About HORIZON EUROPE | HORIZONEUROPE

Horizon Europe (2021-2027) is the European Union’s (EU’s) key funding programme for research and innovation, with a budget of more than €95 billion. The programme is built around three main pillars – excellent science, global challenges and industrial competitiveness, and innovative Europe.

Five missions relating to climate change, cancer, oceans and water, carbon-neutral cities and soil health, also form an integral part of Horizon Europe.

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.

Legal entities from the EU and associated countries can participate.

Our National Support Network for Horizon Europe works with Moldovan’s researchers, innovators and entrepreneurs to help them compete for and win funding to advance their research and innovation ambitions.

New elements in Horizon Europe

European Innovation Council: Support for innovations with potential breakthrough and disruptive nature with scale-up potential that may be too risky for private investors. This is 70% of the budget earmarked for SMEs.
Missions: Sets of measures to achieve bold, inspirational and measurable goals within a set timeframe. There are 5 main mission areas as part of Horizon Europe.
Open science policy: Mandatory open access to publications and open science principles are applied throughout the programme
Factsheet: Open science in Horizon Europe
New approach to partnerships: Objective-driven and more ambitious partnerships with industry in support of EU policy objectives

Pillar 1

EXCELLENCE SCIENCE

DRIVING SCIENTIFIC EXCELLENCE AND SUPPORTING THE EU’S POSITION AS A WORLD LEADER IN SCIENCE

Research, science, and innovation are pushing our societies and economies forward. New knowledge improves all aspects of our life. The first pillar of Horizon Europe - Excellent Science - supports frontier research and breakthrough scientific ideas, teams up the best researchers from Europe and beyond and equips them with skills and word-class research infrastructures

European Research Council

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Research Infrastructures

Pillar 2

GLOBAL CHALLENGES & EUROPEAN INDUSTRIAL COMPETITIVENESS

The pillar 'Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness' is established through clusters of research and innovation activities, in order to maximise integration and synergies across the respective thematic areas while securing high and sustainable levels of impact for the Union in relation to the resources that are expended

Cluster 1 Health

Cluster 2 Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Society

Cluster 3 Civil Security for Society

Cluster 4 Digital, Industry and Space

Cluster 5 Climate, Energy and Mobility

Cluster 6 Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment

Pillar 3

INNOVATIVE EUROPE

SUPPORTING AND CONNECTING INNOVATORS ACROSS EUROPE

Europe has a solid research and industrial base and is the home of bold, creative entrepreneurs. Yet it often needs to strengthen the use of its scientific excellence and industrial prowess to accelerate innovation and turn innovative SMEs into global technology giants. By reinforcing close cross-border collaboration between multiple actors, including academia, the public sector, industry and individual entrepreneurs, Horizon Europe aims to develop radical solutions to pressing societal challenges and fostering sustainable economic growth and employment. Through its Pillar III ‘Innovative Europe’, the programme will focus on supporting the development of disruptive and market-creating innovations and on enhancing European innovation ecosystems

European Innovation Council

European Innovation Ecosystems

European Institute of Innovation and Technology

WIDENING PARTICIPATION AND ERA

EXCELLENCE ACROSS EUROPE BOOSTING RESEARCH AND INNOVATION PERFORMANCE THROUGHOUT THE UNION

Horizon Europe’s Widening actions will support those EU countries that continue to lag behind in research and innovation to increase the performance of their research and innovation systems. Actions will: Support centres of excellence, Establish a vibrant ecosystem, Enhance capacity to access research networks, Attract talents Improve skills of researchers

Widening participation and spreading excellence

Reforming and enhancing the European Research and Innovation system

OTHER

Other research, science, and innovation tools that support frontier research and develop research infrastructures

COST and EUREKA

Enterprise Europe Network (EEN)

Nuclear FISSION AND FUSION Energy

Missions

Legal and Financial Rules