Germany’s Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation (SPRIND) and Current AI - a global partnership founded at the AI Action Summit in February 2025 to accelerate public-interest AI - are joining forces to unlock one of Europe's most powerful yet underutilized innovation assets: its health data. Across hospitals and research institutions, vast amounts of clinical and biological data remain difficult to access and use, despite their immense potential to accelerate biomedical discovery through AI-driven innovation.
The Health Data Challenge will explore how public interest and cutting edge AI, and technical and data governance innovations can transform the future of healthcare, driving the next biomedical breakthroughs, whilst respecting privacy. Bringing together SPRIND and Current AI strengthens the Franco-German collaboration for public interest technology and aims to demonstrate how Europe can lead in building open, secure and high-quality datasets that will allow AI models to help meet some of the most pressing challenges in health.
Rafael Laguna de la Vera, Director of SPRIND, said “Our Challenge model works because it focuses on solving hard problems with the best talent and ultra-short time to money for the teams. Through this partnership with Current AI, we're unlocking Europe's health data for breakthrough innovation.”
Martin Tisné, Founder and Chair of Current AI, said: “Striking the right balance between individual privacy and collective use of health data is a huge opportunity for European leadership, for impact, with global consequences. Through this collaboration with SPRIND, we aim to demonstrate how Europe can lead in developing AI for health.”