A directory, not a ranking. Calls tracked counts the distinct open instruments we have captured from that funder — it measures administrative granularity, not money or commitment. One funder may publish a single large programme while another splits comparable activity across six named grants. Award totals are not published consistently enough to compare, so this page never sums them.
No calls match all of these filters at once.
Forte National research council
Who can apply: Sweden
This planning grant can support Swedish research groups developing international health research proposals, including women’s health projects.
Novo Nordisk Foundation Foundation
Who can apply: Nordic (varies by call)
DKK 30–75 million per grant (DKK 150 million total)
Infectious disease diagnostics are directly relevant to women’s health because women are major users of healthcare across the life course, and improved rapid AMR diagnostics and minimally invasive testing can strengthen equitable diagnosis and treatment pathways, including sex-aware clinical research.
Novo Nordisk Foundation Foundation
Who can apply: Nordic (varies by call)
Up to DKK 30-75 million per grant (DKK 150 million total)
Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of death in women, and this mechanistic hypertension call could support sex-specific research on heat-related cardiovascular risk, treatment response and prevention.
Innovative Health Initiative EU public-private partnership
Who can apply: EU + Horizon-associated countries
This is a major EU health research and innovation funding route that can support women's health research, diagnostics, therapeutics, digital health, and care innovation through broad biomedical collaboration.
Swedish Gender Equality Agency National government agency
Who can apply: Sweden
No upper limit; the budget must be reasonable for the planned activities
Violence against women is a women's health issue. This state grant funds Swedish regions, municipalities and civil society to prevent it, and gives priority to projects evaluated with a university.
Innovation Fund Denmark National innovation agency
Who can apply: Denmark
DKK 200,000–5,000,000
Sector-agnostic innovation programme frequently used by women's health and health-tech startups, with an explicit life science, health and welfare technology theme.
COST Association Intergovernmental network
Who can apply: COST member countries
This research networking call can support pan-European collaborations in women’s health, including sex-specific research, reproductive health, cardiovascular disease, cancer, mental health and health data infrastructure.
Percy Falk Foundation Foundation
Who can apply: Sweden
SEK 2,100,000 total for this application period
A Swedish foundation that funds research on breast cancer, alongside prostate cancer, with SEK 2.1 million available in this application period.
Research Council of Finland National research council
Who can apply: Finland
This programme supports disruptive technology innovation which can impact healthcare systems, potentially benefiting women's health.
CERV EU programme
Who can apply: EU member states
Gender-based violence is a health issue before it is anything else: it is a leading cause of injury, chronic pain, PTSD and pregnancy complications in women, and health services are usually the first institution a survivor meets. Funding for victim support determines whether that contact becomes a route into care or a missed opportunity, which places this squarely in the Care pillar.
CERV EU programme
Who can apply: EU member states
Prevention of gender-based violence sits upstream of a large share of women's injury, mental-health and reproductive-health burden. It is one of the few EU instruments that names women directly rather than reaching them through a disease category, so it is also a marker of how much explicitly-named women's health funding exists at EU level.
World Cancer Research Fund International Charity
Who can apply: International
GBP 350,000 per project
Cancer prevention and survivorship research is directly relevant to women’s health, including breast and gynaecological cancers as well as sex-specific survivorship needs.
European Innovation Council EU programme
Who can apply: EU + Horizon-associated countries
Equity investments to catalyse larger investment rounds of EUR 50 million or above
Sector-agnostic programme frequently used by women's health and health-tech scale-ups seeking major investment to expand clinically relevant technologies and services.
Helsefonden Foundation
Who can apply: Denmark
DKK 50K minimum; typically up to DKK 600K per grant, with larger grants possible in exceptional non-research cases
This institutional Danish grant can fund implementation and service-development projects in health and social care settings that directly benefit women’s health, including preventive, community-based and care pathway innovations.
Sigrid Jusélius Foundation Foundation
Who can apply: Finland
Supports top-level medical research, which includes women's health projects.
Swedish Cancer Society Charity
Who can apply: Sweden
Cancer is a major women’s health area, including breast, cervical, ovarian and endometrial cancers, and this implementation-focused call could support translation of relevant innovations into care.
Lena Wäppling's Foundation Foundation
Who can apply: Not stated on the call page
Not stated for this round (SEK 1 million awarded in 2026)
A Swedish foundation that funds only gynaecological research, mainly earlier diagnosis and more effective treatment of ovarian cancer.
European Commission EU institution
Who can apply: EU + associated countries
EUR 610M total
Includes disease areas relevant to women like CVD, cancer, and mental health.
Danish Cancer Society Charity
Who can apply: Not stated on the call page
This supports population, prevention and epidemiological cancer research relevant to women's health, including screening, inequities and outcomes in female cancers.
Danish Cancer Society Charity
Who can apply: Not stated on the call page
Cancer research is highly relevant to women's health, including breast, cervical, ovarian and endometrial cancers as well as sex-specific differences in cancer biology and care.
Danish Cancer Society Charity
Who can apply: Not stated on the call page
Thematic cancer funding is relevant to women's health because it can support research on female-specific cancers and sex-specific aspects of diagnosis, treatment and survivorship.
Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation Foundation
Who can apply: Sweden
This life science proof-of-concept call can support translation of biomedical discoveries into diagnostics, methods or products relevant to women’s health innovation.
Horizon Europe EU programme
Who can apply: EU + Horizon-associated countries
Chronic disease trajectories and treatment response differ by sex, and AI models trained on male-dominant cohorts underperform for women. A call funding predictive biomarkers via AI is precisely where sex-stratified validation is either built in or omitted for the next decade, which makes it a Data-pillar concern as much as a clinical one.
Horizon Europe EU programme
Who can apply: EU + Horizon-associated countries
Exposure profiles and physiological response to environmental stressors differ by sex and life stage: pregnancy alters susceptibility to heat and airborne pollutants, and menopause shifts cardiometabolic risk. Exposome cohorts that do not stratify by sex and reproductive stage will miss those effects entirely, so how this call is scoped determines whether the resulting evidence base is usable for women.
Horizon Europe EU programme
Who can apply: EU + Horizon-associated countries
Women live more years with disability than men, and are over-represented in the autoimmune, musculoskeletal and chronic pain conditions that drive much of that burden. A life-course framing is where sex-differential disability accumulation becomes visible, which makes this call directly relevant to the Care and People pillars.
Horizon Europe EU programme
Who can apply: EU + Horizon-associated countries
Diagnostic delay is a defining feature of women's health — roughly seven to ten years for endometriosis, and routine misreading of cardiac presentation in women. Portable point-of-care diagnostics act directly on that delay, so this is one of the clearer instrument-to-outcome links in the current EU health programme.
Swedish Cancer Society Charity
Who can apply: Sweden
Early detection is crucial for women's health because improved screening and diagnostic tools can directly benefit breast, cervical and ovarian cancer outcomes.
Swedish Cancer Society Charity
Who can apply: Sweden
Cancer research is directly relevant to women’s health, including breast, cervical, ovarian and endometrial cancers as well as sex-specific cancer biology and prevention.
Swedish Cancer Society Charity
Who can apply: Sweden
This supports collaboration building in cancer research, which is relevant to women's health given the burden of breast and gynaecological cancers.
European Innovation Council EU programme
Who can apply: EU + Horizon-associated countries
EUR 75,000 per startup
Sector-agnostic programme frequently used by women's health and health-tech startups, and it specifically supports women-led deep-tech companies that may develop women's health innovations.
European Commission EU institution
Who can apply: EU + associated countries
Approximately EUR 7 million per project (around EUR 14 million total)
This One Health call is directly relevant to women's health because environmental exposures and ecosystem-linked health stressors shape population health risks, prevention, and inequalities affecting women.
The Icelandic Centre for Research (Rannís) National research council
Who can apply: Iceland
Sector-agnostic innovation funding from a trusted Nordic funder that can support Icelandic women's health and health-tech research and development projects.
Research Council of Norway National research council
Who can apply: Norway
NOK 15,000,000-40,000,000 per project (NOK 320,000,000 total)
This large-scale research capacity funding can strengthen leading Norwegian environments in biomedical and clinical fields that underpin long-term progress in women’s health research.
Research Council of Norway National research council
Who can apply: Norway
NOK 4,000,000-12,000,000 per project (NOK 750,000,000 total)
This broad investigator-led funding can support advanced biomedical, translational, and clinical research addressing diseases and health conditions with major sex-specific relevance for women.
Lundbeck Foundation Foundation
Who can apply: Denmark
Up to DKK 5 million over 18 months
Broad biomedical and health-science funding can support research on conditions with major sex-specific dimensions, including cardiovascular disease, autoimmune disease and reproductive health.
Tannlege Olaf Aase og frues stiftelse Foundation
Who can apply: Researchers at Norwegian research institutions
Cancer research seminars and expert exchange can support advances in women’s cancers and broader oncology topics affecting women’s health.
Helse Vest RHF Regional health authority
Who can apply: Health trusts in the Helse Vest region
Broad regional health research funding can support clinical and biomedical studies in disease areas with major sex-specific burden, including cancer, cardiovascular disease, fertility, and mental health.
National Institute for Health and Care Research National health research funder
Who can apply: United Kingdom
Community care innovation can support delivery models for women’s health services, including preventive, reproductive and chronic condition care closer to home.
Eureka Network Intergovernmental programme
Who can apply: Cross-border consortium (2+ Eureka countries)
Globalstars can support international health and women's health innovation partnerships where the specific thematic call includes biomedical or digital health R&D.
Eureka Network Intergovernmental programme
Who can apply: Cross-border consortium (2+ Eureka countries)
EUR 500K to EUR 1.5M per organisation depending on national funding rules
Cross-border SME health and medtech projects, including women's health innovation, can use Eurostars to fund late-stage R&D and commercialisation-oriented development.
Eureka Network Intergovernmental programme
Who can apply: Cross-border consortium (2+ Eureka countries)
EUR 60K per project
Women's health and digital health SMEs can use this programme to test international market potential for femtech, diagnostics, and care innovations.
| Funder | Source | Type | Based in | Who can apply | Most direct call | Calls tracked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CERV | Public | EU programme | EU | EU member states | Women's health | 2 |
| COST Association | Public | Intergovernmental network | EU | COST member countries | Open to all | 1 |
| Danish Cancer Society | Private | Charity | DK | Not stated on the call page | Sex-specific | 3 |
| Eureka Network | Public | Intergovernmental programme | EU | Cross-border consortium (2+ Eureka countries) | Open to all | 3 |
| European Commission | Public | EU institution | EU | EU + associated countries | Open to all | 2 |
| European Innovation Council | Public | EU programme | EU | EU + Horizon-associated countries | Women's health | 2 |
| Forte | Public | National research council | SE | Sweden | Open to all | 1 |
| Helse Vest RHF | Public | Regional health authority | NO | Health trusts in the Helse Vest region | Open to all | 1 |
| Helsefonden | Private | Foundation | DK | Denmark | Open to all | 1 |
| Horizon Europe | Public | EU programme | EU | EU + Horizon-associated countries | Open to all | 4 |
| Innovation Fund Denmark | Public | National innovation agency | DK | Denmark | Open to all | 1 |
| Innovative Health Initiative | Public | EU public-private partnership | EU | EU + Horizon-associated countries | Open to all | 1 |
| Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation | Private | Foundation | SE | Sweden | Open to all | 1 |
| Lena Wäppling's Foundation | Private | Foundation | SE | Not stated on the call page | Women's health | 1 |
| Lundbeck Foundation | Private | Foundation | DK | Denmark | Open to all | 1 |
| National Institute for Health and Care Research | Public | National health research funder | GB | United Kingdom | Open to all | 1 |
| Novo Nordisk Foundation | Private | Foundation | DK | Nordic (varies by call) | Open to all | 2 |
| Percy Falk Foundation | Private | Foundation | SE | Sweden | Women's health | 1 |
| Research Council of Finland | Public | National research council | FI | Finland | Open to all | 1 |
| Research Council of Norway | Public | National research council | NO | Norway | Open to all | 2 |
| Sigrid Jusélius Foundation | Private | Foundation | FI | Finland | Open to all | 1 |
| Swedish Cancer Society | Private | Charity | SE | Sweden | Sex-specific | 4 |
| Swedish Gender Equality Agency | Public | National government agency | SE | Sweden | Women's health | 1 |
| Tannlege Olaf Aase og frues stiftelse | Private | Foundation | NO | Researchers at Norwegian research institutions | Sex-specific | 1 |
| The Icelandic Centre for Research (Rannís) | Public | National research council | IS | Iceland | Open to all | 1 |
| World Cancer Research Fund International | Private | Charity | GB | International | Sex-specific | 1 |
Method. Every call is checked for a working link and carries a written women's-health rationale before it is listed; a card without one is dropped rather than published. A working link is not proof that a call is open: a call with a published deadline is removed once that date passes, but a rolling call has no date to cross, so those are re-checked against the funder's page on a schedule and carry the date they were last checked. Always confirm eligibility and deadlines on the funder's own page. Amounts are shown only where the funder publishes them, per call, and are never aggregated — comparing totals would require award data that these bodies do not publish consistently.
Disclosure. Women's Health 2040 is held as open commons. Its founder, Julia Persson, also founded Scita Health ApS, which is eligible for and may apply to programmes of the kind listed here. Listings are criteria-based and applied uniformly: a call appears because it passes the relevance, link and eligibility checks, never because of any relationship to it. No funder pays for placement.
Tell us what we have missed. This radar is built from public sources, so it is only as good as what funders publish and what we can see. If a call is missing, misclassified, or has closed, write to hello@womenshealth2040.org and it will be corrected in the next weekly update.
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