Horizon 2020 Projects

Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn has held a meeting with the Argentine Minister for Science, Technology and Innovative Production, Dr Lino Barañao, encouraging the state to participate in Horizon 2020.

Pakistan’s science minister and chairman of the country’s Science Foundation have called on researchers to better understand the needs of the science community and to look to Horizon 2020 for funding.

The Strategic International Research and Innovation Cooperation group has been discussing its plans for Horizon 2020 with an increase in global collaboration high on the organisation’s agenda.

A change in Irish law could see the removal of restrictions banning overseas spending of research funding, opening the way for partnerships between northern and southern Ireland for the first time.

The Italian Ambassador to the United States is encouraging American-based professors to form links with his home country to help benefit from the EU’s next research and innovation funding programme.

Montenegro has outlined its ambitions under Horizon 2020 following significant success under the Seventh Framework Programme. Minister of Science Sanja Vlahovic explains her country’s future ambitions.

Professor Leonid Bobylev of the Nansen Center, St Petersburg, provides his thoughts on EU-Russia co-operation under the Seventh Framework Programme and its successor, Horizon 2020.

Sir Peter Gluckman, the chief science adviser to the prime minister of New Zealand, has congratulated the European Union in helping to bring greater global collaboration to the scientific community.

Key ideas on increasing international research collaboration in Horizon 2020 have been developed by EU’s diplomatic corps at a meeting that included European Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn.