UNITE Helpdesk
What is UNITE?
Mission
- Building a borderless European digital health innovation ecosystem
- Addressing challenges posed by demographic shifts and ageing populations
- Transforming healthcare through digital deep-tech innovation
UNITE Innovation Challenges
- Deep-tech innovation to secure equal health for the entire population
- Digital solutions advancing more personalised and human-centric remote care
- Advancing European Health Data Spaces
- Digital innovation to battle the health workforce crisis
UNITE Regions
UNITE Partners
Who can benefit from UNITE?
The following organisations from private and public sectors, academia, and civil society are encouraged to participate:
- Startups, scaleups, SMEs, large companies, investors.
- Universities, research institutions, innovation centres, incubators, accelerators.
- Hospitals, clinics, healthcare service providers.
- Patient and health associations, NGOs, public authorities.
Opportunities
Open calls
UNITE Open Calls provide financial support for collaborative digital health projects that address the core UNITE challenges, implemented across the UNITE regions by cross-regional consortia, with up to €1 million per project. Additionally, offers a sub-set A2F and growth services to those selected for our programmes.
Agile Piloting
UNITE Agile Piloting provides small-scale financial support for short-term, real-world digital health pilots addressing the UNITE innovation challenges, implemented in the UNITE regions, with individual pilot budgets ranging from €3,000 to €12,500.
Matchmaking events
The UNITE initiative provides a matchmaking platform designed to enable stakeholders from participating regions to identify and connect with relevant partners across other UNITE geographies, fostering interregional collaboration through targeted matchmaking aligned with shared challenges and opportunities in the digital health sector. Stakeholders can also explore upcoming matchmaking events to engage directly with potential partners.
Value chain building
UNITE consortium members are dedicated to provide the opportunity of matching the right organizations and create meaningfull digital health value chains across the UNITE regions. Join our community to support your matchmaking.
Training courses
Project UNITE provides a total of eight training courses through the EIT Digital Professional School, designed to empower stakeholders within the digital health innovation ecosystem. The curriculum includes two common online courses available to all participants: "State-of-the-Art in Innovation in Digital Health and Wellbeing," which targets a wide range of actors from innovators to hospital personnel, and "Digital Health Ecosystem Orchestration," aimed at those responsible for regional collaboration. These are complemented by six specialized courses—one for each Ecosystem Working Group (EWG)—that are collaboratively planned with innovation coaches and activists to address specific regional and thematic needs. All courses follow a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) approach and available at: https://eit.icarus.education/unite/.
Service catalogue
Access the Service catalogue here: https://unitedigihealth.eu/service-catalogue
Project materials
How to participate?
Visit the UNITE Cloud to apply for our programmes:
