EC Commission welcomes EU Member States' adoption of Horizon 2020

The European Commission yesterday welcomed the adoption by EU Member States of Horizon 2020, the next EU research and innovation programme. With a budget of nearly EUR 80 billion euro over seven years, Horizon 2020 is the biggest EU research programme yet, and one of the biggest publicly funded worldwide.

Welcoming the adoption, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science said: “I very much welcome the decision taken today, but the real work starts now…