The European Commission has adopted the amendment to increase the Horizon Europe Work programme’s budget in 2021-2022 by €562 million. When added to the initial budget it attains a total of €16 billion.
This substantial change is intended to boost the current challenges in health, climate and the environment. In addition to solve the difficulties experienced by Ukrainian scientists who have been displaced by the war.
Horizon Europe’s distribution
Within these €562 million euros, €507.1 million will be destined to the five EU missions.
Furthermore, the European Commission will celebrate seventeen calls covering new topics about the five EU missions during days 17 and 18 May.
Moreover, Horizon Europe will encourage the woman’s European innovation through Woman TechEu with €10 million euros.
In the same way the Cluster 2 ‘Culture, creativity and inclusive society’ will be promoted through various actions:
Horizon Europe supports Ukrainian researchers
Additionally, Ukrainian researchers who were previously active, will be supported by a new program on the new scheme MSCA4Ukraine, which forms part of Marie Skłodowska-Curie’s actions (MSCA), and will get a budget of €25 million.
On top of that, Cluster 1 ‘Health’ from Horizon Europe also looks to assist the Ukrainian researcher’s community through Human Frontier Science’s Program, which will get a budget of €1 million thanks to the initiative “Scientists help scientists”
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