HealthCare Innovation at Euromed Days 2026 in Nicosia
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HealthCare Innovation at Euromed Days 2026 in Nicosia
HealthCare Innovation joined Euromed Days 2026 in Nicosia from 15 to 17 June. The meeting gathered more than 120 delegates from 26 Euro-Mediterranean countries. ANIMA Investment Network and Invest Cyprus co-organised it. Dr Haroun Ouanes and Hatem Fathallah represented the cluster.
HealthCare Innovation is the HealthTech cluster based in Monastir, Tunisia. Euromed Days brings together development agencies, clusters and investors from across the region.
Why a Tunisian health cluster travels to Cyprus
Health innovation crosses borders faster than health funding does. A tool built in Tunis can serve a hospital in Nicosia. The money to build it rarely moves the same way.
Euromed Days puts cluster managers, agencies and investors in one room for three days. For a cluster, that room is the product. A meeting held there can become a joint project two years later.
The link to E-HealthNAx
ANIMA Investment Network . That is the European programme funding our E-HealthNAx project with France and Poland.
The numbers behind it are public. The European Union covers up to 90 percent of a 7.8 million euro budget. The programme runs until 2026 across seven southern Mediterranean countries, where 81 clusters have been identified.
That link shortened several conversations in Nicosia. A cluster already delivering under the programme does not have to explain what it is. We describe that delivery in E-HealthNAx 2026 launch day in Tunis
« We do not go to these meetings to present Tunisia. We go to find the two or three partners who have the same problem we do, and who will still answer the phone in eighteen months. » Dr Haroun Ouanes, Director, HealthCare Innovation
The funding gap behind the travel
There is a hard reason a cluster invests three days in a room in Cyprus.
African healthtech startups raised 215 million dollars in 2025, up 232 percent on the year before, according to a sector report on digital health funding in Africa. Tunisian healthtech companies have raised around 2.24 million dollars in total, according to the Tracxn database as of May 2026. Both figures come from commercial trackers rather than official statistics, and both should be read as orders of magnitude.
Even read loosely, the gap is not a talent gap. We examine its real causes in 68 startups, 2.24 million dollars
Regional access is often what separates a pilot from a company. A small national market rarely supports a healthtech firm alone.
Why the standards conversation matters here
Cooperation is not only about money. The Global strategy on digital health of the World Health Organization laces governance and interoperability among the pillars of safe digital health systems.
Neither pillar stops at a border. A Tunisian medical device that meets one standard in Tunis and another in Nicosia serves no one. That is why interoperability sits on the same agenda as investment, and we treat it in FHIR, Sahetna.tn and the interoperability gap
What comes next
HCI will follow up on the contacts made in Nicosia. Cluster agreements and investor introductions are the two tracks.
Firms preparing a European market entry can start with the regulatory groundwork. See our Pharma and medical device services . Clusters looking for a Tunisian counterpart can reach us through the Clusters and incubators page
Frequently Asked Questions
- Q: What is Euromed Days?
A: An annual meeting of economic development agencies, clusters and investors from the Euro-Mediterranean region, organised by ANIMA Investment Network with a national host. The 2026 edition took place in Nicosia, Cyprus.
- Q: When did the 2026 edition take place?
A: From 15 to 17 June 2026, with more than 120 delegates from 26 countries.
- Q: Who represented HealthCare Innovation?
A: Dr Haroun Ouanes and Hatem Fathallah.
- Q: How does this connect to E-HealthNAx?
A: ANIMA Investment Network steers Euromed Clusters Forward, the European programme funding E-HealthNAx. The same network supports both.
- Q: Can a Tunisian startup join these meetings?
A: Cluster members can be introduced through HealthCare Innovation. Contact the cluster to be considered for the next edition.
HCI Resources
Accelerating Innovation in HealthTech
Pharma & Medical Device Regulatory Services
External Citations
ANIMA Investment Network – Euromed Days 2026
ANIMA Investment Network – Euromed Clusters Forward
World Health Organization – Global strategy on digital health 2020-2025
