Industrial leadership
The Industrial leadership objective aims at making Europe a more attractive location to
invest in research and innovation, by promoting activities where businesses set the
agenda. It will provide major investment in key industrial technologies, maximise the
growth potential of European companies by providing them with adequate levels of
finance and help innovative SMEs to grow into world-leading companies.
Horizon 2020 will:
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build leadership in enabling and industrial technologies, with dedicated support
for ICT, nanotechnologies, advanced materials, biotechnology, advanced
manufacturing and processing, and space, while also providing support for crosscutting actions to capture the accumulated benefits from combining several Key
Enabling Technologies;
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facilitate access to risk finance;
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provide Union wide support for innovation in SMEs.
Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies: will support the development of
technologies underpinning innovation across a range of sectors, including ICT and
space. Horizon 2020 will have a strong focus on developing European industrial
capabilities in Key Enabling Technologies (KETs). These include:
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Micro- and nano-electronics; photonics
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Nanotechnologies
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Advanced materials
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Biotechnology
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Advanced manufacturing and processing
The proposed funding for Priority 2 for the period 2014-2020 is presented in the following
Table:
Description
Proposed Funding
Million €
Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies
(ICT, nanotechnologies, materials, biotechnology,
13.577
manufacturing, space)
Access to Risk Finance
2.842
Leveraging private finance and venture capital for
research and innovation
Innovation in SMEs
616 +
Fostering all forms of innovation in all types of SMEs
Leadership in Enabling and Industrial Technologies (LEITs)
Information and Communication Technologies
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) brings unique responses to
society's challenges such as the growing needs for sustainable healthcare and ageing
well, for better security and privacy, for a lower carbon economy and for intelligent
transport. The overall aim of EU research and innovation in Information and
Communication Technologies (ICTs) under Horizon 2020 is to bring the benefits of
progress in these technologies to European citizens and businesses. This EU
investment will support the ICT research and innovation that can best deliver new
business breakthroughs, often on the basis of emerging technologies. In particular, ICT
in Horizon 2020 will support the development of ICT in Science, industrial leadership and
societal challenges.
For more information regarding the funding of Information and Communication
Technologies in the framework of the Work Programmes for 2014-2015 in Horizon 2020,
interested parties may refer to the “Guide to ICT-related activities in WP2014-2015”.
Nanotechnologies, Advanced materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing,
Biotechnology
The Program is constituted by the following five Calls: (a) “Nanotechnology, Advanced
Materials and Advanced Manufacturing Processes”, that covers topics from the
respective scientific fields of nanotechnology, materials science and industrial
production, (b) “Biotechnology”, which includes cutting edge issues and future
applications of biotechnology in all sectors of the economy, (c) "Factories of the Future -
FoF", which aims to strengthen the European industry, (d) "Energy efficient Buildings EeF", which covers research and technologies in the construction industry, and (e)
"Sustainable Industrial Processes - SPIRE", which includes a number of important
research areas such as energy applications, industrial pollutants, etc.
Space
The “Space” Programme, under the “Industrial Leadership” Priority, has the main
objective to foster a cost-effective competitive and innovative space industry (including
SMEs) and research community to develop and exploit space infrastructure to meet
future Union policy and societal needs. A special aim is for the European space research
community to develop innovative space technologies and operational concepts "from
idea to demonstration in space", and to use space data for scientific, public, or
commercial purposes. Within this context, the “Space” Programme has been structures
to address the abovementioned challenges by:
 Prioritising the existing two EU Space flagships of European Global Navigation
Satellite System (EGNSS) and Earth Observation reaping the benefits they can
generate in the coming years and ensuring their state-of-the-art also in the future;
 Ensuring the protection of space infrastructure and in particular the setting up of a
Space Surveillance and Tracking system (SST) at European level;
 Ensuring support to EU industry to meet the objectives defined in the Commission
communication on Space Industrial Policy, notably to maintain and enhance
industry’s competitiveness and its value-chain in the global market;
 Ensuring that Europe’s investments made in space infrastructure are exploited to the
benefit of citizens; as well as supporting European space science;
 Enhancing Europe’s standing as attractive partner for international partnerships in
space science and exploration.
Access to Risk Finance
Innovation in SMEs