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)