Ireland's National Support Network

Horizon Europe (2021-2027) is the European Union’s (EU’s) key funding programme for research and innovation, with a budget of more than €93.5 billion. The programme is built around three main pillars – excellent science, global challenges and industrial competitiveness, and innovative Europe.

Five missions relating to climate change, cancer, oceans and water, carbon-neutral cities and soil health, also form an integral part of Horizon Europe.

Ireland enjoys a strong track record in European Framework Programmes, winning €1.2 billion in funding through Horizon 2020 (2014-2020).

Our National Support Network for Horizon Europe works with Ireland’s researchers, innovators and entrepreneurs to help them compete for and win funding to advance their research and innovation ambitions.

Find your European Advisor here and read the latest news below.

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Bio-based artificial lungs to change patients’ lives
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Bio-based artificial lungs to change pat...

by Brigid Burke | Sep 4, 2024

European Innovation Council

CellMembrane, a Horizon Europe project led by Irish medtech firm Smart Reactors, is developing a nanocellulose membrane that could transform the fortunes of those with lung disease around the world. “We’re taking woody plant matter, effectively like sawdust, processing it at a nanoscale level and building a scaffold that will act as an artificial lung,” explains Mark Brassil, Smart Reactor’s co-founder and CTO.

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Innovation at the edge – Dell Technologies
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Innovation at the edge – Dell Tech...

by Paula Vigueras | Jul 17, 2024

Horizon Europe

The €16m BRAINE project was established to develop a modular edge computing platform, integrating big data processing and AI-driven use cases, with both a hardware and software element. Co-funded by the EU’s ECSEL Joint Undertaking under Horizon 2020, and the National Funding Agencies of the Participating Countries, it involved 27 different companies and universities in 14 Participating States.

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DUBLIN EVENT A ‘MILESTONE’ ON IRELAND’S TRANSPORT JOURNEY
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DUBLIN EVENT A ‘MILESTONE’ ON IRELAND’S ...

by Paula Vigueras | Apr 2, 2024

Horizon Europe

Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan TD with an An Post electric trike in the foreground with (l-r), Chair of the TRA2024 Organising Committee Celine Crawford, CEO of Transport Infrastructure Ireland Peter Walsh and Head of Research and Innovation at Enterprise Ireland Marina Donohoe, as they demonstrated some of the eco-friendly transport options which will be on display at Transport Research Arena 2024 at the RDS in Dublin next month.

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Chipping away at the AI of the future
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Chipping away at the AI of the future

by Brigid Burke | Mar 26, 2024

Cluster 4 Digital, Industry and Space

Edge AI focuses on implementing AI in an edge computing environment, allowing computations to be done close to where data is collected rather than at a centralised cloud computing facility or an offsite data centre. It is a key feature in many of the small devices that are found in homes, offices, factories and workspaces. Advancing this technology is the aim of NeuroSoC, a Horizon Europe funded project that includes 12 partners from 9 countries across Europe, including the UK and Switzerland.

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5G-STARDUST: building the networks of the future
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5G-STARDUST: building the networks of th...

by Brigid Burke | Mar 6, 2024

Horizon Europe

The ability to easily connect to the internet is increasingly taken for granted in the developed world. But the latest United Nations study found that a third of the world’s population remains unconnected to the World Wide Web, with those in poor and remote areas most affected. 5G-STARDUST, or Satellite and Terrestrial Access for Distributed, Ubiquitous, and Smart Telecommunications, is a Horizon Europe-funded project that may help to tackle the digital divide.

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Working with cobots: ONE4ALL imagines the industrial future
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Working with cobots: ONE4ALL imagines th...

by Anne-Marie Daly | Jul 25, 2023

Cluster 4 Digital, Industry and Space

Developing cobots, or mobile collaborative robots that can safely operate beside humans in the workplace, is the challenge ONE4ALL, a Horizon Europe funded project, has set itself. The project aims to help manufacturing plants, particularly small and medium-sized ones, transition towards Industry 5.0. This is the EU vision of the industrial future, one that embraces green and digital technologies and sees people working more closely with robots and smart machines.

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Xecs Call 3
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Xecs Call 3

by Anne-Marie Daly | Jun 12, 2023

COST and EUREKA

Xecs is a Eureka Cluster specifically designed to accelerate the pace of sustainable industrial innovation in the Electronics Components & Systems (ECS) community. The intent of Xecs is to create an ambitious international collaboration programme. The resulting RD&I projects will generate high levels of societal and economic impact for all those who participate in a Xecs project. Xecs Call 3 opens on 25 September 2023 at the Xecs Matchmaking Event in Paris.

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Horizon Europe Brokerage Event – Cluster 4 Space calls 2023 & 2024 – 2nd February 2023
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Horizon Europe Brokerage Event – C...

by Anne-Marie Daly | Feb 3, 2023

Cluster 4 Digital, Industry and Space

A Horizon Europe Brokerage Event titled ‘Cluster 4 Space calls 2023 & 2024’ took place on 2nd February 2023. The 2.5 hours virtual event introduced the Cluster 4 space calls for proposals for the next two years, presented insights and expectations from the European Commission, 12 pitches were introduced for potential collaborations and the virtual brokerage event allowed participants to create strategic partnerships through scheduled one-to-one meetings.

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Europe scales up 6G research investments and selects 35 new projects worth €250 million
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Europe scales up 6G research investments...

by Anne-Marie Daly | Oct 12, 2022

Digital

The Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU) selected its first portfolio of 35 research, innovation, and trial projects to enable the evolution of 5G ecosystems and promote 6G research in Europe. With a combined funding for this new portfolio of around €250 million under Horizon Europe, the aim is to build a first-class European supply chain for advanced 5G systems and build Europe’s 6G technology capacities.

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EU funding enables vital ‘human-centric’ AI work
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EU funding enables vital ‘human-centric’...

by Anne-Marie Daly | Sep 27, 2022

Cluster 3 Civil Security for Society

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes ever more embedded in business and society, the EU has declared the need for a ‘human-centric’ approach to AI. TU Dublin has teamed up with 13 partners from across Europe to create ‘CISC’ (Collaborative Intelligence for Safety Critical systems), a MSCA Innovative Training Network project. Funded by Horizon 2020, the project aims to hire, train and mentor early-stage researchers as collaborative intelligence (CI) scientists.

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Westmeath and Limerick host JRC “Science meets Regions” events
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Westmeath and Limerick host JRC “Science...

by Anne-Marie Daly | Aug 31, 2022

Joint Research Centre

Westmeath County is the lead partner of a project on green and digital transitions within the JRC initiative “Science meets Regions”. Together with Limerick and the Hungarian region of Győr-Moson-Sopron, Westmeath will host events on issues of common interest such as the future of sustainable industries, the bioeconomy, and Social Innovation in relation with the recovery from the COVID-19 Pandemic.

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The SMART 5th Call for Projects is open
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The SMART 5th Call for Projects is open

by Anne-Marie Daly | Sep 23, 2021

COST and EUREKA

The SMART 5th Call for Projects is now open! Consortia have until Tuesday 03rd May to submit a Full Project Proposal. Consortia that submitted a Project Outline (PO) before the deadline of Monday 24th January will receive feedback after Monday 7th March and successful consortia will be invited to proceed to FPP stage. Consortia that did not submit a PO are still eligible to continue directly to the FPP stage.

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Cluster 6 – Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
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Cluster 6 – Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Re...

by Anne-Marie Daly | Nov 2, 2020

Cluster 6 Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment

R&I in the Cluster 6 aims to advance knowledge, build capacities as well as develop and demonstrate innovative solutions that will accelerate the transition to a sustainable and circular management and use of natural resources ensuring ecosystem integrity as well as sustainable development and human well-being, including food and nutrition security, in the EU and globally. This will involve user-driven exploitation of environmental big data sources (in particular from Copernicus and Galileo). R&I activities under this Cluster shall create the following interlinked, long-term impacts.

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Enterprise Ireland Supports

TRAVEL GRANTS

Travel to Europe to meet your partners and start networking for your next Horizon Europe project
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COORDINATOR SUPPORT GRANTS

Apply for financial support to coordinate a Horizon Europe project
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ERC PROPOSAL SUPPORT

Financial support to apply for Starter Grants, Consolidator Grants, Advanced Grants and Synergy Grants
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OTHER SUPPORTS

  • Application for support of Horizon Europe large scale initiatives
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