The European Parliament endorsed today the provisional agreement
reached by the co-legislators on Horizon Europe, the EU research
and innovation programme for the next budget period from 2021 to
2027. The European Commission presented its proposal for Horizon
Europe in June 2018. Carlos Moedas, Commissioner for
Research, Science and Innovation, said:
“I welcome today's vote at the European Parliament. Investing
in research and innovation is investing in Europe's future, in
knowledge and new solutions. That is why we set a new level of
ambition to deepen Europe's innovation capability, provide
lasting prosperity and preserve our global competitiveness.
Horizon Europe is the most ambitious research and innovation
programme ever.
The European Parliament showed today that it stands behind
Horizon Europe and with that behind the idea to keep the EU at
the forefront of global research and innovation. When designing
this programme we built on the achievements of Horizon 2020.
The programme will continue to drive scientific excellence
through the European Research Council and the Marie
Skłodowska-Curie fellowships and exchanges, and will benefit
from the expertise of the Joint Research Centre.
But we also took it up a notch. While only an idea a couple of
years back, we're now setting up a fully operational European
Innovation Council based on the experience of the already
successful pilot, which is funding promising
innovators. The European Innovation Council will not only
boost funding for innovation but also crucially help to create
a whole innovation system linking early research and market
application. The Commission will also launch research
missions with bold and ambitious goals to tackle issues that
affect our daily lives. I am very pleased that with today's
vote we are getting step-by-step closer to making Horizon
Europe a reality.
Background
As part of EU's next long-term budget for 2021-2027,
the Commission proposed on 7 June
2018 the next EU research and innovation programme
Horizon Europe with a proposed budged of €100 billion. In March
2019, the Council of the European Union and the European
Parliament reached a provisional agreement. The budgetary
aspects and some related horizontal provisions such as
international association of the Horizon Europe programme are
subject to the overall agreement on the EU's next long-term
budget, proposed by the Commission in
May 2018.
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