The European University Hospital Alliance (EUHA) launches the 2025 Seed Funding Initiative, designed to support EUHA colleagues to form consortia and apply for project funding.
In today’s rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, university hospitals are at the forefront of innovation, developing groundbreaking solutions to improve patient care. However, successfully implementing these innovations presents significant challenges. Translating scientific findings into practice often requires regulatory changes, new training programs, curriculum updates, or extensive preparation over several years. While EU and other funding programs exist to address these challenges, navigating them can be challenging—especially for professionals whose primary focus is not research.
To bridge this gap, the EUHA Research Leads Network created the Seed Funding Initiative to support colleagues in forming consortia and securing project funding that advances EUHA’s shared strategic objectives.
Focusing on Our Unique Impact
To demonstrate the unique impact of collaboration among Europe’s leading university hospitals, EUHA and its members are committed to providing initial funds to support colleagues in developing grant proposals and helping turn innovative ideas into actionable projects. Excellent examples of the impact of EUHA collaboration are EUCARE, H2O and JOIN4ATMP, funded projects driven by a EUHA Working Group or Network.
The JOIN4ATMP project aims to accelerate and de-risk European ATMP development and ensure widespread access to ATMPs, through the mapping of obstacles to such development, the audit of real-world-based solutions and the definition of new paths forward.
EUCARE aims to establish a groundbreaking fellowship program for critical care nurses in Europe, underscoring their significant role in shaping the future of healthcare.
The Health Outcomes Observatory project (H2O) will create an unprecedented, standardised data governance and infrastructure across Europe to incorporate patients’ experiences and preferences in decisions affecting their individual health care and those of the entire patient community.
Facilitating Applications
The 2025 Seed Funding Initiative is meant to encourage our staff to work together and participate in strategic projects aligned with the overall objectives of our alliance. This extends to projects that focus on development and implementation of innovative healthcare concepts, harmonization of standards, education, training, EU policies, and innovation regulation. Additionally, the initiative can support projects addressing policy issues discussed in EUHA Networks (NWs) or Working Groups (WGs) or are of mutual interest to EUHA.
What makes this initiative unique is that the EUHA Office and the EU Research Strategy and Policy Office of Ospedale San Raffaele can support EUHA colleagues to identify specific calls of interest. A guide for 2025 is available already, but tailored support can also be made available.
As mentioned by Roberto Buccione (Ospedale San Raffaele), coordinator of the Research Leads Network,
The Seed Funding Initiative is designed to foster collaboration and knowledge exchange on EUHA strategic innovation themes among member institutions. By providing financial support to enable discussion on research projects at a very early stage it will also increase our ability to leverage new funding opportunities. Ultimately, we hope it will strengthen the EUHA research ecosystem and enhance its visibility and impact at the European level.
Interested in Applying?
For more information, visit: EUHA Seed Funding 2025