Expected Outcome

Synergies between Horizon Europe and the cohesion policy programmes, notably the European Fund for Regional Development (ERDF) but also INTERREG and the Resilience and Recovery Fund (RRF), are instrumental for widening countries to catch up in their R&I performance and to reduce the innovation divide in Europe. Although such synergies are already addressed in the Teaming and Excellence Hubs actions under this work programme these instruments do not capture the full range of possible synergies and need to be complemented by a dedicated scheme. The Commission staff working document on ‘Synergies between Horizon Europe and ERDF programmes’ (SWD(2022) xxx final) presents the new opportunities for achieving operational synergies between Horizon Europe and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), including for Seal of Excellence, transfer, cumulative funding, combined funding (Co-funded and Institutionalised Partnerships), Teaming, and upstream/downstream synergies. This pilot call offers opportunities to incentivise the concrete realisation of particularly promising sequential synergies in two different pathways either supporting the upstream synergy mode (a) or downstream synergy mode (b) where the former is focussing on human resources development and internationalisation and the latter on valorisation and upscaling of research results towards marketable solutions.

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