The results of the 2025 and 2026 calls under Cluster 1: Health, within Pillar II “Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness” of the Horizon Europe Programme, have been announced.
Under the 2025 single-stage calls, 13 highly competitive call topics attracted 714 proposals involving 9,917 organizations, and 50 projects were selected for funding. Within this context, 3 projects involving 3 organizations from Türkiye have been funded, with a total contribution amounting to EUR 1,465,540.00. Further information on the call results is available via this link.
Under the 2025 two-stage calls, 5 highly competitive call topics attracted 659 proposals involving 7,885 organizations, and 25 projects were selected for funding. Within this context, 2 projects involving 6 organizations from Türkiye, including 1 as coordinator, have been funded, with a total contribution amounting to EUR 2,990,647.74.
Under the 2026 calls, 18 highly competitive call topics attracted 979 proposals involving 12,935 organizations, and 58 projects were selected for funding. Within this context, 2 projects involving 2 organizations from Türkiye have been funded, with a total contribution amounting to EUR 404,704.50.
Thus, under the Cluster 1: Health 2025 and 2026 calls, a total of 7 projects involving 11 organizations from Türkiye, including 1 as coordinator, have been awarded a total of EUR 4,860,892.24 in funding by the European Commission.
Details of the projects funded under the 2025 two-stage and 2026 calls are provided below:
2025 Two-Stage Calls
CyberWell-ID: A Mobile App to Prevent Cyberbullying and Improve Well-Being of Adolescents with Intellectual Disabilities and Their Families
The project funded under the call topic “HORIZON-HLTH-2025-03-STAYHLTH-01-two-stage: Improving the quality of life of persons with intellectual disabilities and their families” includes 17 partners. The project aims to develop and validate the clinical effectiveness of a cognitively accessible, AI-supported, multilingual and human-centred digital intervention to reduce the negative impacts of cyberbullying on the mental health, autonomy and quality of life of adolescents with intellectual disabilities, while also alleviating the burden on families arising from caregiving responsibilities.
Siirt University participates in the project as the coordinator, while Hacettepe University, Pixelized Studio Bilişim Yazılım Danışmanlık ve Pazarlama Ticaret A.Ş., Halise Arslan Special Education Vocational School, and Paylaşımcı Toplum Association participate as project partners.
CLARITY-PD: Causal Links of Air Pollution, Pesticides, and Heavy Metals in Parkinson’s Disease: Levereging the Exposome Framework, Biomarker Discovery, AI-Driven Risk Models, and Sensor-Based Monitoring
The project funded under the call topic “HORIZON-HLTH-2025-03-ENVHLTH-01-two-stage: The impact of pollution on the development and progression of brain diseases and disorders” includes 20 partners. The project aims to investigate the effects of exposure to air pollution, pesticides and heavy metals on the development and progression of Parkinson’s disease; identify causal relationships and risk profiles; and translate the resulting evidence into decision-support tools and policy recommendations for disease prevention.
Emoda Yazılım Danışmanlık San. Tic. Ltd. Şti. participates in the project as a partner.
2026 Calls
UNSOLVED-CARDS: UNderstanding Sex-specific Omic patterns Leading to CARDiovascular disease risk
The project funded under the call topic “HORIZON-HLTH-2026-01-DISEASE-11: Understanding of sex and/or gender-specific mechanisms of cardiovascular diseases: determinants, risk factors and pathways” includes 11 partners. The project aims to investigate sex-specific disease mechanisms in coronary artery disease, ischemic stroke and abdominal aortic aneurysm at the genomic, epigenomic and proteomic levels, and, based on the resulting evidence, to develop sex-specific disease prediction models and novel diagnostic tools, as well as identify new therapeutic targets for cardiovascular diseases.
Istanbul Technical University participates in the project as a partner.
SCALE-CVD: Strategic and Capacity Agenda to Lead and Enable CVD care innovation across Europe
The project funded under the call topic “HORIZON-HLTH-2026-01-DISEASE-15: Scaling up innovation in cardiovascular health” includes 11 partners. The project aims to support the broader and more equitable implementation of proven innovative solutions in cardiovascular disease prevention, early detection and digital health across European health systems by identifying existing innovations, stakeholders and system-level barriers, defining priority actions, and translating them into a Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda and an implementation roadmap.
Koç University participates in the project as a partner.
As the National Contact Points for Cluster 1: Health working at the Horizon Europe Programme Türkiye National Coordination Office within the TÜBİTAK EU Framework Programmes Directorate, we congratulate our institutions and wish them continued success.