Updated on 14 January 2026
SSH to transform European health in a human & sustainable way.
Research Valorisation Manager at IMEC-SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Brussels, Belgium
About
Transforming European health through digital and AI innovation faces three critical challenges: trust, meaningful human oversight, and contextual alignment. Without these, solutions risk bias, low adoption, and governance gaps.
As a research centre, SMIT (VUB) we tackles these challenges with SSH expertise embedded in health technology development. For trust, we design frameworks for transparency, fairness, bias mitigation, safety, and GDPR-compliant data flows, supported by participatory co-design. For human oversight, we develop control mechanisms, accountability frameworks, and workflow integration to ensure clinician override and governance in care pathways. For context, we apply implementation science to achieve scalability, equity, and ecosystem fit (EHDS, EOSC), while addressing climate resilience and sustainability.
Our interdisciplinary team delivers actionable methodologies for trustworthy AI, explainable clinical decision support, and scalable interventions that reduce health inequalities.
This approach aligns with Horizon Europe Cluster 1 objectives and supports calls such as:
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HORIZON-HLTH-2026-01-STAYHLTH-02: Behavioral interventions as primary prevention for NCDs among young people
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HORIZON-HLTH-2026-01-DISEASE-02: Digital tech & mental health
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HORIZON-HLTH-2026-01-DISEASE-09: Multisectoral NCD approaches
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HORIZON-HLTH-2026-01-ENVHLTH-01: Climate change impacts
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HORIZON-HLTH-2026-01-ENVHLTH-04: Climate-resilient healthcare
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HORIZON-HLTH-2026-01-CARE-03: Low-value care
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HORIZON-HLTH-2026-01-TOOL-03: Integrating NA
Topic
- DESTINATION 1: HORIZON-HLTH-2026-01-STAYHLTH-02: Behavioural interventions as primary prevention for Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) among young people
- DESTINATION 2: HORIZON-HLTH-2026-01-ENVHLTH-01: Towards a better understanding and anticipation of the impacts of climate change on health
- DESTINATION 2: HORIZON-HLTH-2026-01-ENVHLTH-04: Towards climate resilient, prepared and carbon neutral populations and healthcare systems
- DESTINATION 3: HORIZON-HLTH-2026-01-DISEASE-02: Innovative interventions to prevent the harmful effects of using digital technologies on the mental health of children and young adults
- DESTINATION 3: HORIZON-HLTH-2026-01-DISEASE-03: Advancing research on the prevention, diagnosis, and management of post-infection long-term conditions
- DESTINATION 3: HORIZON-HLTH-2026-01-DISEASE-09: Multisectoral approach to tackle chronic non-communicable diseases: implementation research maximising collaboration and coordination with sectors and in settings beyond the healthcare system (GACD)
- DESTINATION 4: HORIZON-HLTH-2026-01-CARE-03: Identifying and addressing low-value care in health and care systems
- DESTINATION 5: HORIZON-HLTH-2026-01-TOOL-03: Integrating New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) to advance biomedical research and regulatory testing
Type
- Partner seeks Consortium/Coordinator
Organisation
Similar opportunities
Project cooperation
Looking for partnerships in health data & AI and sustainable healthcare
- Partner seeks Consortium/Coordinator
- DESTINATION 2: HORIZON-HLTH-2026-01-ENVHLTH-05: Support for a multilateral initiative on climate change and health research
- DESTINATION 2: HORIZON-HLTH-2026-01-ENVHLTH-04: Towards climate resilient, prepared and carbon neutral populations and healthcare systems
- DESTINATION 2: HORIZON-HLTH-2026-01-ENVHLTH-01: Towards a better understanding and anticipation of the impacts of climate change on health
- DESTINATION 1: HORIZON-HLTH-2026-01-STAYHLTH-02: Behavioural interventions as primary prevention for Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) among young people
- DESTINATION 3: HORIZON-HLTH-2026-01-DISEASE-02: Innovative interventions to prevent the harmful effects of using digital technologies on the mental health of children and young adults
Laura Lamberg
Specialist at The Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra
Helsinki, Finland
Project cooperation
EXAscale Performance SYStems for AI acceleration
- Partner seeks Consortium/Coordinator
- DESTINATION 3: HORIZON-HLTH-2026-01-DISEASE-15: Scaling up innovation in cardiovascular health
- DESTINATION 2: HORIZON-HLTH-2026-01-ENVHLTH-04: Towards climate resilient, prepared and carbon neutral populations and healthcare systems
- DESTINATION 6: HORIZON-HLTH-2026-01-IND-03: Regulatory science to support translational development of patient-centred health technologies
- DESTINATION 5: HORIZON-HLTH-2026-01-TOOL-03: Integrating New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) to advance biomedical research and regulatory testing
- DESTINATION 3: HORIZON-HLTH-2026-01-DISEASE-11: Understanding of sex and/or gender-specific mechanisms of cardiovascular diseases: determinants, risk factors and pathways
Dimitris Theodoropoulos
Project management support at Exascale Peformance Systems - EXAPSYS
Chania, Crete, Greece
Project cooperation
- Partner seeks Consortium/Coordinator
- DESTINATION 2: HORIZON-HLTH-2026-01-ENVHLTH-04: Towards climate resilient, prepared and carbon neutral populations and healthcare systems
- DESTINATION 2: HORIZON-HLTH-2026-01-ENVHLTH-01: Towards a better understanding and anticipation of the impacts of climate change on health
- DESTINATION 4: HORIZON-HLTH-2026-01-CARE-01: Public procurement of innovative solutions for improving citizens' access to healthcare through integrated or personalised approaches
Christos Sotirios Acheimastos
EU Assistant Project Manager at SOCIAL COOPERATIVE ENTERPRISE OF COLLECTIVE AND SOCIAL BENEFIT (OIKANOS)
Athens, Greece