HORIZON EUROPE 2021 €100 BILLION RESEARCH AND INNOVATION PROGRAMME 2027

HORIZON EUROPE

HORIZON EUROPE 2021 - 2027 IS THE COMING FRAMEWORK FOR RESEARCH & INNOVATION FOR 100 BILLION EUROS

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THE COMMISSION'S PROPOSAL FOR HORIZON EUROPE

The Commission has published its proposal for Horizon Europe, an ambitious €100 billion research and innovation programme that will succeed Horizon 2020.

The proposal was made as part of the EU's proposal for the next EU long-term budget, the multiannual financial framework (MFF).

Various building blocks were taken into account including the interim evaluation of Horizon 2020, the Lab-Fab-App report (informally the Lamy report), foresight studies and various other reports.

Legal texts, factsheets and video

legal texts and factsheets for Horizon Europe factsheet about research and innovation in the new EU budget (French and German versions also available video explaining the aims of Horizon Europe

The EU institutions reached a provisional agreementon Horizon Europe on 20 March 2019. The European Parliament endorsed the provisional agreement on 17 April 2019.

APOLLO 11 - Inspired by the Apollo 11 mission to put a man on the moon, the European R&I missions aim to deliver solutions to some of the greatest challenges facing our world, such as cancer, climate change, healthy oceans, climate-neutral cities and healthy soil and food.

At the occasion of the Informal Council for Research Ministers in Helsinki, Finland, Commissioner Carloc Moedas announced the appointment of five prominent experts to chair the mission boards, which will propose targets and timelines to design the specific missions.

PURSUING A MISSION ORIENTED POLICY APPROACH

Horizon Europe will incorporate policy missions to ensure the effectiveness of research and innovation funding by pursuing clearly defined targets.

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

MISSION BOARD CHAIRS

The Commission is established five ‘mission boards’. Their first deliverable will be to propose concrete targets and timelines for each mission by the end of 2019. They will be chaired by the following outstanding individuals who will contribute with their experience, authority and credibility:

1. Ms Connie Hedegaard, former European Commissioner for Climate Action, for the mission on ‘Adaptation to Climate Change including Societal Transformation’

2. Professor Harald zur Hausen, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, for the mission on ‘Cancer’

3. Mr Pascal Lamy, former Trade Commissioner and Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, for the mission on ‘Healthy Oceans, Seas, Coastal and Inland Waters’

4. Professor Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, former Mayor of Warsaw, for the mission on ‘Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities’

5. Mr Cees Veerman, former Dutch Agriculture Minister, for the mission on ‘Soil Health and Food’.

REPORTS AND MATERIALS THAT SHAPED THE PROPOSAL

Evaluating Horizon 2020

To make an effective proposal, the Commission built on what has been learned from Horizon 2020.

Communication on the interim evaluation of Horizon 2020, adopted 11 January 2018 outlines views on how the impact of a successor research and innovation investment programme could be maximised Horizon 2020 Evaluation:

Results of the interim evaluation of Horizon 2020, input studies and evaluation methods LAB – FAB – APP: Investing in the European future we want:

Report of the independent high level group, led by Pascal Lamy, on maximising the impact of EU research and innovation programmes

Mission-oriented policy

Mission-Oriented Research & Innovation in the EU: A problem solving approach to innovation-led growth. This report is the result of Professor Mariana Mazzucato's academic reflections based on her research with input from internal and external stakeholders of the European Commission.

Presentation on mission-oriented research and innovation policy: Outlines some of the main findings of the report by Professor Mariana Mazzucato

Analysis report: responses to the call for feedback on mission-oriented research and innovation in the European Union

More studies and reports on missions

Foresight scenarios

BOHEMIA is an extensive, systematic, multi-year study that set out various future scenarios and recommendations for research and innovation policy.

Economic rationale

Analysis to set out the economic rationale for public R&I investments and their impact on growth and jobs carried out by the Commission.

Involving citizens in setting priorities for the next framework programme

Report by the Democratic Society on involving citizens in the next framework programme

Report of the high level group on the European Innovation Council

Europe is back: Accelerating breakthrough innovation recommendations on how a European Innovation Council (EIC) should be set up to fund and nurture breakthrough innovation.