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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SESSION 1 – PLENARY
WELCOME AND KEYNOTE SPEECHES – SETTING THE CONTEXT
09:00 – 09:20 | WELCOME SPEECHES | From a Horizon Europe project to action: Mobilising Invest4Health – What our consortium built, why it matters, and what comes next
09:20 – 09:40 | KEYNOTE SPEECH | Why act now? Turning the prevention investment gap into an opportunity for equity and sustainability
09:40 – 10:00 | KEYNOTE SPEECH | From costs to capacity: Rethinking public investment in prevention – National investment models for prevention and the future of health financing
10:00 – 10:20 | KEYNOTE SPEECH | How to attract private and blended finance for investment in health promotion and well-being
10:20 – 10:30 | Q&A | Questions and discussion
10:30 – 11:00 | COFFEE BREAK | NETWORKING
SESSION 2 – PLENARY
FROM PILOTS TO SCALABLE INVESTMENTS
11:00 – 11:15 | PRESENTATION | Smart Capacitating Investment: Investor motivation and available finance models
11:15 – 11:30 | PRESENTATION | What would draw banks into financing health impact? Investability and the management of risks
11:30 – 12:30 | PANEL DISCUSSION | From pilots to scale: financing and governance models for prevention, health promotion and equity
12:30 – 13:15 | LUNCH | NETWORKING
SESSION 3 – PARALLEL SESSIONS
A1) TESTBED EXPERIENCES – SMART CAPACITATING INVESTMENT IN PRACTICE
13:15 – 13:30 | INTRODUCTORY PRESENTATION | Framing the evidence from regional testbeds
13:30 – 14:30 | ROUNDTABLE AND VIDEO PITCHES | Testbed experiences: collective learning through short stories and examples
A2) UNDER CONSTRUCTION – PAVING THE PATH FOR UPSTREAMHEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE
13:15 – 14:30 | INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP | Fishbowl dialogue & Peer learning
14:30 – 15:00 | COFFEE BREAK | NETWORKING
SESSION 4 – PLENARY
COMMITMENT AND NEXT STEPS
15:00 – 16:00 | PANEL DISCUSSION AND Q&A | Mainstreaming health promotion investment: what should policy look like?
16:00 – 16:15 | CLOSING REFLECTIONS | Key insights from the parallel sessions and summary of the day
16:15 | CONFERENCE CLOSE
NETWORKING RECEPTION
16:15 – 17:15 | RECEPTION | NETWORKING
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SPEAKERS
- Regional testbed representatives (Invest4Health)
- Finance and investment experts
- Public health experts
- Governance and policy specialists
- THCS partnership representatives
- EU and national policy representatives