Horizon Europe is the EU’s key funding programme for research and innovation with a budget of €95.5 billion. It tackles climate change, helps to achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and boosts the EU’s competitiveness and growth, as described at the European Commission’s webpage:

Its first Strategic Plan has set out the key strategic orientations for the targeting of investments in the programme's first 4 years (2021-2024), according to the following programme structure:

The funding opportunities (topics) under Horizon Europe are included in the so-called HE Work Programmes, which can be downloaded from the EC web (Reference Documents section):

The application platform is the Funding & Tenders Portal, where a detailed description of each topic is provided (including its application deadline):

Please, remember that the PIC number for Universidad de Jaén is the following one:

According to HE WP 23-24 General Annexes, the following activities are generally eligible for grants under Horizon Europe:

• Research and innovation actions (RIA): Activities that aim primarily to establish new knowledge or to explore the feasibility of a new or improved technology, product, process, service or solution. This may include basic and applied research, technology development and integration, testing, demonstration and validation of a small-scale prototype in a laboratory or simulated environment.
• Innovation actions (IA): Activities that aim directly to produce plans and arrangements or designs for new, altered or improved products, processes or services. These activities may include prototyping, testing, demonstrating, piloting, large-scale product validation and market replication.
• Coordination and support actions (CSA): Activities that contribute to the objectives of Horizon Europe.

Finally, a detailed description of Horizon Europe’s priorities can be found below:

It should also be highlighted that HE will also support European Partnerships in which the EU, national authorities and/or the private sector jointly commit to support the development and implementation of a programme of research and innovation activities. ERA-LEARN provides us with a very useful graphic description of the transition of partnerships from H2020 to HE:

Further information about Horizon Europe can be provided by the National Contact Points all around the world and it can also be found at the HE - Reference documents website (including the most updated version of the 'AGA – Annotated Model Grant Agreement' in the Guidance section).