Today, the Commission released its first report on the "Performance of the European Partnerships: Biennial Monitoring Report 2022 on Partnerships under Horizon Europe" (BMR 2022). The report provides an overview of the new Partnership landscape under Horizon Europe and establishes the basis for assessing their progress in future reports.
The BMR 2022 constitutes the first comprehensive monitoring of Horizon Europe Partnerships, using a set of common indicators and analysing their contribution to EU policy objectives and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. It further provides a snapshot of the 27 EU Member States, Iceland, and Norway performance in Partnerships, as well as of the individual European Partnership performance. The report explores the added value of Partnerships by providing examples of outcomes and impacts.
A total of €55.3 billion, has been committed for the European Partnerships in the first Horizon Europe Strategic Plan (2021-2024), of this total, €23.9 billion comes from Horizon Europe. The report shows that European Partnerships:
are major contributors to both the digital and green transition, resilience, and the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The report finds that the share of resources planned by Partnerships to contribute to these objectives is significantly higher in Horizon Europe than in Horizon 2020.
have become strategic policy instruments, which is reflected also in the increased interest and commitments to European Partnerships from the Member States and Associated Countries and industry that together have contributed to the total budget with a commitment of €31.4 billion.
have a clear potential for synergies and cooperation between European Partnerships across Horizon clusters and with other policy instruments at the EU and national level.
In addition to the data and indicators used by the report to analyse the Partnerships at the Horizon Europe level, the BMR also reports on the progress of the EU Partnerships by analysing six Partnership-level common indicators. These indicators are: additionality and directionality, coherence and synergies, openness and transparency, and international visibility, and they help to capture the agreed principles for the effective implementation and monitoring of European Partnerships.
Background
The 2022 edition of the Biennial Monitoring Report on European Partnerships has been drafted by a Commission independent Expert Group on support of the strategic coordinating process, in very close cooperation with the Common Missions and Partnerships Service at the Common Policy Centre of DG Research and Innovation. 27 Member States, Norway and Iceland, and 37 European Partnerships provided data for this report.
Additional information
- European Partnerships in Horizon Europe
- Report on the performance of European Partnerships
- Interactive presentation of the report