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Nordic information and networking meeting: Prepare a successful proposal to IHI Call 12

Organised by: Vinnova, Business Finland, The research council of Norway (Norges forskningsråd)
Digitally Wed 10 Dec 2025 at 10:00-12:00

Welcome to a digital information session about the IHI partnership, where we will review upcoming funding opportunities and the requirements for applying.

This web page has been machine translated. If there are any uncertainties, please refer to the Swedish text.

IHI is a public-private partnership between the European Union and the European life science industries. The partnership's objective is to translate health research and innovation into tangible benefits for patients and society and ensure that Europe remains at the cutting edge of interdisciplinary, sustainable, patient-centric health research.

The European partnership Innovative Health Initiative (IHI), offers funding for innovation in health, ranging from prevention, diagnosis and treatment to disease management. Call 12 is an open call for bottom-up proposals that offers broad opportunities, within the scope of the partnership's research and innovation agenda.

At this information meeting, the IHI program office will provide information about the partnership's call 12, tips for your proposal, and networking opportunities to find partners. Below you will find a preliminary agenda.

This meeting is for you if you are interested in participating in international collaborative projects with strong industry collaboration in the area of life science and health.

The meeting will be attended by participants from Sweden, Norway and Finland.

The meeting will be on Teams and the presentations will be in English.

Preliminary agenda:

  • 10:00 Welcome
    Introductions: SRG delegates & today’s speakers 

  • 10:05 – 10:35 Presentation from the IHI office
    Introduction to IHI & Call 12: Nathalie Seigneuriet – Senior Scientific Officer, IHI
  • Q & A
  • 10:40 – 11:00 Presentation from the Trade Associations
    MedTech Europe: Jeroen Schuermans, Director Strategic Initiatives
    EFPIA: Nicolas Creff, Associate Director Research Partnerships
  • 11:00 – 11:45 Presentation from Nordic IHI participants sharing their experiences from ongoing IHI projects and the application process
    IHI project application and participation – Anne Hjelle, Research Manager at Stavanger University Hospital, Norway
    IHI project: AutoPix – Anders Nordell, Co-founder & CEO and Nathalie de Navarro, Program Manager at Collective Minds Radiology AB
  • 11:45 – 11:55 Q & A Session
  • Closing remarks

Networking possibility
In connection with the meeting, we offer to facilitate networking with the other attendees in the meeting who are interested in applying to call 12. It is voluntary to participate in the networking, and you agree or disagree to be added to the networking list when registering for the meeting. You can attend the meeting without participating in the networking.

About IHI:
IHI is a public-private partnership between the European Union and the European life science industries. The partnership's objective is to translate health research and innovation into tangible benefits for patients and society, and ensure that Europe remains at the cutting edge of interdisciplinary, sustainable, patient-centric health research.

Should you have any questions, please contact your respective contact person: 
NO: Margarethe Biong (mbi@forskningsradet.no), Gloria Traina (gloria.traina@hod.dep.no)
FI: Sampo Sammalisto (sampo.sammalisto@businessfinland.fi)
SE: Dobril-Philip Petkov (dobril.petkov@vinnova.se), Nadine Schweizer (nadine.schweizer@vinnova.se)

Sometimes we photograph or video record our activities. If you don't want to participate in photos or videos, please let us know when you arrive.

Questions?

Nadine Schweizer

National Contact Point (NCP)

+46 8 473 30 99

Dobril Petkov

Programme manager

+46 8 473 31 82

Last updated 2 December 2025