About Horizon Europe    

Horizon Europe (HE) is the 9th European Union’s flagship research and innovation programme for the period of 2021-2027.  

Horizon Europe is the EU’s main financial instrument for research and innovation, with a budget of €95.5 billion. Covering all major scientific and technological disciplines, it promotes scientific excellence, addresses global challenges and enhances European innovation, thereby strengthening research and technological capabilities, meeting societal needs  and driving economic growth.  The 27 European member states  participate in HE as well as 19  associated countries (such as Israel).  

Horizon Europe is structured into four main pillars: 

1. Excellent Science: 

• European Research Council (ERC): Provides attractive, long-term funding to support excellent investigators and their research teams to pursue ground-breaking and ambitious research. 

• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA): Focuses on researchers’ training through international, interdisciplinary and intersectoral mobility. 

• Research Infrastructures: Develops, supports and opens national and pan- European research infrastructures. 

2. Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness: 

This pillar is divided into six thematic clusters, in which the submission is in a framework of a consortium:  

1. Health 

2. Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Society 

3. Civil Security for Society 

4. Digital, Industry and Space 

5. Climate, Energy and Mobility 

6. Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture, and Environment 

3. Innovative Europe: 

• European Innovation Council (EIC): Supports innovators, entrepreneurs, small companies and scientists with bright ideas and the ambition to scale up internationally. 

• European Innovation Ecosystems: Connects regional and national innovation actors. 

• European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT): Enhances Europe’s ability to innovate. 

Cross-Cutting Features 

• Missions: Large-scale efforts to address major societal challenges in which the submission is in a framework of a consortium:  

1. Adaptation to climate change  

2. Cancer  

3. Restore our ocean, seas and waters by 2030  

4. 100 climate-neutral and smart cities by 2030 

5. “A Soil Deal for Europe”  

6. New European Bauhaus 

4. Widening participation and strengthening the European Research Area

1. Widening participation and spreading excellence
2. Reforming and enhancing the European R&I system

Partnerships: There are currently 49 running partnerships under the programme covering all Pillar 2 cluster areas. The partnerships appear in three formations: joint undertaking, co-funded, and co-programmed. The European Commission is scheduled to launch 10 new partnerships in 2025. 

Who can participate in Horizon Europe? 

Horizon Europe encourages participation by a wide range of stakeholders, including universities, research organizations, businesses (including SMEs), non-profits and public authorities in 27 EU Member States and countries associated to Horizon Europe.

Therefore, any organization registered in Israel can participate in the programme and benefit from R&I cooperation and European funding.