The trust in democratic processes around the world is decreasing as the world is facing multiple challenges causing political and economic instability. This booklet gives an overview of the projects that were selected for funding under the Horizon Europe 2022 call “Reshaping democracies” (HORIZON-CL2- 2022-DEMOCRACY-01 and 02).

European Commission (June 2023)

This factsheet reports the key data of 2 years of Horizon Europe implementation for 2021-2022. In particular on funding, proposals success rates, contribution to pillars.

European Commission (June 2023)

This report presents the results of the analysis of a portfolio of 841 EU projects – completed or ongoing – relevant to the EU Mission “Restore our Oceans and Waters by 2030”. These projects have been funded by 16 EU programmes in a period of 9 years between January 2014 and December 2022.

European Commission (June 2023)

A public consultation on the past, present and future of the European Research & Innovation Framework programmes 2014-2027 ran between 30 November 2022 and 23 February 2023.

European Commission (April 2023)

This publication includes the Declaration itself as well as key messages and bios of all the speakers participating to the event. Furthermore, it includes the List of Ongoing SMRs projects co-funded by the Euratom Programme. It also provides key information about the activities under the Euratom Research and Training Work Programme 2023-2025.

European Commission (April 2023)

This factsheet on EU cooperation on Research and Innovation with the Mediterranean region (Mediterranean Initiative) will follow the model used by the african colleagues already with the African Initiative I. It aims at presenting in a succinct way the opportunities contained in the forthcoming Work Programme for 2023-2024.

European Commission (April 2023)

The Green Deal Industrial Plan aims to boost the competitiveness of Europe’s net-zero industry and to accelerate the transition to climate neutrality. The Plan is based on four pillars: (1) a predictable and simplified regulatory environment; (2) faster access to funding; (3) developing skills for net-zero industry; and (4) open trade for resilient supply chains.

European Commission (March 2023)

The Critical Raw Materials Act will help to ensure that Europe has sufficient access to those materials, like rare earths, which are vital for manufacturing key technologies for the green transition.

European Commission (March 2023)

The roadmap on circular industrial technologies will address the circularity of three industrial ecosystems: construction, textiles and energy-intensive industries. These industries stand out for their resource intensity and waste generation, but also their potential for circularity thereby contributing overall to the circular economy.

European Commission (February 2023)

The STEAM approach refers to the inclusion of arts, social sciences and the humanities in STEM education, as a transdisciplinary, inclusive, future-oriented approach to learning.

European Commission (February 2023)

This policy brief sheds light on some of the current challenges causing change in our workplaces, explores how research and innovation brings clarity to the debate and proposes a new forum. ERA4FutureWork is a new action bringing together policymakers, researchers and stakeholders in order to understand and shape research in the future of work.

European Commission (February 2023)

This monitoring flash investigates the key characteristics of this population: what kind of entities they are, what programme parts attracted them the most, where they came from geographically, and whether they participated in Horizon 2020 Joint Undertakings. Finally, the flash present early evidence from the first full year of the current R&I Framework Programme, Horizon Europe.

European Commission (February 2023)

This Report addresses meanings, dimensions, models and approaches/strategies of scalability in citizen science as well as drivers, success factors and challenges of (up)scaling citizen science projects and initiatives across Europe.

European Commission (January 2023)

This booklet gives an overview of the projects that were selected for funding under the Horizon Europe 2021 call “Protecting and nurturing democracies” (HORIZON-CL2-2021-DEMOCRACY-01).

European Commission (January 2023)

The report summarises the main results and achievements of the Commission’s expert group and provides recommendations for the future support of the strategic coordinating process for partnerships.

European Commission (June 2022)

The study looks at how the programme was delivered, early results achieved and identifies barriers and drivers to deliver on the EIC pilot objectives, providing lessons learnt to improve the fully-fledged EIC in Horizon Europe.

European Commission (June 2022)

An increasing number of citizen science projects and initiatives are being implemented across Europe. This rapidly emerging mode of research and innovation shows substantial potential in terms of achieving greater societal impact and increasing trust in science, by leveraging collective societal capabilities, by enlarging the scope of the R&I, and by increasing relevance, responsiveness and transparency.

European Commission (June 2022)

This report on the Performance of European Partnerships, also known as the Biennial Monitoring Report (BMR), aims to provide a strong evidence base to guide the implementation of partnerships and to inform strategic discussions on the effectiveness of the new policy approach to European Partnerships and, where relevant, how it should evolve.

European Commission (May 2022)

The Baseline and benchmark report is one of the deliverable of the study to support the monitoring and evaluation of the Framework Programme for research and innovation along Key Impact Pathways – RTD/2019/SC/016. It is based on the work performed under Task 3, which was about defining, calculating and analysing the baseline and identifying benchmarks for each of the nine Key Impact Pathways

European Commission (April 2022)

The Indicator Methodology and Metadata Handbook is one of the deliverable of the study to support the monitoring and evaluation of the Framework Programme for research and innovation along Key Impact Pathways – RTD/2019/SC/016. It presents precise definitions & detailed methodology and data sources for each of the Key Impact Pathway indicators.

European Commission (April 2022)

Horizon Europe uses lump sum funding to reduce administration and financial errors. Lump sums make the programme simpler by removing the need to report actual costs. This document explains the advantages of lump sums and how they work in practice.

European Commission (April 2022)

This Challenge Paper provides a first overview on the Mutual Learning Exercise on Citizen Science set up by the Policy Support Facility (PSF) and DG Research and Innovation to provide practical support to Member States in relation to Topic 2 – Good Practices on Citizen Science and their Impact.

European Commission (March 2022)

This report provides background information on the Mutual Learning Exercise on Citizen Science. It is written with a science policy audience in mind and provides an introduction and details of the modus operandi for the MLE. The report first provides a brief overview of the activities that are part of the field of citizen science.

European Commission (March 2022)

This report presents a number of emerging technologies and breakthrough innovations that have been identified during a first identification process conducted in 2021 and assessed to be of high interest to the EIC given their potential for future technological, economic and social impacts. It relies on a range of inputs and the views and insights of EIC Programme Managers.

European Commission (February 2022)

The objective of this paper is to provide information on: What are the EU missions to the European Commission’s policy approach to paradigm shifts? How can they concretely contribute to the delivery of the von der Leyen Commission’s strategic priorities, in particular to the Digital and Territorial Agendas, and the European Green Deal? Which horizontal enablers will help the EU missions succeed?

European Commission (February 2022)

The ‘Horizon Europe-New European Bauhaus Nexus Report’ (2022) is an independent expert report. The report offers a set of guiding principles that can shape the goals and ambitions of the New European Bauhaus initiative.

European Commission (February 2022)

The fully-fledged European Innovation Council (EIC), launched in March 2021 under Horizon Europe, is a major new player on the innovation landscape. This report documents the results and impact of the EIC pilot phase up to 2020.

European Commission (November 2021)

This Guidance supports organisations to meet the Gender Equality Plan (GEP) eligibility criterion of the Horizon Europe Framework Programme for Research and Innovation 2021-2027.

European Commission (September 2021)

Research and innovation provide new knowledge and innovative solutions to overcome our societal, ecological and economic challenges. Horizon Europe helps researchers and top class innovators to develop and deploy their ideas.

Horizon Europe Factsheet
European Commission (February 2021)

Horizon Europe is geared towards impact to contribute to our wellbeing and prosperity. To realise its ambitious goals, they need to be translated into concrete actions. The strategic plan defines the orientations for the first four years of the programme and outlines the contributions of its various parts.

Horizon Europe Factsheet
European Commission (March 2021)

Research, science and innovation are pushing our societies and economies forward. New knowledge improves all aspects of our life. The first pillar of Horizon Europe – Excellent Science – supports frontier research and breakthrough scientific ideas, teams up the best researchers from Europe and beyond and equips them with skills and word-class research infrastructures.

Horizon Europe Factsheet
European Commission (June 2021)

The pillar ‘Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness’ is established through clusters of research and innovation activities, in order to maximise integration and synergies across the respective thematic areas while securing high and sustainable levels of impact for the Union in relation to the resources that are expended.

Horizon Europe Factsheet
European Commission (July 2021)

Through its Pillar III ‘Innovative Europe’, the programme will focus on supporting the development of disruptive and market-creating innovations and on enhancing European innovation ecosystems.

Horizon Europe Factsheet
European Commission (April 2021)

Europe needs to capitalise on its science, innovative SMEs and start-ups to compete in global markets increasingly defined by new technologies. The European Innovation Council (EIC) is Europe’s most ambitious initiative to turn science into new business and accelerate the scale-up of ’game-changing’ innovators shaping the future.

Horizon Europe Factsheet
European Commission (March 2021)

Horizon Europe’s widening actions will support those EU countries that continue to lag behind in research and innovation to increase the performance of their research and innovation systems. Actions will: support centres of excellence; establish a vibrant ecosystem; enhance capacity to access research networks; attract talents; improve skills of researchers.

Horizon Europe Factsheet
European Commission (March 2021)

Based on excellence competitive, talent-driven and open.

Horizon Europe Factsheet
European Commission (2020)

Promoting European research and innovation (R&I) values and principles allows the EU to maintain its global leadership in science and to secure its industrial sovereignty.

Horizon Europe Factsheet
European Commission (June 2021)

With Horizon Europe, the Commission reaffirms its commitment to gender equality in research and innovation. The first part of this factsheet summarises the key new provisions and requirements introduced in the Programme. The second part of this factsheet puts the focus on the new Gender Equality Plan (GEP) eligibility criterion, detailing its key elements and providing useful resources.

Horizon Europe Factsheet
European Commission (June 2021)

The challenge is for Europe to embrace open science as the modus operandi for all researchers. Open science consists in the sharing of knowledge, data and tools as early as possible in the Research and Innovation (R&I) process, in open collaboration with all relevant knowledge actors, including academia, industry, public authorities, end users, citizens and society at large.

Horizon Europe Factsheet
European Commission (June 2021)

European partnerships are initiatives where 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.

Horizon Europe Factsheet
European Commission (February 2021)

Horizon Europe removes unnecessary red tape, so that taking part in EU research and innovation will become easier than ever before.

Horizon Europe Factsheet
European Commission (March 2021)

Horizon Europe has a budget of EUR 95.5 billion for the period from 2021-2027. This includes EUR 5.4 billion from the Next Generation EU instrument, particularly to support the green and digital recovery from the COVID crisis.

Horizon Europe Factsheet
European Commission (April 2021)

This first Horizon Europe strategic plan defines the strategic orientations for our research and innovation investments over the period 2021-2024 and acts as a compass to stay on course with the political priorities of the Commission with a focus on a climateneutral and green Europe, fit for the digital age, where the economy works for the people.

European Commission (February 2021)

This report aims at providing a direct glimpse on the ideas and insights provided along the different co-design activities.

European Commission (October 2019)