2023.06.29. – 4 min read
The Horizon Europe Program is a funding programme of the EU, boosting EU’s growth, safety, healthcare system, competitiveness, and growth in overall. With the utilisation of its budget of 95.5 billion EUR, aims to develop research and innovation all over Europe in multiple fields of discipline. In the frame of this post, we aim to clarify what the aim of the EC with Pillar II is, to introduce the topics EU approaches to tackle global challenges and European industrial competitiveness.
The EU Horizon Europe program is divided into three pillars. Pillar I Excellent Science covers activities related to fundamental research and Pillar III Innovative Europe fosters the commercialisation of research results and is dedicated to improving Europe’s innovation ecosystem. Pillar II, is divided into six clusters: Cluster 1: Health; Cluster 2: Culture, Creativity & Inclusive Society; Cluster 3: Civil Security for Society; Cluster 4: Digital, Industry & Space; Cluster 5: Climate, Energy & Mobility; Cluster 6: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture & Environment. These clusters represent the main fields, EU is approaching to reach its final goal of tackling global challenges and industrial competitiveness. In the frame of the current work programme, for the years of 2023-2024, the EU invests already around €13.5 billion, to support industrial competitiveness, especially to foster green and digital transitions for our societies and economies. Besides these fields, it aims to foster security, resilience and sustainable recovery from the effects of the covid-19 pandemic. These work program clusters contain calls for proposals to answer for Europe’s challenges with regards:
Cluster 1: Health: This cluster has concrete calls to achieve a healthier society: staying healthy; living and working in health-promoting environment; tackling diseases and reducing disease burden; developing an innovative, sustainable, and high-quality healthcare; unlocking the full potential of new tools, technologies, and digital solutions for a healthy society; maintaining an innovative and globally competitive health industry.
Cluster 2: Culture, Creativity & Inclusive Society: the calls for proposals within this cluster target democracy and governance, foster European cultural heritage and the emergence of cultural and creative industries, and to support social and economic transformations.
Cluster 3: Civil Security for Society: The calls launched in the frame of this cluster aim to achieve to better protect the EU and its citizens against crime and terrorism; provide effective management of EU external borders; create a protected infrastructure; increased cybersecurity; a disaster-resilient society for Europe; and strengthened security research and innovation.
Cluster 4: Digital, Industry & Space: This cluster aims at fostering climate neutral, circular and digitised production; increased autonomy in key strategic value chains for resilient industry; world-leading data and computing technologies; digital and emerging technologies for competitiveness and fit for the green deal program; open strategic autonomy in developing, deploying and using global space based infrastructures, services, applications and data; a human-centered and ethical development of digital and industrial technologies.
Cluster 5: Climate, Energy & Mobility: the calls within this cluster focus on the development of climate sciences, for cross-sectoral solutions for the climate transition; sustainable, secure, and competitive energy supply, efficient, sustainable and inclusive energy use; clean, competitive solutions for all transport mode; and to ensure safe, resilient transport and smart mobility services for passengers and good.
Cluster 6: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture & Environment: the calls for proposals within this cluster aim at fostering biodiversity and ecosystem services; fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food systems from primary production to consumption; circular economy and bioeconomy sectors; clean environment and zero pollution; land, oceans and water for climate action; achieving a resilient, inclusive, healthy and green rural, coastal and urban communities; innovative governance, environmental observations and digital solutions in support of the Green Deal.
These clusters aim to dedicate specific attention to support a healthy wellbeing of citizens, digital and green transition of SMEs by fostering research and innovation in digitalisation, developing digital technologies (the budget for the development of core digital technologies is 3.6 billion1 EUR in 2023- 24), that support the advancement of climate change to lead to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to the changing climate.
Further information is available through the following links:
Horizon Work Programmes: https://research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/funding/funding-opportunities/funding-programmes-and-open-calls/horizon-europe/horizon-europe-work-programmes_en
Horizon Europe Work Programme 2023-2024, General introduction: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/docs/2021-2027/horizon/wp-call/2023-2024/wp-1-general-introduction_horizon-2023-2024_en.pdf
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