H2020

Objectives

Open to everyone, H2020 aims at securing Europe’s global competitiveness by ensuring that Europe produces world-class science and remove barriers to innovation in 22 areas such as key enabling technologies, ICT research & innovation, energy or health.

The common view of the EU Institutions is that the Framework Programmes for R&I have a high EU added value and that the implementation of the current Programme is largely a success.

Impact assessment

Learn more about the impact assessment here.

Looking at the key findings of the 2018 Horizon Europe interim evaluation, the commission highlighted that ‘Horizon 2020 is attractive and relevant’. It offers ‘unique collaboration and networking opportunities’ and attracts newcomers who represents more than a half of the H2020 participants compared to the previous Framework Programme 7 (FP7). It underlined that Horizon 2020 is on track to contribute significantly to the creation of jobs and growth  and added that ‘the evaluations of Horizon 2020-supported partnership initiatives show how effective they are in leveraging significant additional private and public funding and in aligning R&I priorities across Europe’.

See the key figures on H2020 projects here.

Strategic areas