Launch of the Horizon Europe Program

The "Horizon Europe" program will be launched on February 2, in an online session starting at 11:30 a.m., which will take place in the context of the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU) and organized in close collaboration with the European Commission. See the program and the website www.perin.pt.
(link to the streaming of the session)

The event brings together speakers from all over Europe and includes interventions by researchers, business leaders and political and government officials, with the aim of mobilizing the whole of Europe for the "Horizon Europe, 2021-27" program and its articulation with the national recovery and resilience programs being prepared under the "Next Generation EU, 2021-26" program.

During the event, ideas for promoting the dual green and digital transition across Europe will be particularly presented and discussed, in association with a resilient recovery through a renewed European Research Area - ERA.

The program document includes a basic note on the critical issues facing this process today and the promotion of R&D activity in Europe, including the need to increase public and private investment in R&D, particularly in the context of the European Commission's recent reaffirmation of the 3% target for R&D investment in terms of gross domestic product by 2030.

In Portugal, the coordination and dissemination of the strategy to strengthen national participation in the "Horizon Europe, 2021-27" program is done through the PERIN Network - "Portugal in Europe Research and Innovation Network", which includes the main R&D funding and promoting agencies, namely FCT, ANI, AICIB, PT Space, the ERSMUS Agency and DGES, in close coordination with the European program promotion offices in academic and research institutions, as well as in companies, business associations and business incubation and interface centers.