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 (2014/2015):
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)
