The European Commission will invest almost €16 billion in research and innovation in the next two years under Horizon 2020, the EU's research and innovation funding scheme, following a new work programme for 2016-17.
One of the goals of the programme is “Health, Demographic Change and Well-being' Societal Challenge” for the better health for all. Its main policy objectives are to improve health and well-being outcomes, to promote healthy and active ageing, to promote market growth, job creation, and the EU as a global leader in the health area. The overall strategic orientation for the “Health, Demographic Change and Well-being” Work Programme 2016-2017 is “promoting healthy ageing and personalised healthcare”. It does not focus on specific diseases, but cross-cutting themes.
It directly links with what has been successfully initiated in 2014-2015. The programme will implement several research priorities:
- personalised medicine,
- rare diseases,
- human biomonitoring,
- mental health,
- comparative effectiveness research,
- advanced technologies,
- e/mhealth, robotics,
- patient empowerment,
- active and healthy ageing,
- data security,
- big data, valorisation,
- anti-microbial resistance,
- infectious diseases including vaccines,
- maternal and child health
- and the silver economy.
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