UK businesses can benefit from the world’s largest research and funding programme -with £80 billion available from 2021 – 2027 through Horizon Europe to help them develop ideas, innovations and further their research to power commercial opportunities and growth.
Businesses of all types and sizes can apply across the many different funding opportunities. Please do share this information widely with your clients, contacts and networks. There’s much more including the various funding streams, eligibility criteria, support and guidance on applying for research and innovation funding on the Horizon Europe Hub website.
Background
The UK is back in the world’s largest research and innovation funding programme - Horizon Europe. It means businesses of all sizes can access the £80 billion of grants, from period 2021 – 2027, available to support their research and development from early stage to launch.
This funding aims to help equip firms to turn ideas, early stage developments, new research and all forms of innovation into tangible opportunities to grow your business.
Funding is available across a wide range of sectors - so your clients, contacts and networks could benefit. Find out more on the Innovate UK website including all the available funding, and support and guidance on how to apply for it.
We know businesses look to their trusted advisors, such as accountants, financial advisors, business support services, law firms and more to help their sustainability and growth. Please do share this information widely and help more firms access the opportunities.
What is Horizon Europe?
It’s the world’s largest research and innovation funding programme – providing grants for businesses, typically to work in collaboration including with universities and other research institutions, and across Europe, to develop their ideas into commercial opportunities.
Businesses who secure Horizon Europe support benefit from:
- Funding: open to businesses of all types and sizes needing financial support to progress their research and innovation ideas into commercial success
- New international markets: find new contacts, expand your networks, and unlock new opportunities as part of multi-country consortia
- Collaboration: discover UK and international partners to jointly develop new technologies, science and innovation from early-stage to market-ready; and access specialist research capabilities in world-leading universities and institutions
From curing diseases to safeguarding cultural heritage, and whether it’s start-ups with cutting edge research goals, or established mid-sized or even multi-nationals needing a funding boost to develop products for new markets, there are opportunities.
How do businesses get involved?
Getting started:
Businesses can see whether their research and innovation goals match the many funding opportunities available, which are grouped in broad categories. There’s much more on the Horizon Europe Hub - including all the available funding, and support and guidance on how to apply for it.
New funding calls:
Potential applicants can find Horizon Europe calls (funding opportunities) open to UK-based applicants using the European Commission’s funding and tender opportunities portal. They can apply for Horizon Europe funding through the European Commission’s funding and tenders portal, where the original funding call is found. More information on how to submit applications are available on the European Commission’s website. UK researchers and businesses can now benefit from wider access to Horizon Europe funding calls for quantum and space research.
The European Commission is organising a series of information days for prospective applicants per industry. See more info here.
Dedicated UK National Contact Points develop newsletters for different industries. You can sign up to the relevant newsletters here: Horizon Europe| NCP
British Academy Pump Priming Scheme:
The “pump priming” scheme provides concrete support to those who are interested in applying to Horizon Europe. It aims to help UK entities develop collaborative activities under Horizon Europe, further strengthening UK-EU research partnerships and supporting researchers in preparing high quality Horizon Europe applications.
This initiative will offer small grants to enable UK R&D performing organisations to create and join high quality consortia, develop their project ideas, and ultimately submit high quality applications to Horizon Europe.
You can apply for a Pump Priming grant here.
