The Horizon Papers

What research will Horizon Europe, the EU's new R&D programme, fund? When will the European Commission publish calls for grant applications? All this is in the detailed Work Programmes that the Commission has been  drafting for months.

Below you can find all the Work Programme drafts Science|Business is aware of. Some were leaked to us, as explained in this viewpoint. Some, marked here with an asterisk, were published recently by the Commission. Final versions are expected in May.

• 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 also find here below a list of our latest coverage about the draft work programmes:

• Draft programme outlines €134M plan to beef up cybersecurity research

• New details of EU’s €3.4B industrial research plan revealed in latest draft work programme

• Switzerland pencilled back into quantum plans, but no access for UK, Israel

• Israel, Switzerland and UK face exclusion from major EU quantum and space research projects

• Plans for €383.5M investment in batteries R&D detailed in draft climate work programme

• UK researchers invited to apply on ‘conditional basis’ as ERC kicks off new €1.9B funding round

• Horizon Europe to fund research tackling inequality and challenges to democracy

• Horizon Europe to fund research on genome editing in agriculture

• Horizon Europe health research in line for €948M in 2021

• EU considers tougher rules to promote gender equality in Horizon Europe

• European Research Council calls to be cut back from five to three in 2021

• Widening 2.0: draft work programme details EU plans to plug the east-west R&D gap

• EIC to award €1.5B in 2021, according to latest draft programme

• Taking wing: new features of fully-fledged EIC revealed in leaked draft

• Horizon Europe research calls to support a digital and green transition detailed in leaked drafts

• Research groups decry focus on applications in Horizon Europe health plan

• Horizon Europe draft work programmes leak online