Fig. 1-34: Overview of the structure of Horizon Europe
Pillar I
Open Science
(25.8
billion
)
European Research
Council
Clusters:
• Health
• Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Society
• Civil Security for Society
• Digital, Industry and Space
• Climate, Energy and Mobility
• Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources,
Agriculture and Environment
European Innovation Council
Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Actions
Research
Infrastructures
European Innovation Ecosystems
Joint Research Centre (non-nuclear)
Widening Participation and spreading excellence
Widening Participation and Strengthening the European Research Area (2.1 billion)
Reforming and Enhancing the European R&I System
European Institute of Innovation
and Technology
Pillar III
Open Innovation
(13.5
billion
)
Pillar II
Global Challenges and Industrial
Competitiveness
(52.7
billion
)
Source: Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) (2020).
1. Current Trends
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lic-private partnerships (previously JPIs, ERA-Nets,
JTIs/JUs, EIT, Article 185 measures etc.) will be re-
structured under the umbrella concept of “European
Partnerships”. In future there will be three types of
partnership with greater differentiation between
them, namely: co-programmed, co-funded and insti-
tutionalised partnerships. The partnership agree-
ments between the European Union and public or
private stakeholders will play an important role in
the thematic clusters of Horizon Europe.
71
In prepa-
ration for these partnerships, the European Com-
mission carried out a consultation process in the
second half of 2019 with the member states (plus
Iceland and Norway). The 44 partnership candi-
dates
72
already identified by the Commission were
supplemented by four additional ones on the topics
of health/antibiotic resistance, sustainable cities,
shipping, and geological services. A possible new
EIT Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC)
was also identified, on the theme of “Cultural and
Creative Industries”. Altogether this makes a port-
folio of 49 partnerships for the beginning of Horizon
Europe. The report on this process
73
, published by
the European Commission on 28 January 2020, ad-
dresses all the proposals for partnerships (both
from the European Commission and from the mem-
ber states). Reference was made not only to the
consultation findings but also to aspects of the dis-
cussions with the member states represented in the
“strategic shadow committee”.
One important tool for monitoring and learning
from the current partnerships is the EU project ERA-
LEARN, coordinated by the Austrian Research Pro-
motion Agency (FFG).
74
This collects data at regular
intervals on P2P networks, joint calls and funded
R&D projects. Data and analyses of diverse aspects
of the current “partnership landscape” are published
on the ERA-LEARN web portal. Since 2019 specific
71 Based on information from:
https://www.kowi.de/en/kowi/news/horizon-europe-preparation-of-european-partnerships.aspx
72 See Niehoff et al. (2019). The report includes a list of proposed partnerships.
73 ibid.
74 ERA-LEARN: Strengthening partnership programmes in Europe;
https://www.era-learn.eu
75 See Amanatidou (2019).
“Country reports” have also been produced; the first
three of these (Poland, Austria, Spain” have already
been published. The report verifies Austria’s high
rate of participation in PPP calls for proposals (sec-
ond place after the Netherlands), with 259 projects
financed. The limited budget was mentioned as a
problematic aspect, particularly in calls on the so-
called “Grand Challenges”. According to the report,
Austrian researchers have appreciated P2Ps as an
additional source of funding, but also as a way
around the highly competitive situation in Horizon
2020, and at the same time as a preparatory step
towards Horizon Europe.
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Another new feature of Horizon Europe is the Eu-
ropean Innovation Council (EIC) in Pillar III, which is
designed to help the EU to take a leading role in pi-
oneering, market-creating innovations.
The EIC will include two complementary pro-
gramme lines:
a. “Pathfinder” for Advanced Research: The Path-
finder is based on the Future and Emerging
Technologies (FET) programmes FET Open and
FET Proactive under Horizon 2020. It will be
open to any topic, and is intended to support
high-risk and innovative technology-oriented
proposals from consortia, and also from individ-
ual applicants. For this reason Pathfinder proj-
ects in particular make it possible to take ideas
from basic research with high potential through
to a subsequent implementation phase with
support from the Accelerator.
b. “Accelerator”: The Accelerator is linked to the
SME instrument under Horizon 2020 and is de-
signed primarily to support SMEs (including
start-ups) and firms up to the scale of mid-caps
with their potentially ground-breaking and mar-
ket-generating innovations. This will be the first
time that a so-called blended finance approach
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