Horizon 2020 Projects

The European Commission has published a non-paper outlining plans to reimburse indirect costs incurred under Horizon 2020 with a flat rate. The EU’s non-profit RTOs have called for a full reimbursement.

A new fund has been launched in Wales to assist businesses and organisations in applying for Horizon 2020 funding. ‘Score Cymru’ will have a budget of £70,000.

Seán Sherlock has reaffirmed the prospect of agreeing Horizon 2020 after chairing his final meeting of the Competitiveness Council as part of his country’s Presidency.

The Northern Ireland Executive’s Department for Enterprise, Trade and Investment has released more details on the role of its Northern Ireland Horizon 2020 manager.

The Irish Minister for Research and Innovation has said that the achievement of a political agreement on Horizon 2020 remains the top priority.

The EUA has called for a reimbursement model based on the recognition of the full costs in Horizon 2020 to be retained and for the European Commission to acknowledge nationally-recognised costing methodologies.

Discussions are set to take place on Horizon 2020 as Ireland chairs its final Competitiveness Council meeting in Brussels. The two-day conference will see ministers discuss the ERA.

Christian Ehler MEP, a rapporteur for Horizon 2020, has called for the full reimbursement of costs in the EU’s next research and innovation framework programme, describing trialogue negotiations as “deadlocked”.

The Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science has urged businesses across the EU to apply for Horizon 2020 funding, describing the framework programme as having significant ‘simplification’.

InterTradeIreland’s Aidan Gough outlines how the organisation is encouraging business collaboration between Northern Ireland and Ireland, developing ‘an all-Island innovation ecosystem’.

A number of strategies encouraging increased SME participation in Horizon 2020 have been outlined at the ‘Collaborate to Innovate: Access Horizon 2020’ conference in Dublin, Ireland.

InterTradeIreland, responsible for encouraging economic and business links between Northern Ireland and Ireland, has opened a major event on Horizon 2020 in Dublin.

The European Institute of Innovation and Technology’s ICT Labs Knowledge and Innovation Community has launched a new Doctoral Training Centre in Hungary, a partnership between two leading national universities.

As Croatia nears accedence to the EU, Horizon2020projects.com talks to Željko Jovanović, Minister of Science, Education and Sports, about how the country can benefit from Horizon 2020.

The first consultative groups for Horizon 2020 in the Netherlands have been formed. The groups will scrutinise and approve the research and innovation framework’s work programmes.

Seán Sherlock has said an agreement on EU spending on research and innovation must be found by the end of the country’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

Addressing the Irish Senate, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, the Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science, outlines the breakthroughs the country has made since joining the EU, and Europe’s innovation ambitions.

The European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, has described the situation as “disastrous” if there is no agreement on the EU budget by the end of June.

Ahead of the next European Union Presidency, Horizon2020projects.com speaks to Lithuania’s Minister of Education and Science, Dainius Pavalkis, on his top priority – preparing for Horizon 2020.

Following research with Professor Martin McKee of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Dr Michael Galsworthy of University College London analyses the administrative changes to Horizon 2020.