GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

Horizon Europe is the European Union (EU) funding programme for the period 2021 – 2027, which targets the sectors of research and innovation. The programme’s budget is around € 95.5 billion, of which € 5.4 billion is from NextGenerationEU to stimulate recovery and strengthen the EU’s resilience in the future, and € 4.5 billion is additional aid.

In order to be eligible, the applicants must be:

• A natural person or a legal entity (such as universities, research organisations, SMEs, start-ups or NGOs, except public administrations) and
• located in one of the EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories, (OCTs) or Associated Countries to Horizon Europe.
• Winners both from the Challenge and the Impact Prizes, of previous editions of the European Social Innovation Competition are NOT eligible.
• Applicants that have already received an EU or Euratom prize CANNOT receive a second prize for the same activities.

Additionally:

• Entities without legal personality
• EU bodies — EU bodies (with the exception of the European Commission Joint Research Centre) can NOT apply.

Third countries currently negotiating association agreements to Horizon Europe

• Applicants from countries with ongoing negotiations may participate in the call and can receive a prize if the Horizon Europe association agreement with the third country concerned applies at the time when the award decision is taken.

Eligible activities Eligible applications are the ones set out in section 2 above and must respect the following eligibility conditions:

• Proposed solutions that harm the environment or social welfare are NOT eligible
• The proposed solutions must relate to ongoing (even in an early phase) or completed initiatives started after 11 December 2019.

In the case of ongoing activities, only work achieved by the submission deadline will be considered for the prize. An application can include different initiatives from the same applicant (e.g. projects run by different departments).