Updated last 18.06.2025
What is the program?
The Horizon Europe Programme, the successor to Horizon 2020, is the EU’s leading framework programme for research and innovation for the period 2021–2027, with a budget of close to €95.5 billion. It aims to promote high scientific excellence, support tackling global challenges such as climate change and health and boost European competitiveness and growth through the development of innovative solutions. The programme funds research activities, promotes knowledge and technology transfer, and supports the creation of a sustainable and healthy Europe.
What is the objective of the program?
The aim of “Horizon Europe” is to increase the EU role in the sectors of the science and technologies in view of overcoming the main global challenges in spheres of life-important significance, such as healthcare, population aging, security, pollution and climate change. To that relation “Horizon Europe” isencouraging the high achievements and provide valuable support to the best researchers and innovators, to give an impetus to long-term sustainable changes, needed for ensuring green, healthy and sustainable Europe.
The “Horizon Europe” is build on three piers:
- High achievements in the scientific sphere;
- Global challenges and competitiveness of the European industry;
- Innovative Europe
Moreover “Horizon Europe” is encouraging the participation and minimize the differences among the states in the sphere of the scientific research and innovations through a wide specter of measures for aid to the states with lower results in the area of the scientific research and innovations for creating centers for high achievements, for improving the capacity thereof and for easing the cooperation connections. For the purpose 3.3 % of the programme’s budget are set aside, which represents a significant increase compared to “Horizon 2020”.
“Horizon Europe” isincreasing its impact, working in close cooperation with another EU programmes and policies, such as InvestEU, “Erasmus +”, the EU Cohesion Policy, “Digital Europe”, the European structural and investment funds, the Connecting Europe Facility and the Recovery and Resilience Facility, in view of encouraging the fast distribution at national and regional level and the adoption of the results from the scientific research and innovations.
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