe is our mission and even more now in a time of crisis, helping the Ukrainian people dealing with cancer is a good place to begin this transformative revolution.

1) Whether we have a chance to foster more holistic and integrated approaches to receive information and care, by supporting coordination and maximising an enabling and health-enhancing effect of care across services from different countries?

2) Whether actions should address the social determinants of health, the countries where they are now, the health need which they have, the social and language barriers are the conditions which have to be taken into consideration in a coordinated manner?

How might we improve patients and /or people who seek healthcare support, access to healthcare services at an EU & the Member States Healthcare systems level? Especially in a time of crisis in Europe.

How might we support refugees fleeing from their countries by navigating them to medical centres to receive best available care?  

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Predictive Treatment

Precision medicine aims to personalise care for every individual. Nongenomic and genomic determinants, combined with information from patient symptoms, clinical history, and lifestyle (nutrition, physical activity, stress etc.), can facilitate personalised diagnosis and prognostics. Yet this goal requires access to massive amounts of data which may come from different structured and unstructured sources; these can be our medical records, laboratory testing, a range of medical devices as well as from the patient himself. AI & ML can combine input from these multiple sources, analyse them and identify biomarkers that can support health professionals make more informed decisions. The convergence of precision medicine with the advanced AI capabilities will improve the ability to personalise care – improve diagnosis, risk prediction as well as therapy planning.  

HCPs want to better predict treatment response, given uncertainty around which treatment to prescribe to which patient and when to prescribe. How do we risk assess the patients, match them with the right treatment (personalised). How can we transform the wealth of data and link it to the predictive nature of how the patient will respond?

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Patient Journey Navigation

Being diagnosed with cancer is overwhelming and comes as a blow. Patients may feel on a roller coaster of emotions—they are scared, lost & confused not knowing what to expect, who to refer to, what to do and how to tell their loved ones.  They directly refer to “Dr. Google” to look for information about their disease, possible treatments, QoL strategies with the aim to have better understanding of their disease and learn how to better cope with their disease & treatment, yet information is not always valid, accessible, nor personalised or tailored to the patient’s status and needs therefore left with huge amounts of non-relevant information. Coming to the doctor, the physician’s time is limited and mostly focusing on the physical aspects of the disease & treatment, not leaving much time to ask questions nor discuss more holistic aspects of the disease such as emotional, psychological, social aspects. The patient (& caregiver in many cases) leaves the room with unanswered questions, doesn’t remember much of what has been said, and feels he is not heard, nor seen as a whole.

The need for navigating this journey along the emotional psychological stress is overwhelming & patients and their caregivers look for support (case manager/companion/partner) to help manage their disease holistically – starting from having clarity around their disease and treatment by having access to reliable and personalised information during their journey as well as having an integrated holistic care system , supporting them and their loved ones to navigate through the different aspects of their disease – medical, emotional, logistical, psychological, social, rights.

How can we support patients to navigate through the complexity of their disease and treatment ensuring they have validated holistic information about their disease journey & treatment and be empowered to  effectively manage their care 

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Peer-to-Peer Medical Exchange

As medical events pivoted from conference centres and meeting rooms to the virtual settings, learning opportunities continue. Lectures and presentations are translated to the new digital world, yet the ability to connect and network is relatively lost. Peer interaction is essential not only for information exchange but to share practical insights, allows consultation & in-person experience cross country and across borders leading to better disease management.

This peer-based learning/ consultation is highly valued amongst practising clinicians and was generally achieved when HCPs and KOLs met their peers in national & Intl conferences, group debates, advisory boards and even during quick corridor conversations. Attempting to replicate these in-person experiences into the digital space creates challenges and are not effective nor impactful as face-to-face engagements. 

How might we improve HCP medical exchange enabling physicians to easily communicate, consult, exchange opinions leveraging individual experts & centres of excellence knowledge, experiences, and practices?

How can we leverage the technological expertise to allow HCPs to connect with leading experts across countries to get advice / counselling for their cases?

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