Horizon Europe

A slight reshuffle of EU’s long-term budget and the pandemic recovery fund could put all elements of Horizon Europe on a more equal footing, Jean-Pierre Bourguignon tells Science|Business

Viewpoint: Before unleashing technology sovereignty initiatives, the EU needs to define what the concept means

Too much bureaucracy. Funds go always to the same ‘well lobbied’ actors’- is one complaint from Science|Business online poll

A new platform will bring together universities, industry and policymakers to find ways to promote and better regulate innovation, the European Commission announced at the EU Research and Innovation Days meeting

The scope of Horizon Europe research missions became clearer, as mission boards handed over their final recommendations at the EU Research and Innovation Days meeting. Next comes haggling over the budgets in time for the launch in 2021  

Possibility of more funding now hangs on member states’ agreeing to let EU raise €200B from new levies and allocating some to Horizon Europe and other strategic programmes whose budgets have been cut

The council draft gives a first preview of how the money for Horizon Europe will be divided between its different components. With €758M less than the European Commission proposed, all areas apart from nuclear research face cuts

Industry is cool on EU’s technology sovereignty push, warning that it could limit access to international markets