Our future is shaped by research and innovation. Research helps us understand the world around us and find solutions to challenges we face collectively. Innovation drives us forward, provides us with the tools we need to overcome these challenges, and stimulates economic growth, sustainability, and societal well-being.
The European Union is home to over two million researchers who discover, analyse, and spearhead innovation in a range of domains, from the use of artificial intelligence in manufacturing to the treatment of diseases like cancer. While EU Member States manage their own research policies and funding programmes, our common issues can be best tackled when researchers and innovators in different countries work together. This is why research and innovation are supported at EU level.
Through the European research area, the EU promotes cross-border cooperation in research and innovation by encouraging the development of European research infrastructures and enhancing access to scientific information. Furthermore, through its innovation principle, the EU makes sure that legislation is designed in a way that creates the best possible conditions for innovation to flourish.
In four decades, since the launch of its first community-wide funding programme for research, the EU has provided funding of over €280 billion to more than 150 000 research and innovation projects. This makes the EU the largest multilateral provider of research funding in the world. By providing easy access to data about these research and innovation projects, the EU aims to maximise the benefits they bring to our lives and ensure that those who can best make use of these research results are able to find them.
The EU’s current funding programme for research, Horizon Europe, continues to drive Europe’s scientific excellence by:
- supporting the scaling up of innovative companies,
- promoting researcher mobility, and
- encouraging research into some of modern society’s greatest challenges.
As we celebrate 40 years of EU-funded research and innovation, and 30 years of online access to EU-funded research results via CORDIS, our November newsletter puts the spotlight on research and innovation. As always, we also recommend publications on other topics such as the state of the EU’s regions and cities.
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