Horizon Europe has a number of key features
- Tackles climate change.
- Helps achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
- Stimulates EU competitiveness and growth.
- Promotes cooperation and strengthens the impact of research and innovation in developing, supporting and implementing EU policies while addressing global challenges.
- Supports the creation and better dissemination of excellent knowledge and technologies.
- Creates jobs, makes full use of the EU's talent pool, stimulates economic growth, promotes industrial competitiveness and optimises the impact of investments within a strengthened European Research Area.
Legal entities from the EU and associated countries can participate.
Missions
Horizon Europe introduced EU missions with the aim of better aligning research and innovation with the needs of society and citizens. These are ambitious initiatives to provide solutions to major societal challenges in Europe.
For each mission, targets have been set for 2030. For 'Climate neutral and smart cities', for example, it reads:
To support, promote and highlight 100 European cities during their systemic transformation towards climate neutrality by 2030 and use these innovation hubs as a model for all cities, improving quality of life and sustainability in Europe.
Most of the projects we participate in fall under this mission.
Open science
Horizon Europe is committed to open science; an early exchange of knowledge and data and open collaboration. The publication platform EOSC (European Open Science Cloud) offers open access to research results such as publications, data, software, models, algorithms and workflows.
Annual funding tenders (calls) can be applied for with a research proposal (proposal writing). We have over 25 years of experience in research proposal writing and have a large network of partners throughout Europe.
