Horizon Europe / FP10 integration

The European Framework Programme is the architecture through which Nordic women’s health research either travels into the next decade of European funding or doesn’t. Horizon Europe is in flight; FP10 is in formation through 2027 and will set the architecture for European biomedical research for a decade. If women’s health is not named as a mission or partnership during the architecture phase, it can only be restored through the gender dimension crosscut, where addressing sex and gender is not the same as methodological adequacy, and where individual project budgets cannot match dedicated mission funding.

Active Nordic engagement in the FP10 architectural conversation through the Irish Presidency in the second half of 2026, feeding into the Nordic FP10 position paper (R-Po-3), is the action that fits the window. The value is that the Nordics arrive in Brussels with a shared technical brief rather than five overlapping national ones. Universities Norway, NordForsk, and the EU offices of the national research councils are positioned to lead.