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With the arrival of 2020, the decade of the 2010s has come to an end, and with it the most ambitious European research and innovation funding program enters its final year. Horizon 2020, the European Union (EU) seven-year plan kickstarted in 2014, is making way for Horizon Europe. This successor program will cover the EU research and innovation strategy between 2021 and 2027, and is poised for transition after a provisional agreement was reached last April between the Council of the EU and the colegislators.
But within this provisional agreement, the final budget—which the European commission proposed to be around €100 billion (more than $111 billion US), a sizeable increase from the €80 billion (more than $89 billion US) that was previously budgeted for Horizon 2020 and about 1.3 percent of the EU total budget—is still not clear. If Horizon Europe’s budget is finalized in this ...
