EU Programmes
Horizon 2020
In 2015, Ukraine became an associate member of the European Union Framework Programme for Research and Innovation "Horizon 2020". This membership provided the Ukrainian participants with a status equal tщ their European partners, as well as opened up opportunities for influencing the content of the Programme.
Horizon 2020 is the largest European Union framework programme for funding science and innovation with a total budget of around 80 billion euros, designed for 2014-2020.
The programme focuses on three main objectives:
- making Europe an attractive location for world-class scholars;
- promoting the development of innovation and competitiveness of European industry and business;
- using science to solve the most acute problems of modern European society.
According to these objectives, the programme is divided into three main pillars:
1. "Excellent Science", open to high-quality individual and team research projects in all fields, including humanitarian ones;
2. "Industrial Leadership", which funds the development of new technologies and materials, including ICT, and space exploration; within this area financial instruments are available for introducing innovations in SMEs;
3. "Societal Challenges", with a wide range of research projects: from improving the quality of transport, food, health and safety to European identity and cultural heritage.