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NEWS7 Aug 2023News

Looking for partners to prepare a Horizon Europe proposal?

Horizon EU

Horizon Europe is the EU’s key funding programme for Research & Innovation with a budget of €95.5 billion. It runs from 2021 to 2027. The latest work programmes for 2023-2024 were published in November 2022. 

The vast majority of this funding is allocated on the basis of competitive calls open to applications from researchers, businesses and other interested organisations located in any of the EU Member States or Associated Countries to Horizon Europe as well as partners from all over the world.

Institutions from third countries (including South Korea) can join most of Horizon Europe calls as part of a consortium comprised of:

  • at least 1 partner from an EU member state and

  • at least 2 additional partners from 2 other different countries coming either from EU member states and/or countries associated to Horizon Europe.

Note that the eligibility to automatic funding of the third countries institutions by the European Commission is subject to certain conditions. All funding opportunities and related information are available on the Funding and Tenders Opportunities Portal.

1- The European Commission Partner Search Tool 

Partner Search Tool

=> Joining the right partnership is fundamental to apply to the open calls and have more chances to get granted. To help your partners' search, the European Commission has developed a very easy to use and efficient tool: the Partner Search Tool. The tool is useful to:

  • Find partners for your project ideas among the organisations registered in the portal.

  • Enter a keyword or a topic of a past call for proposals to find related organisations.

  • Search by geographical criteria or by types of organisation.

  • Search by call topics to find organisations that have participated or expressed interest in participating in the future.

A - Find organisations that participated in past calls for proposals

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B - ​Partner search in an open call of your interest

Below you can find an example of where to find partners for a call of your interest:

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After you click on "View / Edit" you will see:

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2- Use the EURAXESS Partnering Portal to find and be found as a partner

EURAXESS Partnering portal

Institutions registered on EURAXESS Portal can also express their interest in collaborating with partners to apply to EU funding. Search the EURAXESS Partnering portal to find institutions to build a consortium. Remember to register your institution too so that you can be found as potential partner. You have to create an account as a user to then register your organisation. You can do this here. Learn how to use EURAXESS Partnering portal to find and be found as a partner here.

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3- CORDIS (Finding participating organisations in past projects)

CORDIS

CORDIS is the primary source of results from EU-funded projects since 1990. You can browse through their database to find past projects in your field of interest and check which institutions participated in them. Use the filters to refine your search.

CORDIS

4- Thematic European networks of National Contact Points

You can also contact the European network of National Contact Points (NCPs) for your topic of interest. It is the main structure to provide guidance, practical information and assistance on all aspects of participation in Horizon Europe. 

The following networks of NCPs under Horizon Europe are currently active:

 


Bridge 2 HE / HE NCP Portal

website: https://horizoneuropencpportal.eu/

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Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions

website: https://msca-net.eu/

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European Innovation Council (EIC) and the European Innovation Ecosystems (EIE)

website: access2eic.eu

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Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Society (CL2), former Social sciences and humanities (SSH) NCP Network

website: https://www.net4society.eu/ 

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Widening participation and strengthening the European Research Area

website: https://www.ncpwideranet.eu/

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Research Infrastructures

website: https://rich-europe.eu/

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SEREN5 - Network of Security National Contact Points

website: https://www.seren-project.eu/

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Health NCP Network

website: https://www.healthncp.net/

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Digital ICT NCP Network

website: https://www.ideal-ist.eu/

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GREENET - NCP Network for Cluster 5 :Climate, Energy and Mobility 

website: https://horizoneuropencpportal.eu/cluster-5

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CARE4BIO - NCP network for Cluster 6: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment 

website: https://horizoneuropencpportal.eu/cluster-6

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L&F - Network of Financial and Legal NCP

website: https://horizoneuropencpportal.eu/lf 

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COSMOS4HE - Space NCP Network

website: https://www.ncp-space.net/

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