Final Conference
MOBILISING NEW FINANCIAL APPROACHES FOR EQUITABLE HEALTH AND WELLBEING
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 infrastructure, but in people, communities, prevention, and cross-sector partnerships.
Close collaboration continues with eight regional testbeds that are piloting innovative approaches such as youth mental health programmes, telemedicine solutions, workplace health promotion, and social prescribing models. These practical experiences are generating concrete evidence on enabling conditions, governance arrangements, and financing combinations that support effective and equitable prevention. The results contribute to a robust value proposition for policymakers, investors, and delivery partners, and form the basis for wider adoption.
The knowledge and tools generated through this work are being consolidated into practical guidance and transferable instruments for broader European use, showing that SCI is not only a concept, but an operational and scalable investment approach for regions seeking to embed prevention and equity into long-term system financing.
The Invest4Health Final Event on 28 May 2026 in Brussels, organised under the Horizon Europe framework, is therefore designed not as a traditional project closing conference, but as a mobilisation and transition event. Its purpose is to move from project results to practical uptake, partnerships, and scaling pathways. The conference will present project outcomes and testbed experiences, while actively engaging policymakers, regions, and financing actors in next-step opportunities.
The event will also feature the launch of a joint White Paper developed with the Transforming Health and Care Systems European Partnership, outlining strategic options for future European and national investment in prevention and health promotion. By bringing together European institutions, national and regional authorities, financing organisations, investors, community partners, and academic experts, the Final Event aims to build alignment, commitment, and collaboration for the next phase of Smart Capacitating Investment implementation across Europe.
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PROGRAMME
MOBILISING NEW FINANCIAL APPROACHES FOR EQUITABLE HEALTH AND WELLBEING
DATE: 28 May 2026
Event Address: Brussels, Committee of the Regions, 5th floor of JDE/Rue Belliard 99, 1040 Bruxelles, Room JDE 51 and JDE 53
08:30–09:00 – Registration
Arrival and networking
Plenary: Welcome & Keynotes – Setting Context and Concepts
Objective: Present the SCI concept, policy relevance, and prevention investment rationale
09:00–09:15 – Welcome Address
From project results to action: mobilising Invest4Health
- Conference purpose and expected outcomes
- Framing the day as a mobilisation moment
09:15–09:45 – Keynote
Why act now? The prevention investment gap and opportunity
- Equity and sustainability arguments
- Prevention as long-term system investment
09:45–10:15 – Keynote
From costs to capacity: national prevention investment models
- Example of treating prevention as investment
- Cross-sector financing logic
10:15–10:40 – Moderated Q&A
10:40–11:00 – Coffee Break
Plenary Panel: SCI compatible Business, Financing and Governance Models
Objective: Show how financing and governance mechanisms enable scaling of prevention and health promotion
11:00–12:00 – Panel Discussion
From pilots to scale: financing and governance models for prevention, health promotion and equity
Topics include:
- Business and finance models for prevention
- Outcome-based and blended finance
- Pooled funding and guarantees
- Governance and collaboration platforms
12:00–12:30 – Audience Q&A
12:30–13:20 – Lunch
Parallel Sessions
Session A – SCI in Practice: Testbed Evidence and Lessons – Regional needs
13:20–14:30 – Roundtable to present short testbed stories to highlight what works in practice, under which conditions, and with which governance arrangements in Smart Capacitating Investment (SCI) implementation.
14:30–15:30 – I4H offer and regional needs – SCI resources and capacity building
Session B – Why perevention outcomes are invisible?
13:20–14:30 – Interactive workshop on policy and financal aspects
Plenary Panel: Commitment & Next Steps
Objective: Connect models and results to policy uptake and scaling commitments
15:00–15:45 – Policy Panel and White Paper Launch
Objective: From pilots to policy – Enabling Smart Capacitating Investment at scale. Policy enablers/barriers for scaling: identifying the concrete policy, institutional, and financing conditions needed to scale Smart Capacitating Investment (SCI) across Europe after Invest4Health
Focus:
- Policy and financing conditions for scaling SCI
- Alignment of health promotion policy and finance
- Joint White Paper launch
15:45–16:00 – Q&A
16:00–16:15 – Feedback from the Parallel Sessions
Key insights and lessons reported back
16:15–16:30 – Summary and Closing
16:30–17:30 – RECEPTION FOR ALL PARTICIPANTS
Speakers
- Regional testbed representatives (Invest4Health)
- Finance and investment experts
- Public health experts
- Governance and policy specialists
- THCS partnership representatives
- EU and national policy representatives
