HORIZON 2020: EUROPEAN UNION FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME FOR RESEARCH & INNOVATION
Horizon 2020 offers innovative companies and research organisations unique opportunities to join R&D and innovation projects carried out by international teams with co-funding from the EU.
Horizon 2020 is designed to strengthen Europe’s competitiveness through a variety of funding instruments and other targeted measures. By strengthening research, innovation and technology, Europe hopes to induce job creation through growth.
The programme finances research projects, as well as projects targeting innovation issues that drive so-called intelligent, sustainable and inclusive growth.
The activities of Horizon 2020 are organised in three main blocks:
- The Excellent Science block has the aim to strengthen the EU’s position in the field of fundamental research.
- The Industrial Leadership block aims to strengthen Europe’s industrial leadership through innovation.
- The Societal Challenges block targets solutions for the most pressing societal problems.
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- Events - European Research and Innovation Days - 24-26 September 2019, Brussels, BelgiumThe first annual policy event of the European Commission, bringing together stakeholders to debate and shape the future research and innovation landscape.Speakers will include ministers, commissioners, members of European Parliament, researchers, as well as surprise guests each day.The event will be central to finding research and innovation solutions for this great transition by working across […]
- Events - PECUNIA Satellite Workshop - registration open - 17 July 2019, Basel, SwitzerlandThe H2020 project PECUNIA (ProgrammE in Costing, resource use measurement and outcome valuation for Use in multi-sectoral National and International health economic evaluAtions) is organising an interactive workshop on validating the methodological approach developed in the course of the project and on drawing up a roadmap for the further work plan. Health economists with interest […]
- European Innovation Council - Up to €17.5 million in financing for innovative companies under the EIC, to support rapid growth of breakthrough, market-creating ideasFrom today, innovative companies can apply for up to €17.5 million in combined grant and equity financing to scale-up quickly and effectively through the EIC ‘Accelerator’ pilot, increasing support for ground-breaking concepts that could shape new markets or disrupt existing ones in Europe and worldwide.
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