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Horizon Europe

Horizon Europe is the main Research and Innovation Funding Programme of the European Commission.

Horizon 2020

Horizon 2020 is the previous Funding Programme. There are no longer calls, but projects can run until 2024.

Digital Europe

Digital Europe is a Funding Programme focused on bringing digital technology to businesses, citizens and administrations.

Other EU Funding

There are many other relevant EU funding programmes, managed by several agencies and directorates.

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Pillar 2

Global Challenges & European Industrial Competitiveness

Horizon Europe
General Aspects

Horizon Europe is a huge innovation funding programme. The subprogrammes have lot's of generic aspects in common, and best practises to take into account.

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Horizon Europe
Legal & Financial Aspects

When applying for a project, you need to take into account the administrative & financial framework, with rules for application and project implementation.

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In this part, the European Commission is looking for projects and solutions that can solve current and future global challenges. This is therefore all about how Research and Innovation can improve our society. It is divided in 6 clusters (domains) which in turn are split up in destinations (areas) which again are divided in sections and calls for proposals.

Cluster 1
Health

Health is a highly innovative sector with fast evolving technologies but this also means it is expensive to run the different national health services. EU Public investment in R&I is needed to make sure innovative health care remains available and affordable for all citizens.

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Cluster 2
Culture, Creativity & Inclusive Society

Cluster 2 will focus on the EU goals and priorities on enhancing democratic governance and citizens participation, on the safeguarding and promotion of cultural heritage and respond to and shape multifaceted social, economic, technological and cultural transformations.

Cluster 3
Civil Security for Society

As the new European Defence Fund has been set up, this cluster will solely focus on security research for civil purposes.

Cluster 4
Digital, Industry & Space

Progress in digital and industrial technologies, including in space, shape all sectors of the economy and society. They transform the way industry develops, create new products and services and are central to any sustainable future.

Cluster 5
Climate, Energy, Mobility

In Horizon 2020 these were separate clusters but climate, energy and mobility have been merged into one to create synergies that contribute to the general goal of climate neutrality by 2050.

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

Cluster 6 wants to achieve a transformative change of the EU economy and society by focusing on reducing environmental degradation, halt and reverse the decline of biodiversity and on better manage natural resources while meeting the EU’s climate objectives and ensuring food and water security.

Joint Research Center (JRC)

The Joint Research Centre is the European Commission's science and knowledge service. Its mission is to support EU policies with independent, evidence-based, scientific and technical support throughout the whole policy cycle.

Testimonial

Luciad - Geospatial software for mission-critical operations

Founded in 1999, Luciad serves clients in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Though it recently was acquired by Hexagon Geospatial, they kept an agile SME mindset. Thousands of end users work directly with Luciad’s geospatial applications, and major systems integrators (think Airbus Defense and Space, Lufthansa Systems, NATO, Thales…) incorporate its software in their own products.

NCP Flanders went to Leuven to interview Frederic Houbie, the Research Projects Manager at Luciad, about how he sees Horizon 2020. Luciad is a partner in the MARISA project, which is a collaborative RIA project submitted to an ICT call topic.

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Horizon 2020

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