Collaboration Call: HORIZON-HLTH-2026-01-STAYHLTH-02

Ankara Medipol University is currently exploring the development of a consortium under Horizon Europe – Cluster 1 Health for the topic HORIZON-HLTH-2026-01-STAYHLTH-02

We are open to discussions with institutions interested in joining the consortium either as:

• Coordinator / Co-coordinator

• Research partner

• Pilot implementation partner

• Local/regional public authority

• Civil society or community-based partner

• Digital health / AI / data monitoring partner

• Technology or product development partner

Priority Partner Profiles

We are particularly interested in collaborating with:

·        Universities and research centers with expertise in public health, epidemiology, behavioural science, psychology, digital health or implementation research

·        Educational institutions such as schools, universities and youth organizations able to support intervention pilots

·        Healthcare organizations and primary care institutions able to support health monitoring and risk assessment

·        Digital health, mHealth, wearable technology or AI-driven health analytics providers

·        Civil society organizations working on youth engagement, health promotion and lifestyle education

·        Public authorities involved in education policy, preventive health programmes or youth services

Priority Countries

Priority countries have been selected to reflect a broad range of European health systems, sociocultural environments and lifestyle contexts in which youth health behaviours and NCD risk factors may differ significantly. This geographical diversity will support the project’s cross-cultural comparative dimension and strengthen its capacity to generate robust and transferable evidence on behavioural interventions, digital self-monitoring and quantified self-related health practices among young people.

Spain, Belgium, Netherlands, Italy and Norway

These countries provide particularly strong environments for the development, implementation and comparative evaluation of youth-focused behavioural interventions. They offer a combination of public health innovation, behavioural research capacity, digital health ecosystems and prevention-oriented policy environments that can support both intervention design and real-world piloting.

Second Priority

Romania, Bulgaria, Czechia and Portugal

These countries add important value to the consortium by broadening the project’s geographical and contextual reach across Europe. Their inclusion will strengthen the project’s ability to examine the adaptability, transferability and scalability of behavioural interventions across diverse health system realities, levels of digital health uptake and sociocultural settings. They will also reinforce the project’s cross-cultural comparative perspective by enabling the analysis of variation in youth health behaviours, self-monitoring practices and intervention responsiveness across different national contexts.

Potential Roles of Partners

Depending on their institutional profile, partners may contribute in different ways.

Universities / Research Centres

• Expertise in public health, behavioural science, epidemiology or technology implementation

• Data analysis and evaluation of health outcomes

• Evaluation of intervention effectiveness and policy impact

• Comparative or pilot support in partner countries

Educational Institutions

• Pilot environments for behavioural interventions

• Engagement with youth populations

Local Authorities / Public Bodies

• Integration of interventions into local public health and education initiatives

• Support for stakeholder mobilisation and dissemination

Civil Society / Community Organisations

• Engagement with youth populations

• Support for participation and community outreach

Digital Health Partners

• Development of mobile health applications, wearable integration and digital self-monitoring tools

• Design of personalised behavioural feedback systems and user-centred digital interfaces

• Establishment of secure data processing, anonymisation and storage architecture for behavioural and health-related data

• Support for interoperability, encrypted data exchange, access control and secure platform management

• Contribution to quantified self-oriented health tracking, data-driven intervention support and long-term digital sustainability

 CONFIRMED PARTNERS:

Ministry of National Education of the Republic of Türkiye (TR)

Ghent University (BEL)

 To view the project concept note:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/10En53Hl7Ul_u3bCOL4xo6Qg4Qlfmn080/

Contact Details

• Email: tto@ankaramedipol.edu.tr