European Commission allocates additional €500 million to Horizon Europe and adds two calls

News Tank Academic - Paris - News #455220 - Published on 29/09/26 at 14:50
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The European Commission has 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 now reaches around €14.8 billion for the two years.

The new budget was announced on 29/09/2026 by the Commission, which also released two monitoring reports on the same day showing that Horizon Europe remains highly attractive for researchers, innovators and companies from across Europe and beyond.

The first report, Horizon Europe State of Play, showed that the current programme, launched in 2021, has so far invested €61bn in grants and a further €1.3bn in equity in nearly 23,000 projects. These projects involve more than 34,000 organisations, including 20,000 companies. Most funding has…

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