Public funding schemes within: Health technology

EIC Accelerator

The EIC Accelerator aims to create and promote co-investment by initiating support where funding from private investors is absent and/or insufficient. EIC Accelerator addresses start-ups and SMEs who have developed a radically new, highly risky idea underpinned by a business plan for rolling out marketable innovation solutions and with a potential to scale up.

Innobooster

Innobooster invests in promising ideas that contribute to solving society's challenges within green technology, health technology and job- and growth-creating innovation.

Does your company have a gross profit of min. 250,000 DKK in the most recent financial year or an external investment of min. 100,000 DKK over the last 3 years? Then you may be eligible to apply for support of between 50,000 and 5 mil. DKK for development and market maturation of your new product or service.

EIT Crisis Response Initiative

As part of the EU's collective efforts to tackle the COVID-19 crisis, the Euroean Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) has launched the 'EIT Crisis Response Initiative'.

Horizon Europe Culture, creativity and inclusive society

Horizon Europe Cluster 2, Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Society aims to meet EU goals and priorities on enhancing democratic governance and citizens participation, on the safeguarding and promotion of cultural heritage, and to respond to and shape multifaceted social, economic, technological and cultural transformations. Cluster 2 mobilises multidisciplinary expertise of European social sciences and humanities for understanding fundamental contemporary transformations of society, economy, politics, and culture. It aims to provide evidence-based policy options for a socially just and inclusive European green and digital transition and recovery.

Eurostars

With support from Eurostars companies can conduct international high-tech and knowledge intensive R&D projects with large market potential. Funding is offered for projects within all areas of technology. The coordinating entity must be an SME.

EUopSTART

EUopSTART offers grants for the preparatory work of Danish companies and research institutions that want to apply for EU funding. 

Innovation Fund Denmark

Innovation Fund Denmark invests in ambitious research and innovation projects that create new and concrete solutions to important societal challenges, and which create value for Denmark. The fund supports projects with a focus on research, development and in some cases demonstration. This could be product development, new processes or building and developing research competencies.

Innovative Medicines Initiative

Industrial Researcher

Innovation Fund Denmark’s Industrial Researcher Programme aims to bridge the gap between companies and universities. The programme provides support to private companies and public institutions to hire a PhD student or post.doc graduate to carry out business-oriented research projects in collaboration with a university.

Innofounder

Innofounder funds knowledgebased projects in the early stages where development of the technology, product, service and business model has not yet been completed. The Innofounder programme runs for 12 months and provides economic support in the form of monthly grants for up to three founders as well as a development grant of DKK 100.000. The acceleration programme provides mentoring, presentations by experts, pitch events and much more.

Horizon 2020 Health

Horizon Europe: Health

The Horizon Europe: Health Cluster supports research and innovation that contribute to Europe’s recovery and resilience from the global pandemic as well as projects aimed at the cancer care pathway. There are six specific areas of impact contained in the Health Cluster:

• Staying healthy in a rapidly changing society
• Living and working in a health-promoting environment
• Tackling diseases and reducing disease burden
• Ensuring access to innovative, sustainable and high-quality health care
• Unlocking the full potential of new tools, technologies and digital solutions for a healthy society
• Maintaining an innovative, sustainable and globally competitive health-related industry

Nordic Innovation

Nordic Innovation was established in order to help make Nordic businesses competitive and innovative. Nordic Innovations aims to generate increased value creation through cross-border co-operation. The goal to create partnerships between leading Nordic public and private sector institutions in the fields of trade and innovation.

Fast Track to Innovation

Fast Track to Innovation (FTI) aims to reduce the time from idea to market by supporting projects undertaking innovation from the demonstration stage through to market uptake. FTI is the only fully bottom-up measure in Horizon 2020 promoting close-to-market innovation activities and open to all types of participants. Industry participation is required. 

Horizon Europe: Digital, Industry and Space

The Horizon Europe: Digital, Industry and Space Cluster supports research and innovation that contribute to EU maintaining a strong industrial and technology presence in key parts of digital and other supply chains, in industrial ecosystems while safeguarding its ability to access and operate safely in space. There are six specific areas of impact contained in this Horizon Europe Cluster 4:

• Climate-neutral, circular, and digitised production
• Increased autonomy in key strategic value chains for resilient industry
• World leading data and computing technologies
• Digital and emerging technologies for competitiveness and fit for the Green Deal
• Open strategic autonomy in developing, deploying and using global space-based infrastructures, services applications and data
• A human-centred and ethical development of digital and industrial technologies.