Your local innovation system will be boosted. If you’re not already in touch with universities with a specialism that’s important for your business, or looking at direct business innovation funding programmes like the European Innovation Council Accelerator, now is the time to do so. With very few exceptions, all Horizon Europe programmes are now open to UK applicants. You can work with other businesses and university partners to apply NOW. UK organisations can now lead consortia, so your business can now play an even greater role in convening and steering research and innovation collaborations. With some projects involving hundreds of business innovators and academics in dozens of countries. One of the biggest benefits of participation in Horizon Europe is the opportunity to build collaborative networks across the EU and beyond (non-EU countries participating include Norway, Israel and New Zealand, with Canada, South Korea and Japan all in discussions). You can collaborate with businesses and academic researchers, across the EU and beyond. And it supports SMEs to take technology from pre-commercial to market and scale-up stages, through Accelerator. It supports technology at the proof-of-concept to pre-commercial stages through Transition. ‘Innovative Europe’ funding, for example, covers early proof-of-concept work through Pathfinder. In Horizon Europe’s predecessor programme more than 2,000 UK businesses received €1.4bn total. Your business can benefit directly from innovation grant fundingĪll kinds of businesses are eligible across the wide range of Horizon programmes, from startups to large multi-national corporations. What could the deal mean for your business? 1. In 2023 we submitted business case studies to Department for Science, Innovation & Technology negotiating teams, contributed to a Commons committee enquiry on Horizon, and coordinated a letter to the Prime Minister from CBI Trade Associations and Innovation Council members urging association.
The CBI has consistently worked with the UK government to ensure the voice of business has been clearly heard: that Horizon Europe is the best option for UK business - even as we also worked with members and the government on shaping the potential alternative, Pioneer programme. In the interim there’s been a lot of uncertainty for businesses, universities and researchers about how and whether they could participate, and it’s made major programmes of international collaboration for innovation between the UK and EU much harder. Since the UK left the EU, the CBI has long campaigned for the UK to be an ‘associate’ member of the €95bn-over-7-years programme. It’s fantastic news for the whole research and innovation community in the UK. The UK and EU governments have finally announced that a deal had been reached for the UK to access the primary EU funding programme for R&D, Horizon Europe.
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