1. Embedding
Humanities
in Horizon 2020
Health
Patricia Clarke
Senior Policy Analyst/ National Delegate
Health Research Board

2. What is Horizon 2020
The EU’s 2014-20 programme
for research & innovation
A core part of Europe 2020, Innovation
Union &
European Research Area
− Responding to the economic crisis to invest in future jobs
and growth
− Addressing people’s concerns about their livelihoods,
safety and environment
− Strengthening the EU’s global position in research,
innovation and technology
http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020

3. Building on experience
FP7 'Health' – the largest
multi-national fund…
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…for collaborative research,
global consortia, and publicprivate co-operation
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…to fund excellent applied health
and ageing research and
innovation
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…to bring together leading
players from Europe and across
the globe
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…to tackle key European and
global health challenges

4. Horizon 2020 - Societal Challenge 1
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Translating science to benefit citizens
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Improve health outcomes
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Support a competitive health & care
sector
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Test and demonstrate new health &
care models, approaches and tools
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Promote healthy and active ageing
Do also look elsewhere! EU support of health related
research & innovation is not limited to Societal Challenge 1

5. H2020 Health Work Programme 2014/15
Call 'personalising health and care'
34 topics (15 in 2014, 17 in 2015, 2 open in both years)
Call for 'co-ordination activities'
16 topics (10 in 2014, 6 in 2015)
€ 1,21
billion

6. Building Strong Foundations
• Wellbeing - improving Quality of Life
• Behaviour Change – understanding the ways in which
individuals make choices and decisions
• Ethics - adopting new technologies
• Globalisation – understanding the political, economic,
cultural and technological impacts
• Underpinning policy development – e.g. concepts of
innovation, social interactions
• Opportunities for integrative thinking and imagination,
for creativity and discovery, and for good citizenship.

7. Call ‘Personalising Health and Care’
Seven Focus Areas
1. Understanding health, ageing & disease
2. Effective health promotion, disease prevention,
preparedness and screening
3. Improving diagnosis
4. Innovative treatments and technologies
5. Advancing active and healthy ageing
6. Integrated, sustainable, citizen-centred care
7. Improving health information, data exploitation and
providing an evidence base for health policies and
regulation

8. Specific Health Topics 2014
PHC 1 – 2014: Understanding health, Population level, extending to health
ageing and disease: determinants,
promotion with emphasis on healthy
risk factors and pathways
ageing.
PHC 5 – 2014: Health promotion and
disease prevention: translating
‘omics’ into stratified approaches
inclusive of lifestyle factors
PHC 6 – 2014: Evaluating existing
screening and prevention
programmes
Need to be assessed for effective
delivery . Provide evidence for
policymakers
PHC 17 – 2014: Comparing the
effectiveness of existing healthcare
interventions in the elderly
Includes supporting best practice
guidelines

9. Specific Health Topics 2014
PHC 19 – 2014: Advancing active
and healthy ageing with ICT: Service
robotics within assisted living
environments
Longer-term ,cost effectiveness, social
exclusion. Non-technical
Measured impacts –encourage user
participation, 3600around the patient –
carers, keeping people at home.
PHC 23 – 2014: Developing and
comparing new models for safe and
efficient, prevention oriented health
and care systems:
Practical application – not theoretical.
Identify more advantageous health care
interventions that could be
implemented.
PHC 26 – 2014: Self-management of Health apps for disease management
health and disease: citizen
within health care itself. Behavioural
engagement and mHealth
science and also deals with service,
education
PHC 31 – 2014: Foresight for health
policy development and regulation
Mainly indicators on healthcare but also
sustainability of healthcare system

10. Specific Health Topics 2015
PHC 4 – 2015: Health
promotion and disease
prevention: improved intersector co-operation for
environment and health based
interventions
Impact on series of public health
programmes and not just on health systems
PHC 21 – 2015: Advancing
active and healthy ageing with
ICT: Early risk detection and
intervention
Reliably link behavioural changes to impact .
Efficiency gains - improve QoL patients and
carers, efficiency in healthcare systems,
competitiveness and efficiency gains for
market .
Ethics .
PHC 22 – 2015: Promoting
mental wellbeing in the ageing
population

11. Specific Health Topics 2015
PHC 24 – 2015: Piloting
Larger pilots, new models of care in
personalised medicine in health conjunction with health authorities.
and care systems
Health economics.
Show how it can be implemented.
PHC 25 – 2015: Advanced ICT
systems and services for
Integrated Care
PHC 27 – 2015: Selfmanagement of health and
disease and patient
empowerment supported by
ICT
Design new care pathways,
Expected impact –reduce admissions, bed
stays etc., indicate more coordination
between specialities, and bring strong
evidence for health care outcomes

12. Embed by learning nationally:
HRB and interdisciplinary health care
Review of Population Health and Health Services
Interdisciplinary
Research in Ireland
Capacity
1. Lack of capacity
Enhancement
2. Attract hidden capacity to address
Awards (ICE)
complex questions
programme
3. Support and funding
Structured
Population and
Health-services
Research
Education
(SPHeRE)
Research
Leaders
Awards
(RLA)

13. Representation within the H2020 System

14. Developing Creative Connections
http://www.healthcompetence.eu/
http://www.cost.eu/
http://www.fitforhealth.eu/
http://ec.europa.eu/research/

15. Thank you
Patricia Clarke, pclarke@hrb.ie
www.h2020.ie