HORIZON 2020

Horizon 2020 is the European Program for research and innovation for the funding period 2014-2020.
It has a total budget of 80 billion of euros.
Horizon 2020 structure consists of three priorities or pillars, which are implemented through specific programmes and a dedicated financial contribution:

• Excellent science
• Industrial leadership
• Societal challenges

COSME

COSME is the new Programme for the Competitiveness of Enterprises and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (COSME) and aims at supporting the competitiveness, growth and sustainability of EU’s enterprises, in particular SMEs, and promoting entrepreneurship
COSME aims at strengthening the competitiveness and sustainability of the EU’s enterprises, at encouraging an entrepreneurial culture and promoting the creation and growth of SMEs. These objectives will be met by improving:

• access to finance for SMEs;
• access to markets, inside the Union but also at global level;
• framework conditions for businesses;
• entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial culture.

ERASMUS+

Erasmus+ is the new programme proposed by the European Commission for education, training, youth and sport.
The Programme focuses on three types of key actions:

• transnational and international learning mobility of students, young people, teachers and staff;
• cooperation for innovation and good practices between education institutions and bodies active in the youth field, and the support to the policy agendas,
• support to capacity building in third countries, including enlargement countries, with a particular focus on neighbouring countries and the international policy dialogue.

It particularly aims to contribute to reach the following Europe 2020 headline targets:

• reduction of early school leaving rates;
• increase of 30-34 years old students having completed third level of education.

GALILEO E EGNOS

Galileo Aand EGNOS (European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service) have an overall budget of 7.071 billion of euros.
The aim of the Galileo programme is to establish and operate the first global satellite navigation and positioning infrastructure specifically designed for civilian purposes;

• The aim of the EGNOS programme is to improve the quality of signals from existing global navigation satellite systems (GNSS)./li>

PERICLES 2020

The Pericles Programme funds exchanges, assistances and training for authorities, banks and others involved in combating euro-counterfeiting – both in the eurozone and in EU countries outside the eurozone.

HERCULE III

The Hercule III programme is established to promote activities against fraud, corruption and any other illegal activities affecting the financial interests of the Union.

CUSTOMS 2020

The general objective of the programme shall be to strengthen the internal market through an efficient and effective customs union.

FISCALIS 2020

The Fiscalis 2020 Programme is created to fight against tax fraud and support revenue collection for the EU and Member States’ budgets. It is a key element in efforts to strengthen an EU Internal Market.

CONNECTING EUROPE FACILITY

Connecting Europe Facility supports projects in the field of transport, energy and telecommunications infrastructure and enables the preparation and implementation of projects of common interest within the framework of the trans-European networks policy. In particular the Connecting Europe Facility supports the implementation of projects aiming at the development and construction of new or upgrading of existing infrastructure.

INSTRUMENT FOR NUCLEAR SAFETY CO-OPERATION / INSC

The Nuclear Safety Co-operation Instrument (NSCI) finances measures to support a higher level of nuclear safety, radiation protection and the application of efficient and effective safeguards of nuclear materials in third countries.

EUROPEAN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT FUND (ERDF)

The ERDF aims to strengthen economic and social cohesion in the European Union by correcting imbalances between its regions.
The ERDF focuses its investments on several key priority areas. This is known as ‘thematic concentration’:

• Innovation and research;
• The digital agenda;
• Support for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs);
• The low-carbon economy.

The ERDF resources allocated to these priorities will depend on the category of region.

• In more developed regions, at least 80 % of funds must focus on at least two of these priorities;
• In transition regions, this focus is for 60 % of the funds;
• This is 50 % in less developed regions.

Furthermore, some ERDF resources must be channelled specifically towards low-carbon economy projects:

• More developed regions: 20%;
• Transition regions: 15%; and
• Less developed regions: 12%.

EUROPEAN SOCIAL FUND (ESF)

The ESF is Europe’s main instrument for supporting jobs, helping people get better jobs and ensuring fairer job opportunities for all EU citizens. It works by investing in Europe’s human capital – its workers, its young people and all those seeking a job. ESF financing of EUR 10 billion a year is improving job prospects for millions of Europeans, in particular those who find it difficult to get work.

YOUTH EMPLOYMENT INITIATIVES

The Youth Employment Initiative aims to ensure that all young people aged 15-24 not in employment, education or training (so-called NEETs) receive a good-quality offer of employment, continued education, an apprenticeship or traineeship within a period of four months of becoming unemployed or leaving formal education.
The support provided by the European Social Fund for the implementation of the Youth Guarantee covers funding activities to directly help young such as job provision, traineeships and apprenticeships, business start-up support, etc.

COHESION FUND

The Cohesion Fund helps Member States who’s GNI per inhabitant is less than 90% of the EU27 average in making investments in TEN-T transport networks and the environment.

EU PROGRAMME FOR EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIAL INNOVATION (EaSI)

The European Union Programme on Employment and Social Innovation aims to increase coherence of EU action in the employment and social areas by bringing together and building on the implementation of the Progress Programme (Programme for Employment and Social Solidarity), EURES (European Employment Services) and the European Progress Microfinance facility.

IINTERREG EUROPE

Interreg Europe will contribute to a smart, sustainable and inclusive growth in Europe by supporting and facilitating knowledge sharing and good practice transfer among actors of regional relevance to improve Regional/Cohesion policy.

COMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY 2014-2020 (CAP – pillar I)

The CAP aims at promoting smart, sustainable and inclusive growth for EU agriculture and rural areas in line with the Europe 2020 strategy.

EUROPEAN AGRICULTURAL FUND FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT (EARDF, CAP – pillar II)

The European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) contributes to the Europe 2020 Strategy by promoting sustainable rural development throughout the Union in a complementary manner to the other instruments of the common agricultural policy (CAP), to cohesion policy and to the common fisheries policy. It supports to a more territorially and environmentally balanced, climate-friendly and resilient, and innovative Union agricultural sector.
General objectives of the EAFRD:

• the competitiveness of agriculture;
• the sustainable management of natural resources, and climate action;
• a balanced territorial development of rural areas.

EUROPEAN MARITIME AND FISHERIES FUND (EMFF)

The new Fund helps fishermen in the transition to sustainable fishing, supports coastal communities in diversifying their economies, finances projects that create new jobs and improve quality of life along European coasts, makes it easier to access financing.

Environment and Climate Action (LIFE)

The general objectives of the programme are:

• to contribute to the shift towards a resource-efficient, low-carbon and climate resilient economy, to the protection and improvement of the quality of the environment and to halting and reversing biodiversity loss;
• to improve the development, implementation and enforcement of Union environmental and climate policy and legislation, and to catalyse and promote integration and mainstreaming of environmental and climate objectives into other Union policies and public and private sector practice, including by increasing their capacity;
• to support better environmental and climate governance at all levels;

EUROPEAN GLOBALISATION ADJUSTMENT FUND (EGF)

The European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) was established to provide the Union with an instrument to demonstrate solidarity with, and give support to, workers made redundant as a result of major structural changes in world trade patterns caused by globalisation where these redundancies have a significant adverse impact on the regional or local economy.

INSTRUMENT FOR PRE-ACCESSION ASSISTANCE (IPA)

IPA aims to support candidate countries and potential candidates in implementing the political, institutional, legal, administrative, social and economic reforms required to bring the countries closer to Union values and to progressively align to Union rules, standards, policies and practices with a view to Union membership.

European Neighbourhood Instrument – ENI

European Neighbourhood Instrument replaces the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI) as part of EU’s proposed Multiannual Financial Framework for the period 2014-2020. The new instrument aims to provide support to 16 partner countries to the east and south of the EU’s borders, by an increasingly policy-driven approach providing for greater differentiation, more flexibility, stricter conditionality and incentives for best performers, reflecting the ambition of each partnership.

PARTNERSHIP INSTRUMENT (PI)

The aim for the Partnership Instrument is to externally project the EU’s internal policies and to seek complementarities with EU programmes, such as Horizon 2020 and Erasmus+.

DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION INSTRUMENT (DCI)

The primary objective of cooperation under this Instrument is the reduction and, in the long term, the eradication of poverty.
Specific objectives of the Programme are:

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• promoting democracy, the rule of law, good governance and respect for human rights.

INSTRUMENT FOR STABILITY (IFS)

General objectives of this Programme are:

• to act in a situation of crisis or emerging crisis, to swiftly contribute to stability by providing an effective response to help preserve, establish or re-establish the conditions essential to the proper implementation of the Union’s development and cooperation policies;
• to prevent conflicts, ensure preparedness to address pre-and post-crisis situations and build peace;
• to address specific global and trans-regional threats having a destabilising effect, including climate change.

SEUROPEAN INSTRUMENT FOR DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS (EIDHR)

The general objective is to contribute to the development and consolidation of human rights and fundamental freedoms, democracy and the rule of low worldwide.

CIVIL PROTECTION FINANCIAL INSTRUMENT (SCFI)

The Union Civil Protection Mechanism aims to support, coordinate and supplement the actions of the Member States in the field of civil protection in improving the effectiveness of systems for preventing, preparing for and responding to natural and man-made disasters.

The multiannual financial framework allocates about the 6% of its resources to administration and balance sector.

ASYLUM AND MIGRATION FUND

The Asylum and Migration Fund draws on the capacity building process developed with the assistance of the European Refugee Fund, the European Fund for the Integration of third-country nationals and the European Return Fund and extends it to cover more comprehensively different aspects of the common Union asylum and immigration policy.

INTERNAL SECURITY FUND

The Internal Security Fund will support the implementation of the Internal Security Strategy and the EU approach to law enforcement cooperation, including the management of the union’s external borders. It will also cover the development of new IT systems, such as the future entry/exit system and the Registered Traveller Programme.

JUSTICE

The general objective of the Programme is to contribute to the creation of a European area of justice by promoting judicial cooperation in civil and criminal matters.
To achieve the general objective the Programme has the following specific objectives:

• to promote effective, comprehensive and consistent application of Union legislation in the areas of judicial cooperation in civil and criminal matters;
• to facilitate access to justice;
• to prevent and reduce drug demand and supply.

RIGHTS, EQUALITY AND CITIZENSHIP PROGRAMME

The general objective of the Programme is to contribute to the further development of an area, where equality and the rights of persons, as enshrined in the TEU, in the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, in the Charter and in the international human rights conventions to which the Union has acceded, are promoted, protected and effectively implemented.

EUROPE FOR CITIZENS

Under the global aim of contributing to the understanding about the European Union and of promoting civic participation, the programme contributes to strengthen remembrance and enhances capacity for civic participation at the Union level.
Specific objectives of the programme are:

• raise awareness on remembrance, the Union’s history, identity and aim by stimulating debate, reflection and networking;
• encourage democratic and civic participation of citizens at European Union level, by developing citizens’ understanding of the Union policy making-process and promoting opportunities for societal engagement and volunteering at Union level.

HEALTH FOR GROWTH

Main Objectives of the Programme are:

• to develop common tools and mechanisms at EU level to address shortages of resources, both human and financial and to facilitate up-take of innovation in healthcare in order to contribute to innovative and sustainable health systems;
• to increase access to medical expertise and information for specific conditions also beyond national borders and to develop shared solutions and guidelines to improve healthcare quality and patient safety in order to increase access to better and safer healthcare for EU citizens;
• to identify, disseminate and promote the up-take of validated best practices for cost-effective prevention measures by addressing the key risk factors, namely smoking, abuse of alcohol and obesity, as well as HIV/AIDS, with a focus on the cross border dimension, in order to prevent diseases and promote good health;
• to develop common approaches and demonstrate their value for better preparedness and coordination in health emergencies in order to protect citizens from cross-border health threats.

CONSUMERS

Specific objective of this Programme are:

• Safety
• Information and education
• Rights and redress
• Enforcement

CREATIVE EUROPE

“Creative Europe” framework programme brings together the 2007-2013 Culture, MEDIA and MEDIA Mundus programmes, and includes a new financial facility to improve access to finance for small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME) and organisations in the cultural and creative sectors.
General objectives of the Programme are:

• to foster the safeguarding and promotion of European cultural and linguistic diversity;
• to strengthen the competitiveness of the cultural and creative sectors with a view to promoting smart, sustainable and inclusive growth.

Its specific objectives are:

• to support the capacity of the European cultural and creative sectors to operate transnationally;
• to promote the transnational circulation of cultural and creative works and operators and reach new audiences in Europe and beyond;
• to strengthen the financial capacity of the cultural and creative sectors, and in particular small and medium-sized enterprises and organizations;
• to support transnational policy cooperation in order to foster policy development, innovation, audience building and new business models.