Horizon Europe

New elements in Horizon Europe

European Innovation Council: Support for innovations with potential breakthrough and disruptive nature with scale-up potential that may be too risky for private investors. This is 70% of the budget earmarked for SMEs.

Missions: Sets of measures to achieve bold, inspirational and measurable goals within a set timeframe. There are 5 main mission areas as part of Horizon Europe.

Open science policy: Mandatory open access to publications and open science principles are applied throughout the programme
Factsheet: Open science in Horizon Europe.

New approach to partnerships: Objective-driven and more ambitious partnerships with industry in support of EU policy objectives.

Missions

Horizon Europe incorporates research and innovation missions to increase the effectiveness of funding by pursuing clearly defined targets.

The Commission engaged policy experts to develop studies, case studies and reports on how a mission-oriented policy approach will work.

European partnerships

Horizon Europe supports European partnerships in which the EU, national authorities and/or the private sector jointly commit to support the development and implementation of a programme of research and innovation activities.

The goal of European partnerships is to contribute to the achievement of EU priorities, address complex challenges outlined in Horizon Europe and strengthen the European Research Area (ERA).

Programme evaluation, impact assessment and monitoring

The Commission evaluates and monitors its funding programmes to assess the progress towards achieving the programmes’ objectives and build an evidence base to improve their implementation.

Horizon Europe programme analysis and outline of the monitoring approach