About the Horizon 2020 Programme:
Horizon 2020 is the biggest EU Research and Innovation programme ever with nearly €80 billion of funding available over 7 years (2014 to 2020) – in addition to the private investment that this money will attract. It promises more breakthroughs, discoveries and world-firsts by taking great ideas from the lab to the market.
Horizon 2020 is the financial instrument implementing theInnovation Union, a Europe 2020 flagship initiative aimed at securing Europe's global competitiveness.
Seen as a means to drive economic growth and create jobs, Horizon 2020 has the political backing of Europe’s leaders and the Members of the European Parliament. They agreed that research is an investment in our future and so put it at the heart of the EU’s blueprint for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth and jobs.
By coupling research and innovation, Horizon 2020 is helping to achieve this with its emphasis on excellent science, industrial leadership and tackling societal challenges. The goal is to ensure Europe produces world-class science, removes barriers to innovation and makes it easier for the public and private sectors to work together in delivering innovation.
Horizon 2020 is open to everyone, with a simple structure that reduces red tape and time so participants can focus on what is really important. This approach makes sure new projects get off the ground quickly – and achieve results faster.
The EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation will be complemented by further measures to complete and further develop the European Research Area. These measures will aim at breaking down barriers to create a genuine single market for knowledge, research and innovation.
Priorities:
European Research Council (ERC): Frontier research by the best individual teams |
13.095 |
Future and Emerging Technologies: Collaborative research to open new fields of innovation |
2.696 |
Marie Sk?odowska-Curie actions (MSCA): Opportunities for training and career development
|
6.162 |
Research infrastructures (including e-infrastructure): Ensuring access to world-class facilities
|
2.488 |
Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies (LEITs) (ICT, nanotechnologies, materials, biotechnology, manufacturing, space)
|
13.557 |
Access to risk finance Leveraging private finance and venture capital for research and innovation
|
2.842 |
Innovation in SMEs Fostering all forms of innovation in all types of SMEs
|
616 + complemented by expected 20% of budget of societal challenges + LEITs and 'Access to risk finance' with strong SME focus
|
Health, demographic change and wellbeing
|
7.472 |
Food security, sustainable agriculture, marine and maritime research & the Bioeconomy
|
3.851 |
Secure, clean and efficient energy *
|
5.931 |
Smart, green and integrated transport
|
6.339 |
Climate action, resource efficiency and raw materials
|
3.081 |
Inclusive and reflective societies
|
1.309 |
Secure societies
|
1.695 |
Science with and for society
|
462 |
Spreading excellence and widening participation
|
816 |
Find out more: http://www.ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020
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