A European Partnership on Transforming health and care systems – state of play and future plans

Horizon Europe will foresee the establishment of a number of European Partnerships. One proposed Partnerships is targeted towards Transforming health and care systems, which is presented in the opening presentation. Research and Innovation activities (R&I) in such a EU Partnership should accelerate the transformation towards sustainable health and care systems. It builds on the experience and outcomes of some closely related European initiatives, including the Active & Assisted Living Programme (AAL Programme), the Joint Programme Initiative “More Years, Better Lives', the European Innovation Partnership on Active & Healthy Ageing and the To-Reach Coordination and Support Action (CSA). The four initiatives share a common vision to improve the European citizens' health by reaching high quality, fairly accessible, sustainable, efficient, health promoting and resilient health and care systems for all EU citizens. The Partnership aims to achieve this objective by 2030 by means of providing multidisciplinary research with a particular focus on improving the ability of relevant health and care actors to take up innovative solutions, including organisational, service and policy innovations. The process is to develop a Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA), building on work on already conducted by previous projects and initiatives, including the ones listed above. The workshop at the EPH Conference can be seen as part of a series of workshops to advance the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda based on countries priorities and wide stakeholders' consultations, To provide cumulitative learning, the presentation will share the outcomes of a consultation process among European stakeholders so far, among others involving decision makers and research funding bodies to identify common goals and priorities, providing opportunity to workshop participants to reflect and add missing elements crucial for such a Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda.