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Innovation Fund
Innovation Fund (IF): EU funding programme for climate-neutral and transformative technologies (Updated on 11 December 2025) What is the Innovation Fund? The Innovation Fund (IF) one of the EU‘s…
LIFE
LIFE Programme (updated on 10 December 2025) The LIFE programme aims to enable the transition to a sustainable, circular, energy-efficient, renewable energy based, climate-neutral and resilient…
ITEA 4
ITEA 4 (updated on 10 December 2025) EUREKA is a European initiative for application-oriented research and development. It offers companies and scientific institutions the framework for…
ESF+
ESF+ (updated on 10 December 2025) The European Social Fund+ (ESF+) is the European Union's (EU) instrument for investing in people. With a budget of almost EUR 99.3 billion for the period 2021 –…
ERDF – European Regional Development Fund
ERDF – European Regional Development Fund (updated on 10 December 2025) The ERDF aims to reduce disparities in the level of development of the various regions of the European Union and to improve…
COST Actions
What is COST? (updated on 10 December 2025) COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) is an EU-funded programme that enables researchers to set up their interdisciplinary research…
Research and development expenditure of EU member states is set to rise to over €403 billion by 2024
In 2024, EU member states invested an estimated €403.1 billion in research and development (R&D). This is an increase of 3.6% compared to 2023, when the figure was €389.2 billion. A ten-year…
EIT and EEN join forces to strengthen the European innovation ecosystem
The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) and the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) have signed their first joint guidelines for cooperation. The agreement, drawn up by the EIT and…
Hannah Kamionka
Hannah Kamionka
The EIT and its KICs
The EIT and its KICs The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) is an EU body with the aim of strengthening Europe’s capacity for innovation. It is in the knowledge triangle of…

