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Fig. 1-33: Concentration of funding amongst institutions (universities/higher education institutions and non-
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Note: the non-university research institutes only cover the 50 institutions receiving the most funds. Together, these 50 receive 92.8% of all funding 
awarded to this type of institution.
Source: Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) data, own calculations.

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experts has already been established, which is re-
sponsible for this development process, from mission 
areas to the specific mission programmes, with pre-
cisely defined targets. For most of the Missions this 
process is taking place during the course of 2020. 
The aim of each Mission is then to deliver tangible 
results with defined objectives for society, and to 
create public benefit for Europe. 
There are a few changes compared with Horizon 
2020, the eighth EU Research Framework Programme 
which runs to the end of 2020. The most important 
changes are:
• restructuring of the content while maintaining the 
pillar structure;
• establishment of the European Innovation Council 
(EIC);
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• new association options for industrialised non-EU 
countries;
• introduction of Missions;
69 The basic principles of the EIC were already created in autumn 2019, during the final phase of Horizon 2020, with the EIC Pilot. 
This combines existing instruments (such as FET and the SME instrument) and adds new funding instruments (e.g. Pathfinder and 
Accelerator). The funding instruments are open to any theme, and are directed towards market-creating innovations with the 
potential to lead to radically new, pioneering products, services and processes.
70 See KoWi (2019). 
• intention to encourage greater involvement from 
citizens and from organisations of civil society;
• new approach to partnerships.
Maximum possible continuity with Horizon 2020 is 
intended for the ERC and for research infrastruc-
tures. With the “Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions 
(MSCA)”, the aim is to create closer synergies in fu-
ture with other programmes. MCSA Fellows will also 
be allowed to participate in training programmes of 
the Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs) 
of the European Institute of Innovation and Technol-
ogy (EIT).
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The following section outlines three important 
new features: the partnerships in Pillar II, the Europe-
an Innovation Council (EIC) and the European innova-
tion ecosystem in Pillar III.
In Horizon Europe the formats and instruments 
used for implementation of public-public and pub-