Horizon 2020 Projects

The latest draft work programmes for Horizon 2020 have been announced by the European Commission.

Climate-KIC start-ups ‘Efficient City Farming’ and ‘Eternal Sun’ have won a Global Ideas Award at the Cleantech Open Global Forum in California, United States.

As the EU’s successor to FP7, Horizon 2020 ushers in a new era of science, societal focus and industrial progress that is sure to push Europe to the forefront of the global innovation race.

The LERU has congratulated the European Parliament for sending an important signal of support for research and innovation by signing off on Horizon 2020.

Funding for the next framework programme is expected to be €78.6bn in current prices after the European Parliament approved the H2020 legislation.

Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, European Commission for Research, Innovation and Science, has welcomed the European Parliament’s adoption of Horizon 2020.

Jean-Marc Nollet, the vice president of the Walloon Government in Belgium, explains his ambitions of becoming an innovation leader in Europe during the next framework programme to Horizon2020Projects.com.

Two leading EU entrepreneurs have won major awards at the annual EIT Awards in Budapest, Hungary.

The European Parliament has voted in favour of the EU’s 2014-2020 Multiannual Financial Framework.

MEPs in Strasbourg are set to vote on Horizon 2020 later today.

The Council of the European Union has formally approved the agreement with the European Parliament on the 2014 EU budget.

The Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania has welcomed the successful completion of inter-institutional negotiations regarding the 2014–2020 MFF.

For the first time since 2004, Volkswagen has topped the European Commission’s 2013 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard.

The European Commission has published its 2013 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard.

A new Eurobarometer survey has shown that more than three quarters of EU citizens think that science and technology has a positive influence on society.

An European Parliament committee has endorsed the deal struck with the Council on the reform of key regulations covering all EU funds.

The EU’s budget for 2014 has been agreed by the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament in meetings in Brussels.

The Council of the European Union and the European Parliament have begun conciliation talks on the 2014 EU budget.

The European Commission has appointed the 15 groups of independent experts to advise on priorities for Horizon 2020. The advisory groups comprise of public, private and civil society members.

Conciliation talks between the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament have begun on the 2014 EU budget.

The final day of a two-day long conference focusing on EU-Asia dialogue on nuclear safety has started in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Delegates are gathering in Athlone in Ireland to discuss how to best take advantage of the EU’s next research and innovation framework programme.

The European Commission has announced the date for the first calls for the next research and innovation framework programme.

The European Parliament has reversed the Council’s proposed cuts in research and employment expenditure planned for 2014 following a plenary vote in Strasbourg.

Leading technology entrepreneurs and start-up community pioneers have presented EU leaders with their manifesto on how Europe needs to adapt for the digital age.

EARTO and EIRMA have announced details of their Horizon 2020 event.

The Council has approved a further increase of the 2013 EU budget.

A new, single innovation indicator has been proposed by the European Commission.

The Wales Forum on Europe will launch Horizon 2020 in the Welsh capital Cardiff on 13 November 2013.

The European Commission has announced the national launch dates of Horizon 2020 across the 28 EU member states.

MEPs are set to vote on Amending Budget No. 6 later today.

The European Commission has announced details of the Horizon 2020 advisory groups ahead of the framework programme’s first calls in December.

European Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn visits the Czech capital Prague to help launch Horizon 2020 and details how the framework programme presents an important opportunity for the country to develop its RDI base.

The Council of the European Union has approved amendments to the EU budget, amounting to €2.7bn in additional contributions, based on the revision of the forecast of own resources.

Representatives from the European Commission are preparing to address leading academics from four top regional universities in Western England.

In the second national launch of Horizon 2020, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn visits Helsinki and addresses one of Europe’s innovation leaders.

The French Government have launched a new information site on Horizon 2020.

A panel of experts and ITER staff has announced that non-essential physics work and other experimental studies being conducted as part of the fusion reactor project have been postponed.

A major conference will begin in Prague tomorrow to launch the Horizon 2020 in the Czech Republic.

Following the announcement of its SME Engagement Scheme, the Scottish Funding Council shares its views on Horizon 2020 and the importance of SMEs and universities working together.