Horizon 2020 offers a total budget of €77bn over 7 years to three main pillars:
- Excellent science
- Industrial leadership (including information and communication technologies, advanced materials, advanced manufacturing and processing)
- Societal challenges (including transport, energy, climate action and raw materials)
The following are the main programmes of interest to the European automotive sector, with links to the current work programmes:
Societal challenges
- Smart, Green & Integrated Transport (link)
- Including the European Green Vehicles Initiative (link)
- Secure, Clean & Efficient Energy (link)
- Climate Action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials (link)
Industrial leadership
- Information & Communication Technologies (link)
- Nanotechnologies, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, and Biotechnology (link)
- Including Factories of the Future (link)