HORIZONT EUROPE - Global Challenges and Competitiveness - Cluster 4 - Digitalisation, Industry and Space
Digitisation and the development of technologies, including space, are having a decisive impact on all economic sectors and society as a whole. They underpin the transformation of industrial production and the emergence of new products and services that fundamentally affect the way we live and are key to future sustainable development. The main strategic priorities of Cluster 4 are:
- Transforming European industry for a clean, climate-neutral, circular and competitive economy
- Ensuring (strengthening) European leadership and strategic autonomy in key technologies
- Developing technologies and innovations that serve citizens
The expected impacts of this part of the second pillar of Horizon Europe are reflected in 6 work programme areas (called Destinations)
- Climate neutral, circular and digitised production
- Increased autonomy in key strategic value chains for resilient industry
- World leading data and computing technologies
- Digital and emerging technologies for competitiveness and fit for the Green Deal
- Open strategic autonomy in developing, deploying and using global space-based infrastructures, services, applications and data
- A human-centred and ethical development of digital and industrial technologies
Areas 1 and 2 are mainly relevant for industry, areas 3 and 4 for digitalisation and area 5 for space.
Basic information about Horizon Europe can be found on the EC website, and about Cluster 4 specifically here.
Following the publication of the Horizon Europe Work Programme 2023-2024, the 2023 calls opened on 8 December 2022 - the closure dates can be found here. For two-round calls, these are first-round closures, which will be evaluated without revealing the identity of the applicants to the evaluators (Blind evaluations).
The work programme of Cluster 4 can be found here.