Horizon 2020: Commission proposes €80 billion investment in research and innovation, to boost growth and jobs
Dec 1, 2011
The European Commission has presented on 30 November 2011 a package of measures to boost research, innovation and competitiveness in Europe. Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn has announced Horizon 2020, an €80 billion1 programme for investment in research and innovation. Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou has put forward a Strategic Innovation Agenda for the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), which will receive €2.8 billion of funding under Horizon 2020. In parallel, Vice-President Antonio Tajani has announced a complementary new programme to boost competitiveness and innovation in SMEs, with an additional budget of €2.5 billion. The funding programmes run from 2014 to 2020.
For the first time, Horizon 2020 brings together all EU research and innovation funding under a single programme. It focuses more than ever on turning scientific breakthroughs into innovative products and services that provide business opportunities and change people’s lives for the better. At the same time it drastically cuts red tape, with simplification of rules and procedures to attract more top researchers and a broader range of innovative businesses.
International cooperation will also be further promoted in Horizon 2020, in order to strengthen the EU's excellence and attractiveness in research, to tackle global challenges jointly and to support EU external policies.
Information sources:
Horizon 2020 Press Release of the European Commission
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/11/1475&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en
Horizon 2020 Memo to the Press Release of the European Commission
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/11/848&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en
Horizon 2020 Website
http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020/index_en.cfm
Presentation on Horizon 2020
http://prezi.com/1fogw2zvbiek/horizon-2020-officialversion/?auth_key=affe016b17ca2bf0d96d1d4a44f6a6ad3bb6bd63
Innovation Union
http://ec.europa.eu/innovation-union
Europe 2020
http://ec.europa.eu/europe2020
European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT)
http://eit.europa.eu
Time line for Horizon 2020
http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020/index_en.cfm?pg=h2020-timeline
Calendar of events
http://ec.europa.eu/research/horizon2020/index_en.cfm?pg=h2020-events
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