Dear Reader, Welcome to the final edition of the Invest4Health Newsletter. Three and a half years ago, we set out to change how Europe thinks about investing in health promotion and disease prevention. This final edition captures where that argument now stands. Specifically, the importance and relevance of smart capacitating investment. It also shows the breadth of outputs and how the work continues through the knowledge, partnerships, tools and frameworks. Thank you to everyone who has contributed to Invest4Health, our partners, stakeholders,...

Scaling successful health promotion initiatives requires more than good ideas. It requires practical tools, knowledge, and collaboration, and investment. The Invest4Health Smart Capacitating Investment (SCI) package is a comprehensive support framework designed to  sustain health promotion and disease prevention initiatives. The package combines four key components: (i) an SCI knowledge base that provides evidence and research, (ii) a practical toolkit for SCI implementation, (iii) a competence-building programme with expert guidance, and...

One of the lasting outcomes of the Invest4Health project is the publication of a new White Paper addressing one of the biggest challenges facing health and care innovation in Europe: how to move successful projects beyond the pilot phase towards sustainable implementation and scale-up. The White Paper, Hard but not Impossible: Scaling What Works in Health Promotion, Disease Prevention and Integrated Health and Care through the “Missing Middle”, was developed by a joint Working Group bringing together Invest4Health and Work Package...

On 28 May 2026, the Invest4Health consortium welcomed policymakers, researchers, public health professionals, and investors to its Final Conference at the European Committee of the Regions in Brussels. The event marked the culmination of more than three and a half years of collaboration. It opened a discussion on how the project’s results can continue to shape future policy and practice across Europe. Under the title Mobilising New Financial Approaches for Equitable Health and Wellbeing, the event brought together experiences from eight...

Newsletter – Issue 820 April 2026 We are pleased to invite you to the Invest4Health Horizon Europe project final event: “Mobilising New Financial Approaches for Equitable Health and Wellbeing.”  Date: 28 May 2026 |  09:00–17:15Venue: Brussels, European Committee of the Regions   European health systems are facing increasing pressure from ageing populations, workforce shortages, rising costs, and the long-term impacts of COVID-19. Chronic diseases already account for over 75% of healthcare spending. Investing in prevention is no longer...

The Invest4Health Horizon Europe project is organising an online workshop at the European Public Health Week on 5 May 2026 focusing on innovative approaches to financing health promotion and disease prevention. Titled “New ways to finance Health Promotion and Disease Prevention: The Invest4Health project and Smart Capacitating Investment as an approach for scaling public health initiatives long-term”, the webinar will introduce Smart Capacitating Investment (SCI) as a novel financing model. The session will explore how SCI can support the scaling...

Many organisations across Europe are working to improve health and well-being through prevention, community-based action, and cross-sector collaboration. However, these efforts often rely on different concepts, funding approaches, and ways of measuring success, making alignment difficult and limiting long-term impact. Against this background, the Invest4Health project has been working closely with the Transforming Health and Care Systems (THCS) Partnership WP9 to explore how health promotion and disease prevention can be financed in more coordinated...

Save the date: 28 May 2026, Brussels Over the final phase of the Invest4Health project, partners are intensively strengthening and validating the foundations of Smart Capacitating Investment (SCI). Current work focuses on refining the business and financing models developed within the project, testing practical SCI tools together with regional partners, and consolidating lessons from real-world implementation. This includes documenting success stories, identifying operational challenges, and demonstrating how SCI enables investment not only in...

At the Radical Health Festival in Helsinki this January, Invest4Health joined policymakers, innovators, civil society leaders and financing actors to advance a shared agenda: rethinking how we finance precision health. Central to this discussion was a deeper challenge: redefining how Europe understands, governs, and funds health itself. If health is genuinely co-produced across sectors and local communities, then the implication is unavoidable: the “health system” can no longer be defined by institutions or budgets alone, but by function. In this...

We are proud to announce that a key scientific publication emerging from the Horizon Europe–funded Invest4Health project has been published in the European Journal of Health Economics.The article, Broadening sources of finance for health promotion and disease prevention: Smart Capacitating Investment, addresses one of the most persistent challenges in public health today: how to mobilise sufficient, sustainable resources for prevention and health promotion in a context dominated by treatment-focused spending. This publication represents a major...