EU support to research & innovation increases with additional €500 million for Horizon Europe

The European Commission allocated an additional €500 million to Horizon Europe, the EU’s flagship research and innovation programme, for 2026 and 2027. With this additional amount, the total budget reaches now around €14.8 billion for the two years.

The two new horizontal calls are:

1. Transformative Change Towards a Nature-Positive Economy and Society, with a budget of €237 million;
2. Bridging Actions 2027, with a total financing of €260 million.

1. The Nature-Positive call will fund 11 research and innovation actions supporting the EU’s biodiversity goals and help meet the 10% biodiversity spending target set out in the Horizon Europe Strategic Plan 2025-2027.

2. The Bridging Actions 2027 call will prepare the ground for the EU’s next research and innovation programme, Horizon Europe 2028-2034, and its links with the future European Competitiveness Fund. It introduces the innovation to investment journey to better connect research with market deployment.
Sixteen actions under this call will support advanced technologies with strong commercial potential, tackling topics such as EU AI Media Platform, a modular multilingual public-interest infrastructure for European news and audiovisual media. Autonomous Drive Ambition Cities; Research and technology infrastructures as strategic assets for talent to Choose Europe and Advanced scaling frameworks New European Bauhaus

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