Playing a critical role in expanding Europe's horizons

Abstract

The Horizon 2020 programme is the largest and most ambitious research and innovation programme ever undertaken by the EU, which has committed to investing almost €80 billion in thousands of projects between 2014 and 2020. The Programme seeks to promote research and innovation and to boost the number of breakthroughs, discoveries and groundbreaking developments achieved in Europe, as well as to facilitate the process of taking this progress from the laboratory to the marketplace. As the means for driving economic growth and creating jobs in a bid to secure Europe’s global competitiveness, Horizon 2020 is backed by Europe’s leaders and members of the European Parliament. The critical role played by research sets it at the very heart of this programme’s investments in the future of citizens of the EU.