The Horizon Papers

What research will Horizon Europe, the EU's €95.5 billion R&D programme, fund? The answers are detailed in the Work Programmes the Commission started publishing in June 2021, but a new round of draft documents are becoming available.

Below, you can find links to all the official Work Programmes for 2021-2022, plus the leaked, draft versions that Science|Business started publishing earlier in January 2021. New, unapproved drafts for the 2023-2024 work programmes were also leaked recently.

Over the past year, Science|Business has tracked the evolution of draft Work Programmes throughout lengthy negotiations between the Commission and Member States.

2023-24 Work Programmes

• Digital, industry, space: January 2022
• Health: March 2022
• Civil security for society: January 2022
• MSCA: March 2022

2021-22 Work Programmes

• General introduction: January 2020, March 2021*
• General annexes: November 2020, January 2021, March 2021*
• Annex 2: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
• Annex 3: Research Infrastructures, March 2021*
• Strategic plan: November 2020, January 2021
• Model grant agreement: December 2020, February 2021
• Proposal template
• European Research Council: Final work programme 
• Widening and European Research Area
• The European Innovation Council: November 2020, March 2021*
• Research missions: February 2021, March 2021*
• Digital, Industry, Space 
• Digital, industry and space cluster: December 2020 version, February 2021, March 2021, March 2021 version 2
• Health cluster: October 2020; January 2021, March 2021*
• Climate, energy, and mobility: November 2020, February 2021, February 2021 version 2*
• Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment: December 2020, April 2021
• Culture, creativity and inclusive society: October 2020, March 2021*
• Civil security for society: September 2020, October 2020, January 2021*
• Missions: April 2021*
• Euratom: February 2021*
• Slides from meeting of the Shadow Strategic Configuration

You can download our 120-page analysis and explanation of the research programme in our own: "Horizon Europe: The Essential Guide."

The official Horizon Europe Work Programmes for 2021-2022 are available on the Commisison's funding & tenders portal.

Editor’s note: This page has been updated 17 March 2022 to add draft work programmes for 2023 and 2024