Essential guide: what is a Horizon Europe partnership?

12 Nov 2024 | News

A clear-cut primer to Horizon’s €24.9B industrial and public research partnerships, from the 5th edition of our Essential Guide to Horizon Europe

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Here’s a Horizon riddle for you.

Q. What do you call a research project that goes on and on and on?

A. A partnership.

Well, to a close Horizon observer, it can look that way at times.

“Partnerships” are big, established consortia that organise research and innovation funding over several years on specific, high profile topics in Horizon.

There’s one to develop supercomputers, another for semiconductors, a third for global healthcare – at present, 50 of them in all, with another nine scheduled to appear over the next few years.