It tackles climate change, helps to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and boosts the EU’s competitiveness and growth.
The programme facilitates collaboration and strengthens the impact of research and innovation in developing, supporting and implementing EU policies while tackling global challenges. It supports creating and better dispersing of excellent knowledge and technologies.
It creates jobs, fully engages the EU’s talent pool, boosts economic growth, promotes industrial competitiveness and optimises investment impact within a strengthened European Research Area.
Previous programme: Horizon 2020
Horizon 2020 was the largest EU Research and Innovation programme ever with nearly €80 billion of funding available over 7 years (2014 to 2020). By coupling research and innovation, Horizon 2020 helped to achieve this with its emphasis on excellent science, industrial leadership and tackling societal challenges. The goal was to ensure Europe produces world-class science, removed barriers to innovation and made it easier for the public and private sectors to work together in delivering innovation.
For more information on Horizon 2020 click here.
Draft "pre-publication" work programmes for 2016-2017 have been made available by the European Commission. These documents have not yet been endorsed by the EC however they provide participants with the expected main lines of the work programme 2016-2017. Please click here for more information regarding the work programmes.
A new EU Horizon2020 Programme proposal (‘CoCA’) was submitted in October 2014. The outcome was successful. Further information can be found here.