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HaDEA has published the Prior Information Notice HADEA/2025/OP/0052 - PIN - Strengthening national implementation of organ transplant practices, in particular through cooperation between national authorities and professional sector associations.

On World Mental Health Day, we spotlight some examples of EU-funded health research projects that aim at improving mental and brain health through personalised and data-driven approaches. 

On World Mental Health Day, we look at the European Commission’s swift action to address the mental health needs of Ukrainian people displaced by Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.  

The Brain Innovation Days 2025 are taking place on 15-16 October in Brussels. This fifth edition will welcome two projects funded under the Horizon Europe ‘Health’ programme and managed by HaDEA that are contributing to improving the mental health and wellbeing of EU citizens.

The European Commission has made the first amendment to the Digital Europe (DIGITAL) Work Programme 2025-2027 ensuring EU resources continue to support the Commission’s ambitions on developing and deploying critical technologies in Europe.

World Space Week, held annually from 4 to 10 October, is an international celebration of space science and technology. This year, the chosen theme is “Living in Space.” Discover three HaDEA-managed projects that are contributing to this goal.

Public Open Data is a cornerstone of Europe’s digital transformation. By providing harmonised and facilitated access to datasets created and managed by public bodies, open data enables innovation, transparency, and participation across sectors. Discover HaDEA-managed projects in this sector.

HaDEA organised a webinar on REPA (reporting and payment) for beneficiaries, and the presentations are now available.

The call HORIZON-CL4-2025-02 (SPACE-HADEA), part of Horizon Europe Cluster 4: Digital, Industry and Space (Destination 5), closed on 25 September 2025. A total of 93 proposals have been submitted.

26 September is annually observed as World Environmental Health Day, raising awareness of the impact of environmental hazards on human health. Two EU-funded project clusters, EHEN and CUSP, are at the forefront of EU research on the effects of environmental exposures on our bodies.

This year’s edition of World Tourism Day (27 September) highlights sustainability as the foundation of tourism development and transformation. Digitalisation plays a critical role in preserving cultural sites and assets, promoting sustainable practices, and enhancing travellers’ experience.

During its presidency of the Council of the European Union from 1 July to 31 December 2025, Denmark has made the protection of children and young people online one of its priorities.

HaDEA has published new open calls for proposals covering nine topics outlined in the 2025 EU4Health Work Programme and based on DG SANTE policy priorities.

ESA’s Themis reusable rocket demonstrator is ready at Esrange. Developed by ArianeGroup under the HaDEA-managed SALTO project, it enters final tests. A HaDEA visit to the site highlighted Europe’s push for innovation and autonomy in space transportation.

HaDEA and the European Commission's Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety (SANTE) have prepared video guidelines for the EU4Health call for tenders HADEA/2025/OP/0045 - Single Framework contract for supporting joint work of Member States on Substances of Human Origins (SoHO)

HaDEA, through the Digital Europe Programme, has funded several initiatives that contribute to the digitisation and preservation of the European Architecture heritage. Learn more about three of these projects.

HaDEA has published the call for tenders HADEA/2025/OP/0043 - Support the implementation of the new Substances of Human Origin (SoHO) Regulation 1938/2024, including dissemination and training of SoHO professionals to comply with the new technical and regulatory requirements.

On the occasion of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, we put the spotlight on how funding available under the EU4Health programme is helping to improve long-term follow-up care and also psychosocial support to ensure optimal quality of life of young people affected by cancer.

The Health and Digital Executive Agency has completed two calls under the Digital Europe Programme: European Digital Innovation Hubs - Associated countries (EDIHs with reinforced AI focus) and Accelerating the Best Use of Technologies. The two calls have received a total of 65 proposals.

The European Hydrogen Week takes place in Brussels from 29 September to 3 October 2025, displaying the forefront of hydrogen-related innovations. Discover three Horizon Europe projects managed by HaDEA that focus on advanced materials for hydrogen production and use.

7 September is the International Day of Police Cooperation. Discover HaDEA-managed projects funded under the Digital Europe Programme that contribute to building a safer online environment.

At the occasion of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, observed annually in September, HaDEA has reached out to the Horizon Europe project MONALISA, funded under the EU Cancer Mission.

HaDEA has published open calls for proposals on crisis preparedness under the 2025 EU4Health Work Programme.

The European Research & Innovation (R&I) Days 2025 will welcome three projects managed by HaDEA that are advancing research in the fields of health and the digital and green transitions.

On International Youth Day, HaDEA sheds light on a selection of EU4Health and Horizon projects that are supporting the health of children and young people, specifically in the areas of mental health and obesity.  

The Commission has launched a targeted consultation on the 2026 EU4Health Annual Work Programme.

HaDEA has published the call for tenders HADEA/2025/OP/0036 – Harmonising the implementation of EU legal requirements in the fields of the Official Controls Regulation, Border Controls, and the use of Trade Control and Expert System (TRACES) through the 'Better Training for Safer Food' Initiative.

HaDEA has published the call for tenders HADEA/2025/OP/0045- Single Framework contract for supporting joint work of Member States in the field of Substances of Human Origin.

On the occasion of World Lung Cancer Day, HaDEA interviewed Dr. Anna Kerpel-Fronius and Prof. Joanna Chorostowska-Wynimko, co-scientific coordinators of the EU-funded SOLACE project.

HaDEA has published the EU4Health call for tenders HADEA/2025/OP/0034 - Administrative and secretarial support for the implementation of initiatives on digital health and the European Health Data Space (EHDS).

The European Commission and the Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have launched today the Partnership to Accelerate Mpox Testing and Sequencing in Africa (PAMTA) initiative.

HaDEA has published the Prior Information Notice HADEA/2025/OP/0043 - PIN - Support the implementation of the new Substances of Human Origin (SoHO) Regulation 1938/2024, including dissemination and training of SoHO professionals to comply with the new technical and regulatory requirements.

The 2025 Joint EU UK Summer School on Optical Interconnect for AI, Hyperscale, Space and Quantum (St Andrews Scotland, July 2025) was an inspiring event that facilitated knowledge exchange to prototype and commercialise photonic integrated circuits (PICs),

Discover EU-funded projects managed by HaDEA dedicated to understanding, preventing and addressing brain disorders, as well as identifying the multiple factors influencing them, with the objective of improving the quality of life of citizens living with neurological conditions. 

HaDEA has recently signed 11 grant agreements supporting the activities of the European Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA) in the area of crisis preparedness, for a total EU contribution of €158 million under the EU4Health programme.

The 2025 International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovation (ICE2025) was an inspiring event, where conference participants presented and discussed the latest trends in digital transformation.

HaDEA has published a Prior Information Notice (PIN) for a call for tenders to be funded under the Better Training for Safer Food initiative (BTSF) of the European Union.

Last month, HaDEA signed three new grant agreements to support robust, safe and reliable AI solutions to help create human-centric AI. The new projects ROBUSTIFAI, AIXPERT, and TRUMAN are funded under the Horizon Europe Cluster 4: Digital, Industry and Space.

15 July 2025 marks the 10th anniversary of World Youth Skills Day (WYSD), a global milestone celebrating the importance of equipping young people with the skills they need to shape inclusive and sustainable societies. Discover HaDEA's contribution to this topic.

Mauve marks a transformative milestone in European space science as the continent’s first dedicated satellite mission to study stellar flares and their influence on the habitability of exoplanets.

The EU’s digital strategy (A Europe fit for the digital age - European Commission) has the ambition to foster Europe’s “Digital Decade” with strengthening its digital sovereignty and set global standards for digital data, technology, and infrastructure.

The 2025 Work Programme establishes two calls under the Industry pillar, across 4 different destinations: HORIZON-CL4-2025-01 (€494 million, 28 topics, single stage) and HORIZON-CL4-2025-05-two-stage (€161 million, 6 topics, two-stage).

HaDEA has signed new framework contracts under the EU4Health programme to enhance the monitoring of pathogens and pollutants in wastewater, a crucial step in establishing an early warning system for future pandemics.

On 16–17 June 2025, a HaDEA delegation visited Tallinn, Estonia, for a series of meetings focused on EU funding opportunities in the fields of Health and Digital.

The DS4Skills project, co-funded by the European Commission and coordinated by DIGITALEUROPE, was officially launched in January 2025, uniting 22 partners.

The Sustainable products sector of unit B3 in HaDEA has organised a laser manufacturing workshop on 13 June, where projects were showcased from various calls.

The European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA) has signed new multiple framework contracts under the EU4Health programme to strengthen the EU’s health emergency preparedness and response mechanisms.

On 5th June 2025, representatives from the European Commission executive agency HaDEA, were granted access to the ArianeGroup’s state-of-the-art premises in Les Mureaux, France.

The network of Safer Internet Centres (SICs), co-funded under the Digital Europe Programme, aims to raise awareness about online safety issues and to mitigate the risks children and young people are exposed to. Discover the "Safer Internet" factsheet.

Discover four EU-funded projects (AI4CI, PANORAIMA, RISER, and MANOLO) that are focusing on applying AI to connected industries, fostering the collaboration among educational institutions and industry, promoting energy-efficient cloud architecture, and ensuring compliance with AI regulation.

Several projects in the domain of photonics funded by the Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe Programmes, and managed by HaDEA, are actively participating in the conference and trade fair.

On 18 June 2025, HaDEA organised a full-day event dedicated to empowering Lithuanian researchers, innovators, business representatives, enterpreneurs and other experts from various institutions and organisations to succeed in EU funding programmes.

The presentation for the "EU funding for digital technologies" workshop, organised by HaDEA at Viva Technology 2025, is now available.

On 11 June 2025, HaDEA organised a webinar on grant management, providing the European Digital Innovation Hubs with useful information and rules on operational, financial, and legal aspects.

With a total budget of €536.1 million, the Horizon Europe Cluster 4 Digital call 2025 covers 28 topics across 4 different destinations. It offers exciting funding opportunities in a broad range of areas.

The EU Industry Days 2025, Europe’s flagship annual event focusing on key industrial policy discussions, are set to take place on 5 and 6 June in Rzeszów, Poland. Discover six HaDEA-managed projects that will be featured in the event.

During this year’s European Week Against Cancer, discover EU-funded projects and initiatives that are working to provide cancer patients with the highest quality of life possible.

Discover EU-funded projects that are contributing to ensuring that cancer patients across the EU have the same access to high quality care, diagnosis and treatment, regardless of where they live.

With a total budget of €139 million, the Horizon Europe EU space research call 2025 offers a variety of exciting collaboration opportunities for the space community.

The European Week Against Cancer takes place between 25 and 31 May. Explore a selection of EU-funded projects, some of which have concluded since last year’s European Week Against Cancer. Managed by HaDEA, these projects aim to boost cancer prevention efforts across the EU.

The materials from the session are now available.

The World ICT Day, which took place on 17 May, raises awareness on the digital divide and the need to address it by promoting digital skills, challenging gender stereotypes, and ensuring safety in the digital realm.

This year, four HaDEA projects participate in the panel discussion "MLOps, Continuous Learning, and Resource Management in the Edge-Cloud Continuum" during DataWeek: learn more about them and about their progress.

During European Testing Week, take a look at EU-funded projects managed by HaDEA that are working to improve testing in the EU.

HaDEA has published the 2025 calls for proposals under Horizon Europe 'Health'.

The Horizon Europe Info Days on Cluster 4 – Digital, Industry and Space took place online on 13 and 14 May 2025. The recordings of the sessions are now available.

HaDEA has published a number of Horizon Europe calls for proposals on cancer research to support the EU Mission on Cancer.

HaDEA has published the call for tenders HADEA/2025/OP/0018 - Enhancing Animal Health and Welfare in EU Member States and Candidate Countries: Harmonising EU Legal Frameworks through the 'Better Training for Safer Food' Initiative.

This European Mental Health Week, discover a selection of Horizon Europe and EU4Health projects that are working towards improving mental health.

On Wednesday 14 May 2025, HaDEA has organised a virtual info session on the call DIGITAL-2025-BESTUSE-08: Accelerating the Best Use of Technologies, launched under the Digital Europe Programme. The materials from the session are now available.

The Annual Work Programme 2025 for Horizon Europe has just been adopted.

To evaluate project proposals submitted under the upcoming Horizon Europe Digital Research calls, HaDEA is looking for experts.

On International Nurses Day, discover the EU4Health projects managed by HaDEA that contribute to empowering nurses through education and training. 

On the occasion of World Ovarian Cancer Day, HaDEA interviewed Sampsa Hautaniemi and Ann-Christin Ostwaldt from the DECIDER project. DECIDER is a Horizon Europe research and innovation project that is working on overcoming chemotherapy resistance in high-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSC).

Meet the Horizon Europe projects from OBEClust that will participate in ECO 2025

On 30 April 2025, HaDEA organised a virtual info session on the Call DIGITAL-2025-EDIH-AC-08: European Digital Innovation Hubs - Associated countries (EDIHs with reinforced AI focus), launched under the Digital Europe Programme. The materials from the session are now available.

The European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA) and the Health Emergency Preparedness and Response (HERA) have prepared video guidelines for the EU4Health call for tenders to set up Framework Contracts to speed up the development of next-generation influenza vaccines.

The Digital Europe Programme (DEP) and previously the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF Telecom) programme have funded actions aimed at supporting independent regional hubs for analysis of digital media ecosystems, including the impact of AI in disinformation.

HaDEA manages many EU-funded projects and initiatives related to immunisation and vaccines, as well as aimed at overcoming vaccine hesitancy, promoting good vaccination practices and improving vaccine uptake.

Each year, Girls in ICT Day - celebrated on the fourth Thursday of April - encourages young women and girls to explore careers in STEM. To mark the occasion, HADEA is spotlighting three EU-funded projects that are actively breaking down barriers and empowering girls in tech.

HaDEA has published the Prior Information Notice HADEA/2025/OP/0012-PIN - Enhancing Animal Health and Welfare in EU Member States and Candidate Countries: Harmonising EU Legal Frameworks through the 'Better Training for Safer Food' Initiative.

HaDEA is looking for experts to evaluate project proposals submitted under the upcoming Horizon Europe EU Space Research call 2025 (HORIZON-CL4-2025-02).

HaDEA has signed two new framework contracts under the EU4Health programme in the areas of pharmaceutical legislation and data-driven policy for medical products, as well as healthcare provision for Adolescent and Young Adults (AYA) cancer patients.

The Commission has opened four new calls worth €140 million under the Digital Europe Programme (DIGITAL) to advance the roll out of Artificial Intelligence (AI), promote advanced digital skills, expand the network of European Digital Innovation Hubs (EDIHs) and fight disinformation.

HaDEA and HERA have recorded an info session for the EU4Health call for tenders to develop point-of-care diagnostic medical devices for antimicrobial susceptibility testing.

HaDEA is actively contributing to the AI revolution by funding AI-related projects. Today, HaDEA manages more than 900 projects that either develop or apply AI tools. These projects range widely, from applying AI to improve healthcare diagnostics, to boosting manufacturing efficiency.

To mark World Parkinson’s Day, HaDEA interviewed Prof. Leontios Hadjileontiadis, coordinator of AI-PROGNOSIS, a Horizon Europe research and innovation project aiming to advance Parkinson’s disease diagnosis and care via novel predictive models combined with digital biomarkers from everyday devices.

During May and June 2025, several key EU space events are taking place. Learn more and discover all the opportunities.

The six EU Executive Agencies — REA, CINEA, HADEA, ERCEA, EISMEA, and EACEA — play a key role in implementing major EU-funded programmes. Every three years, these agencies undergo a thorough evaluation to ensure they are providing the best services to you.

On 26 March HaDEA organised a webinar on REporting and PAyment (REPA), describing how to prepare and present both technical and financial documentation.

World Health Day, marked each year on 7 April, puts global health priorities in focus. By funding smart, AI-driven solutions, the EU is helping build a more accessible, efficient, and equitable healthcare system for all.

HaDEA manages EU-funded projects under the programmes EU4Health, Horizon Europe and Horizon2020 that are committed to improving the health of mothers and babies. 

The Health and Digital Executive Agency has completed its 4th CEF-Digital call for proposals with its 1st call for the European Quantum Communication Infrastructure (EuroQCI), with 24 proposals submitted by the 27 March 2025 deadline.

HaDEA manages projects and initiatives under the EU4Health, Horizon Europe and Digital Europe programmes to support the implementation of the EHDS. 

The Commission will allocate €1.3 billion for the deployment of critical technologies that are strategically important for the future of Europe and the continent's tech sovereignty through the Digital Europe Programme (DIGITAL) work programme for 2025 to 2027 adopted today.

HaDEA has published the EU4Health call for tenders HADEA/2025/CPN/0008 - Multiple sourcing Framework Contracts to speed up the development of and access to innovative medical countermeasures - Next-Generation Influenza Vaccines.

Last week the team of the official portal for European data delivered the EU Open Data Days 2025, a two day conference that brings together data enthusiasts, policymakers, researchers, and industry leaders to discuss and showcase the power of open data. Discover HaDEA-managed projects in this field.

HaDEA has published the EU4Health call for tenders HADEA/2025/OP/0012 - Multiple framework contracts in cascade for legal support services for the compliance assessment of national transposing measures in the health and food safety areas in the context of the enlargement.

PHOTORAMA is an EU-funded project focused on creating a circular model for the photovoltaic (PV) industry. By developing advanced recycling technologies, it aims to recover critical materials from end-of-life solar panels and bridge the gap between manufacturing and recycling.