Horizon 2020

2020 (in English and in Switzerland: Horizon 2020) is an EU funding program for research and innovation, announced by the European Commission. It is scheduled to begin in 2014 and run until 2020.

Horizon 2020 brings together the previous research framework programs and the Framework Programme for Competitiveness and Innovation ( CIP), as well as the programs of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology ( EIT).

Focus

The three priorities of the program are scientific excellence, Industrial Leadership and Societal challenges. These priorities correspond to those of the Europe 2020 strategy.

Resources

By combining the equipment significantly higher from the originally planned 87 billion euros compared to the 7th Research Framework Programme (50.5 billion euros) was established by the Commission. After the negotiations on the budget of the European Union, however, the budget was 70.2 billion euros gekürzt.Berücksichtigt to the inflation growth since 2011, one comes to the amount of EUR 79'271 million that are available to the program from 2014.