What is Horizon Europe?
Horizon Europe (HE) is the EU’s key funding programme for research and innovation with a budget of €93.5 billion.
It tackles climate change, helps to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and boosts the EU’s competitiveness and growth.
The programme facilitates excellent science, collaborative research and innovation in efforts to develop and implement EU policies while tackling global challenges and fostering the tech-driven green and digital transitions. It supports the creation and better diffusion of excellent knowledge and technologies.
Horizon Europe creates jobs, fully engages the available talent pool, boosts economic growth, promotes industrial competitiveness and optimises investment impact for a stronger European Research Area and the New European Innovation Agenda.
Expert Consultations offered to stakeholders in Easter Partnership (EaP) partner countries for project proposal preparations
The European Commission is implementing a project within the Global Support Service Facility to facilitate a stronger participation of the 5 Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Republic of Moldova and Ukraine in Horizon Europe, the EU’s Framework for Research and Innovation, and in the European Research Area (ERA).
Researchers and innovators from the EaP partner countries can already from now request individual expert consultations, which are granted on a case-by-case basis following consultations with the National Contact Points.
This customised support is addressed to potential applicants targeting a concrete call/topic of Horizon Europe. It will focus on questions such as: ‘decoding’ the call; matching between the call and the researcher’s expertise; consortium building; securing roles in a consortium; structuring the budget; etc.
Applications for Expert Consultations
Interested researchers and innovators from Moldova are invited to register using the following link: https://registration.dlr-pt.de/en/expert-consultations-for-horizon-europe-proposals-preparation/registration.
Applications will be evaluated at the end of every calendar month till May 2027, based on information provided in the registration file, as a limited number of consultations is available. For urgent requests interested stakeholders should inform the Horizon Europe National Contact Point Coordinator of Moldova and the GSF team (EU-EaP_STIcooperation@Servicefacility.eu).