European Virtual Human Twins Initiative: Accelerating innovation and making personalised medicine a reality through virtual human twins

When: 21/10/2025 - 21/10/2025
Where: Brussels
The European Commission is organising a high-level event to discuss the strategic vision for the European Virtual Human Twins (VHT) Initiative – a major step towards driving AI innovation and making personalised medicine a reality.

Key discussion topics

  • The role of the VHT Initiative in addressing the gaps identified in the VHT Roadmap developed by the EDITH Coordination and Support Action
  • How the forthcoming advanced platform for virtual human twins can reap the benefits of, and be integrated into, the European Health Data Space and other health data infrastructures (e.g. cancer imaging, genomics)
  • Key aspects for VHT solutions uptake, in particular regulatory aspects
  • Challenges and opportunities for VHT foundational research

Target audience

The event is targeting the following audience:

  • Representatives of Health Ministries and/or Research and innovation and/or Digital Ministries of EU Member States; Member states representatives from Permanent representations to the EU
  • Representatives of European and national health professional societies and patients associations
  • Academia and research institutes working on VHTs
  • Industry and SMEs working on VHTs

Draft agenda

  • Welcome and introduction
  • Keynote speeches
    • Roberto Viola, European Commission, Deputy Director-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology
    • National perspective on VHT in health and care – Member State authorities
    • Industry perspective on VHT in health and care
    • Healthcare professional perspective on advancing VHTs
  • Panel session: inclusive Roadmap and Platform for VHTs to accelerate innovation
  • Lunch break
  • Panel discussion: Harnessing data for advancing integrated VHTs – focus on EU data spaces and infrastructures
  • Parallel panel discussions
    • A) Regulatory aspects
    • B) Research in VHTs (challenges and opportunities in foundational research)
  • Plenary: summary of findings and closing
  • Refreshment and networking

Registrations

More information and registration: here


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