European Partnership for Pandemic Preparedness (Phase 2)

What is this call about?

The topic funds the continuation of the European Partnership for Pandemic Preparedness, extending the existing BE READY NOW grant with new activities and, where relevant, new partners. The proposal is to be submitted by the coordinator of the existing consortium.

What does this call fund?

Scope

The topic funds the second phase of the co-funded European Partnership for Pandemic Preparedness. It adds activities, and where relevant partners, to the existing grant agreement of the partnership funded under topic HORIZON-HLTH-2024-DISEASE-12-01 (BE READY NOW). The proposal is submitted by the coordinator of that consortium and is presented mainly as revisions to the existing grant agreement.

Activities

• Coordinate and jointly fund transnational research, combined with integrative in-house activities, building on the strategic research and innovation agenda from the first phase.
• Cover the full range of preparedness research, from basic and pre-clinical to clinical, public health, social sciences and implementation research, with a One Health approach.
• Consolidate and develop an ever-warm clinical research network of observational and interventional studies that can respond rapidly to public health emergencies, in close coordination with the Clinical Trial Coordination Mechanism.
• Widen the engagement of countries not yet involved and attract private and philanthropic actors and innovators; the participation of start-ups and SMEs is encouraged.
• Build a health research data ecosystem aligned with the European Health Data Space and the European Open Science Cloud, supporting FAIR research data.

Expected outcomes

• An operational EU network of clinical research sites able to run large multi-country studies and switch to emergency response.
• Stronger coordination among EU and national bodies, researchers, policymakers and funders, closing research gaps.
• Research results used for evidence-based preparedness policies, and a stronger international role for the EU.

When is the deadline?

13 April 2027 (159 days)