{"id":37031,"date":"2025-07-24T20:36:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T18:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=37031"},"modified":"2025-07-24T20:36:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T18:36:51","slug":"horizon-europe-mission-innovation-and-cooperation-for-a-sustainable-future-for-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2025\/07\/24\/horizon-europe-mission-innovation-and-cooperation-for-a-sustainable-future-for-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Horizon Europe Missions: Innovation and Cooperation for a Sustainable European Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EU Missions are an innovative tool within the Horizon Europe programme that <strong>integrates research and innovation (R&amp;I) objectives with environmental and societal goals<\/strong>, with the aim of achieving substantial and measurable results by 2030. <!--more-->They were launched in 2021 after identifying key areas where challenges can be effectively addressed through a mission-based approach. These areas are: <strong>the fight against cancer; climate-neutral and smart cities; climate change adaptation, including societal transformation; healthy oceans, seas, coastal and inland waters; and soil and food health<\/strong>An overview of their performance to date brings <a href=\"https:\/\/euagenda.eu\/publications\/download\/644615\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">report<\/span><\/a> European Commission&#039;s &quot;Horizon Europe Missions Monitoring Flash&quot;, completed in April 2025 with data as of July 1, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>EU missions have several distinctive features that distinguish them from traditional research activities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Time-limited:<\/strong> They are aimed at achieving specific results by 2030.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Measurable:<\/strong> Each mission has defined explicit societal outcomes that go beyond scientific and economic goals.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Interdisciplinary approach:<\/strong> They have broad ambitions but precise goals, encompassing a wide range of disciplines.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Leverage\/additional resources:<\/strong> The missions are expected to mobilize additional funding from public and private sources, including national and regional governments and the private sector.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Regulatory objective:<\/strong> They complement existing initiatives and regulatory frameworks, thus promoting coherence in the EU agenda.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Involvement and commitment:<\/strong> They place a strong emphasis on citizen and stakeholder engagement, with the aim of fostering a \u201cshared sense of urgency\u201d and public accountability.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Since their launch, EU missions have supported targeted research and innovation in various sectors. The 2021-2023 work programmes have set aside <strong>up to \u20ac1.9 billion exclusively for mission-specific challenges<\/strong>As of July 2024, Horizon Europe has funded <strong>223 mission-specific projects<\/strong>, with the participation of <strong>2,854 participants<\/strong> and investments of <strong>EUR 1.7 billion<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The success rate of proposals for mission-specific calls reaches 25%, surpassing the overall average for Horizon Europe (16%) and Pillar II (21%). The average project size reaches EUR 7.8 million, with an average of 21 participants per project. <strong>Innovation Actions (IA)<\/strong> represent the largest share of funded projects (93 projects, EUR 840 million), followed by <strong>research and innovation actions (RIA)<\/strong> (88 projects, \u20ac753 million) and <strong>coordination and support actions (CSA)<\/strong> (42 projects, EUR 139 million).<\/p>\n<p>Of the 2,854 unique participants, they represent <strong>small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) 22% (634)<\/strong>, which were awarded grants worth EUR 283 million. <strong>Research organizations (REC)<\/strong> received the largest share of grants (27%, EUR 476 million), followed by <strong>higher education institutions (HES)<\/strong> with 25% (EUR 428 million) and <strong>private profit-making companies (PRC)<\/strong> with 24% (EUR 409 million). From a geographical point of view, it comes from <strong>89% participants from EU Member States<\/strong>, 9% from associated countries and 2% from third countries. <strong>Expansion countries<\/strong> represent 33% participants from Member States. Entities established in <strong>Spain, the Netherlands, Germany and Italy<\/strong> are the most frequent participants, having collectively raised \u20ac758 million. Together with France, these countries account for 371% of all participations.<\/p>\n<p>The EU&#039;s mission-specific call budget is evenly distributed across all five missions, with slight differences. <strong>Mission Climate-neutral and smart cities<\/strong> received the largest share (22.4%), with EUR 387.3 million, followed by <strong>On a mission against cancer<\/strong> (21.8%, EUR 377.1 million). <strong>Mission Climate Change Adaptation<\/strong> secured 21% of the budget (355.1 million EUR), while <strong>Mission Healthy Oceans and Waters<\/strong> EUR 350.2 million (20%). Finally, <strong>Mission Soil Health<\/strong> received EUR 262.4 million (151% of the budget). In terms of funded projects, it leads <strong>Mission Ocean and Waters<\/strong> (66 projects), followed by <strong>On a mission against cancer<\/strong> (48) and <strong>Mission Soil Health<\/strong> (43). <strong>Mission Climate Adaptation<\/strong> includes 38 projects and <strong>Mission Cities<\/strong> 27.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to mission-specific challenges, <strong>Mission Projects &amp; Results Portfolios<\/strong> provide a comprehensive overview of Horizon Europe&#039;s contribution to missions. The total budget of these portfolios as of 1 July 2024 is <strong>EUR 7.16 billion and finances 1,829 projects<\/strong>The majority of this funding (72%) is allocated through <strong>Pilliera II \u2013 Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness<\/strong>The Horizon Europe monitoring and evaluation framework tracks the progress of missions through <strong>Key Pathways of Impact (KPI) 5: Delivering Benefits and Impacts through Missions<\/strong>. It includes short-term, medium-term and long-term indicators. Short-term outputs include, for example, publications (107), shared knowledge (331 open publications), innovative products (163) and co-creation (110 projects). Particular emphasis is placed on <strong>co-creation<\/strong>where <strong>90% mission-specific projects actively engage citizens and end users<\/strong> into the research and innovation process, which is significantly higher than the overall average of the Horizon Europe program (44%).<\/p>\n<p>Horizon Europe missions therefore represent an ambitious, <strong>coordinated and interdisciplinary approach<\/strong> to address pressing societal and environmental challenges. Through targeted funding, extensive collaboration and rigorous monitoring, they aim to achieve measurable impact by 2030. The whole process is like a large orchestral performance, where each mission represents a separate section, but all the instruments (funding, partners, research types) are carefully aligned to create a harmonious and powerful symphony of positive change for the future of Europe and its citizens. <em><strong>Spring<\/strong><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EU Missions are an innovative tool under Horizon Europe that integrates research and innovation (R&amp;I) objectives with environmental and societal goals, with the aim of achieving substantial and measurable results by 2030.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adaptacia-na-zmenu-klimy","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}