The Horizon Papers

What research will Horizon Europe, the EU's new R&D programme, fund? The answers are detailed in the Work Programmes the Commission started publishing in June 2021.

Below, you can find links to all the official Work Programmes - plus the leaked, draft versions that Science|Business started publishing earlier in the year. You can also download our 120-page analysis and explanation of it all 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.

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

• 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