The report showcases 15 EU-funded projects promoting sustainable aquatic foods to improve food security while protecting aquatic ecosystems.

European Commission (July 2026)

Cultural and Creative Industries are key to innovation and employment but need stronger R&I support and cross-border collaboration to overcome market fragmentation and build EU-wide innovation ecosystems.

European Commission (July 2026)

Democracy, the rule of law, and effective public institutions are core requirements for EU enlargement. They are essential not only for accession but also for ensuring stability, security, and sustainable development across Europe.

European Commission (June 2026)

Biotechnology is today a strategic priority for Europe. This CORDIS report shows 10 EU projects innovating regenerative medicine, personalised therapies and advanced health technologies.

European Commission (May 2026)

The CORDIS Results Pack presents 10 EU-funded projects delivering practical tools, technologies, and models to support the transition to sustainability, climate neutrality, and a zero-pollution, resilient future.

European Commission (April 2026)

The CORDIS Results Pack highlights nine projects showcasing how innovative SMEs contribute to European society through technology, economic growth, and social impact. It emphasizes their key role in competitiveness, the need for support to scale internationally, and the importance of programmes like Eurostars-3 in addressing existing gaps. Supported under Horizon Europe and the Eureka Network, these projects aim to develop new products, processes, and services to strengthen Europe’s global competitiveness.

European Commission (April 2026)

The Cultural Heritage Cloud is an EU initiative that aims to create a digital infrastructure to foster collaboration between cultural heritage institutions and professionals. The project integrates with other European platforms and uses advanced technologies to support the enhancement of cultural heritage.

European Commission (March 2026)

The EU Mission “Restore our Ocean and Waters” aims to protect and restore Europe’s oceans, seas and waters by 2030, promoting a sustainable marine and freshwater environment. Based on research and innovation and aligned with the European Green Deal, the mission pursues three main objectives: protect and restore aquatic ecosystems, prevent and eliminate water pollution, develop a sustainable circular, zero-carbon blue economy.

European Commission (March 2026)

As the previous editions, the Africa Initiative IV represents another step forward iin strengthening R&I cooperation between Europe and Africa.

European Commission (February 2026)

The ASEAN Initiative is part of Horizon Europe, designed to strengthen EU-ASEAN cooperation in science, technology, and innovation.

European Commission (February 2026)

The document offers supplementary guidance on the Horizon Europe Gender Equality Plan (GEP) eligibility criterion, aiming to improve compliance and support effective ex-post checks. Following pilot checks and stakeholder consultations, the criterion’s wording was revised for legal clarity and easier compliance, with changes applied retroactively to calls from 2022 onward.

European Commission (January 2026)

This CORDIS Results Pack showcases 12 EU-funded projects promoting nature-based solutions in agriculture to address biodiversity loss, climate change and pollution. By highlighting sustainable farming approaches such as agroecology, agroforestry and organic farming, it demonstrates how scaling up NbS can strengthen resilient, sustainable agri-food systems and contribute to food security and climate resilience.

European Commission (January 2026)

The working paper examines how the concept of the Green Transition has been translated into the design and implementation of EU Research and Innovation Framework Programmes, focusing on the shift from Horizon 2020 to Horizon Europe. Using a transition theory perspective and empirical evidence, it assesses directional changes and effectiveness, contributing to improved R&I policy programming, policy learning, and the development of evaluation frameworks and methods.

European Commission (December 2025)

Launched after the 2022 UfM Ministerial Declaration, the Mediterranean Initiative strengthens cooperation between the EU and Southern Mediterranean countries. Part of the Horizon Europe 2023–2024 Work Programme, it features around 37 topics and a budget of €320 million to advance joint research and innovation.

European Commission (November 2025)

The booklet outlines Africa Initiative II under Horizon Europe, which allocates about €300 million to 58 projects involving European and African partners. The initiative supports the AU-EU Innovation Agenda, focusing on green transition, clean energy, food security, sustainable agriculture, digitalisation, and research capacity development.

European Commission (November 2025)

Despite the progress of Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe still requires improvements in gender equality in research and innovation in Europe. The main objectives are to increase female participation, integrate the gender dimension into projects and expand equality policies to other forms of discrimination as well. The Commission is addressing these challenges through Horizon Europe and relevant EU strategies.

European Commission (October 2025)

Transatlantic research cooperation has led to critical new discoveries and opened new economic opportunities. This CORDIS Results Pack showcases the strength of research collaboration between the European Union and the United States across 13 EU-funded projects, which are bringing benefits to citizens on both sides of the Atlantic. The European Union and United States partnership is one the world’s most important bilateral relationships, indispensable for global security and prosperity. This Results Pack highlights the opportunities and benefits for U.S. researchers in advancing excellent science by cooperating in EU-funded projects. This international cooperation greatly expands researchers’ perspectives, advances scientific knowledge and leads to useful real-world applications.

European Commission (October 2025)

This analysis goes beyond Horizon Europe’s TRL monitoring requirements, examining TRL distribution, progression in programme areas, and beneficiary involvement at different stages. It concludes with lessons for future programmes, stressing the importance of stronger investment in the latest innovation stages.

European Commission (July 2025)

Europe is developing its bioeconomy using renewable biological resources like crops, forests, and microorganisms to produce food, materials, and energy. This CORDIS Results Pack highlights 12 EU-funded projects showing benefits such as improved soil and ecosystem health, high-value bio-based products, and climate-smart, resource-efficient systems. Microbiome-based innovations support a resilient bioeconomy, modernise industry, and advance the transition to a circular, low-carbon economy.

European Commission (July 2025)

This Results Pack illustrates the application of AI in 15 EU-funded projects in areas such as biology, neuroscience and biotechnology, demonstrating how the application of AI facilitates new discoveries in science. This is key to strengthening European competitiveness.

European Commission (July 2025)

This first publication on the impact of integrating social sciences in Horizon Europe illustrates how they have integrated well into the programme, providing greater impact to R&I results. Overall, the integration of social sciences is well under way, but more focused efforts are needed for the future.

European Commission (July 2025)

AI is a set of technologies that has an all-encompassing impact on our lives. Its characteristics make it transformative for research and innovation. The MLE aims to facilitate the exchange of information, experiences and lessons learned, as well as identify good practices for national AI policies in science.

European Commission (July 2025)

The text explores the growing impact of AI in transforming science, prompting the EU to launch strategic initiatives. Member States are at different levels of preparedness, despite facing similar challenges. To support alignment, the EU has launched a mutual learning exercise to share best practice and guide national policies on AI in science.

European Commission (June 2025)

AI promises to revolutionise scientific discovery, making it faster and more accessible. Flexible, long-term policies are needed from the EU, with investment from above and experimentation from below. Ethical governance, FAIR data and sound infrastructure are crucial elements.

European Commission (June 2025)

The report presents the results of the Mutual Learning Exercise (MLE) Research Careers, which has seen experts from 16 European countries work to increase the attractiveness and sustainability of research careers and enable a more balanced circulation of talent across Europe. 

European Commission (May 2025)

Document that shows what regions and local authorities are working towards the adaptation to climate change.

European Commission (May 2025)

The report shows CORDIS results from 10 projects funded by Horizon2020 and Horizon Europe. The projects demonstrate the need to improve food safety in marine ecosystems and help preserve their integrity.

European Commission (April 2025)

The EIC Impact Report 2025 confirms the central role of the European Innovation Council as a major investor in the deep tech sector.

European Commission (April 2025)

The third report on AI talent in science looks at the challenges and opportunities for developing, attracting and retaining AI talent in Europe. The document stresses the need for skills, appropriate training paths and continuous updating.

European Commission (April 2025)

This report presents an insight into how Horizon Europe is driving progress across the five EU Missions: Adaptation to Climate Change, Cancer, Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities, Oceans and Waters, and Soil.

European Commission (April 2025)

This document is the result of an evaluation study of the European Framework Programme for research and innovation, with a particular focus on green transition activities. The objective is to compare systematically EU R&I instruments, assessing priorities for action and active collaborations.

European Commission (April 2025)

Topic 4 report explores Public Engagement (PE) practices in ERA, illustrating approaches and methods behind successful PE initiatives implemented for years.

European Commission (March 2025)

This monitoring report presents an overview of gender equality in EU R&I programmes, particularly in Horizon Europe.

European Commission (March 2025)

This paper complements the study on Excellent Science under Horizon Europe. The analysis investigates the integration and role of Widening countries within the collaborative networks established by the European Union’s Framework Programmes.

European Commission (March 2025)

This report discusses the findings of an online survey of European citizens’ attitudes to social challenges and their willingness to participate in activities aimed at addressing these challenges. The results show clearly that European citizens want to be actively involved in solving societal challenges.

European Commission (February 2025)

The report focuses on the topic of Skills and Intersectoral, Interdisciplinary, and Interoperable Careers. The report addresses key concepts, existing regulations, policies, and support measures, lessons learned, and good practices on skills and intersectoral, interdisciplinary, and interoperable careers.

European Commission (January 2025)

The factsheet highlights EU priorities for supporting research and innovation in 2025. It focuses on funding opportunities, open innovation, infrastructure development, and human resource strategies to enhance Europe’s scientific competitiveness and address global challenges.

European Commission (November 2024)

The Biennial Monitoring Report (BMR) aims to provide a strong and continuously evolving evidence base to guide the implementation of European Partnerships and to inform strategic discussions on Horizon Europe’s new policy approach.

European Commission (November 2024)

The Executive Summary presents key findings from the “Innovative Europe” evaluation study, supporting the interim evaluation of Horizon Europe.

European Commission (September 2024)

This study assesses the effectiveness of interventions and actions supporting innovation under the Horizon Europe Framework Programme, identifying their achievements, successes, and areas for improvement.

European Commission (September 2024)

This is a supporting annex to the Innovative Europe evaluation study which presents the support to innovation provided by the EU Research and Innovation Framework Programme – Horizon Europe.

European Commission (September 2024)

This report on the Performance of European Partnerships aims to provide a strong evidence base to guide the implementation of partnerships and inform strategic discussions on the effectiveness of the new policy approach to European Partnerships in Horizon Europe and, where relevant, how it should evolve.

European Commission (September 2024)

The report offers a comprehensive overview of SME participation in Horizon Europe. It looks first at distribution and funding and participants across its work programmes and programme parts, and at whether the programme is on track with legal targets andexpectations.

European Commission (July 2024)

This brochure showcases 14 European funded Mission projects that show the collaborative spirit, innovation and commitment required to address the pressing issues of climate change.

European Commission (July 2024)

This MLE aims to facilitate an exchange of information, experiences and lessons learned as well as to identify good practices in relation to national policies for AI in science.

European Commission (July 2024)

Horizon Europe was launched in April 2021 with a total budget of EUR 95.5 billion, including EUR 5.4 billion from NextGenerationEU to support the green and digital recovery from the pandemic. By the end of 2023, 45% of the budget had been committed and 23% of the payments made.

European Commission (June 2024)

This pack corresponds to Mission Ocean’s Objective 3: Make the sustainable blue economy carbon-neutral and circular. Published on 27 March, it highlights 11 EU-funded projects that demonstrate the versatility of algae and its potential to create innovative products

European Commission (April 2024)

This pack showcases projects striving for Mission Ocean’s Objective 2: Prevent and eliminate pollution. Published on 12 February, it highlights 12 EU-funded initiatives that are contributing to the cleaning of aquatic ecosystems, paving the way for a thriving ocean.

European Commission (April 2024)

This pack relates to Mission Ocean’s Enabler 1: Digital Ocean and Water Knowledge System. Published on 23 January, it spotlights 13 EU-funded research projects, emphasising their crucial role in ocean observing for sustainable ocean management.

European Commission (April 2024)

The plan sets out three key strategic orientations for EU’s research and innovation funding for the last three years of the programme (2025-2027): Green transition; Digital transition; A more resilient, competitive, inclusive and democratic Europe.

European Commission (March 2024)

This report provides an overview of the impacts delivered by the innovators funded by the European Innovation Council (EIC), a €10 billion programme of the European Union to identify, support and scale up breakthrough technologies and deeptech start-ups.

European Commission (March 2024)

In July 2023, the EC published a stakeholder survey aimed at gathering insights from experts in the road transport community regarding the status of CCAM in Europe. The survey was structured according to four main themes related to CCAM: 1) potential and impact, 2) expectations, 3) governance and 4) readiness.

European Commission (February 2024)

This thematic report addresses the question of how to use multi-level governance (MLG) approaches to the implementation of EU missions. The report provides a short background sketch of the MLG concept and discusses the related approaches and challenges with its application in mission-oriented policies.

European Commission (January 2024)

The publication is the report of a foresight study aimed at supporting the development of the Strategic Plan of Horizon Europe (2025-2027) with early-stage strategic intelligence and sense-making contributions – issues, trends, perspectives, ideas – that could contribute novel elements to the processes of strategic planning.

European Commission (December 2023)

This report has been prepared in the context of the Mutual Learning Exercise (MLE) on research and innovation foresight (R&I foresight), a process led by the European Commission DG RTD. The report aims to identify and discuss good practices in the use of foresight for smart specialisation, missions and European partnerships.

European Commission (November 2023)

Communication, dissemination & exploitation what is the difference and why they all matter.

European Commission (September 2023)

Social media is an effective tool that allows you to communicate about your research at low-cost. Find out how to make the most of this communication tool to enhance your project and its results.

European Commission (September 2023)

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)