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Association to Horizon Europe is the closest form of international cooperation in Horizon Europe. Entities of Associated Countries can participate in the Horizon Europe calls under the same conditions as entities from the EU Member States and are therefore eligible for funding, unless specific limitations or conditions are laid down in the work programme and/or call topic text.
Not only EU neighbouring countries can apply for association, any country in the world with a strong research and innovation capacity that share common values with Europe can apply for association to Horizon Europe.
There are 4 categories of countries eligible for association with Horizon Europe:
Close to the start of the Association, transitional measures can be set in place, through which entities of these countries can already be included as beneficiaries in call topics. Details are mentioned in the Horizon Europe Programme Guide.
When involving stakeholders from recently associated countries (e.g. Switzerland and South Korea) in a proposal, it has been reported that a warning may appear in the Funding & Tenders Portal submission system though the eligibility conditions are met: “The call requires at least three participants from three different EU Member States or associated countries”. The European Commission confirmed that this warning is linked to the current technical configuration of the submission system and does not reflect the respective associated country status. You can always revise the Country eligibility tool on our website to revise the status of countries. If indeed the country is associated, then the warning can be ignored, provided that the final consortium complies with the minimum eligibility conditions at submission stage.
All details regarding country eligibility is compiled in the infosheet “International cooperation".
Avia-GIS is a Belgian innovative SME established in 2001. They have built research and public authority trust over the past 19 years and developed a unique, disruptive software suite - VECMAP® - that supports society to overcome one of its important health threats, the spreading of Pests of Public Health importance.
With the help of a Horizon 2020 SME Instrument Phase 2 project, they will be able to add Integrated Pest Management functionalities and go to the market. With the grant, that was an essential component of their second investment round, Avia-GIS aims at raising its revenue from the current 2 M€ to 14.2 M€ in 2024, and increase the headcount from 15 to 58.
