The Innovative Health Initiative (IHI) announces future call topics

The Innovative Health Initiative (IHI), a public-private partnership between the European Union and the European life science industries, published information on future calls ahead of publication expected at the beginning of 2024. 

Lygature has ample experience with complex multi stakeholder partnerships, including IHI projects. Lygature acts as an independent partner to guide complex collaborations and provides much needed infrastructural components to create a consortium. Lygature is heavily involved in IDERHA, one of the first IHI projects that started, and is a partner in the recently launched PREDICTOM consortium, from IHI’s second round. 

Wim-Jan Koot explains: “Although IHI is a follow up of the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI), there are important differences to be aware of when you participate in an IHI call. Most organisations that have worked with IMI in the past have experience with two-stage calls. In these calls, public consortia (excluding EFPIA) first had to submit their proposal for review by IMI. The public consortium with the highest ranked proposal would then have to team up with pre-identified EFPIA partners (private parties) to form the final consortium. In the second stage, this consortium would then have the opportunity to submit the full proposal.”

“As you will see, a number of the current IHI call topics are single stage calls, where both public and private parties have to form a consortium right from the start and jointly submit a proposal. For single stage calls, time and timing is even more important. At Lygature we see many organisations struggle with the idea of collaborating in single stage calls, where also the proposal writing and submission have to be completed in a joint effort. We notice that IHI puts much more time pressure to finalize the negotiation on legal agreements. This means a thorough preparation is extra important.” 

“At Lygature, we notice that there will be quite some diversity in the expected upcoming IHI calls. Data-infrastructure, regulatory innovation, public-patient involvement and privacy & ethics are still recurring themes. It is no coincidence that these are exactly the topics where Lygature brings a lot of expertise in research consortia, as this expertise originates from our mission to accelerate the development of innovative solutions for better patient care.”

Are you interested to submit a proposal for one of the IHI calls and want to know how Lygature can support you? Have a look at our dedicated IHI page or contact Wim-Jan Koot for more information.