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09 Apr 20253 min read

EU Horizon Programme

  • Overview of the Horizon Europe programme on Wikipedia: Horizon Europe - Wikipedia
  • United Kingdom (1 January 2024) Associated to the entire programme, with the only exception of the European Innovation Council fund
    • Association to Horizon Europe is the closest form of cooperation with non-EU countries, which allows entities of associated countries to participate in programme actions on equal terms with entities of EU countries. It is covered in Article 16 of the Horizon Europe Regulation
  • Predecessor programme: Horizon 2020 (2014 to 2020; FP8 i.e. 8th Funding Programme)
    • provided ~€80 billion of funding - an increase of 23 per cent on the previous phase
    • ERC is a component of H2020: funded 6,707 research projects worth a total of €13.3 billion. From 2013 to 2020, European Research Council assigned to UK scientists €1.7bn in grants (more than any other country)
  • Programmes running in successive 7-year spans are The Framework Programmes

Associated countries to Horizon Europe

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom left the European Union on 31 January 2020 and is therefore no longer a Member State. The United kingdom is associated to Horizon Europe as of 1 January 2024, as announced in the Joint Statement between the European Union and the United Kingdom of 7 September 2023.

This means that entities located in the United Kingdom can participate in project consortia under similar conditions as EU Member States from the 2024 work programme onwards. Entities from the United Kingdom have access to calls for proposals under the entire Horizon Europe Framework Programme, with the exception of the EIC Fund under the EIC Accelerator.

Cooperation between European and UK entities under Horizon Europe predates 2024. The UK entities that took part in calls for proposals for the years 2021, 2022 and 2023 benefitted from a transitional arrangement that allowed them to apply and be evaluated as other potential beneficiaries under Horizon Europe calls. However, in order to be eligible for EU funding, there needs to be an association agreement in place. In practice, this means that in most cases UK entities were able to continue cooperation within Horizon Europe research consortia while obtaining funding under the UK Guarantee.

Specific questions relating to the participation of UK entities are answered on the Q&A of the Funding & Tender Portal, as well as through the Q&A accompanying the Joint Statement.

The United Kingdom will be associated by means of a Protocol to the Trade and Cooperation Agreement as of 1 January 2024.

Full list (excl. UK):

Relevant Ongoing EU Horizons Projects

  • Meetween
  • UTTER
  • AI Boost
  • TrustLLM
  • Eloquence
  • Extra Brain - mostly about neuromorphic implementation of NNs (e.g. for energy efficiency) has a branch on multimodality

Others - less relevant:

EuroHPC

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