Lifting the lid on in-kind contributions

IHI’s funding is based on a model of blended finance, where EU funding is matched by contributions from IHI's industry partners and (in some projects) other organisations such as philanthropic foundations.  

The majority (around 90%) of the industry contribution to IMI and IHI projects is ‘in-kind’. In-kind contributions include scientific and regulatory expertise; unique data, assets and compounds; and access to state-of-the-art research infrastructure and cutting-edge technology. Crucially, these private sector in-kind contributions complement the skills, expertise and resources brought into the project by the ‘public’ partners such as universities and patient organisations.  

 During this webinar, representatives of IMI and IHI projects will: 

• present concrete examples of different kinds of in-kind contributions; 

• explain how in-kind contributions allowed the projects to deliver results that would not have been possible otherwise; 

• demonstrate how in-kind contributions incentivise the uptake and exploitation of project results; 

• describe how in-kind contributions drive additional activities within and across companies by combining outcomes from several projects.