Background

 

Horizon 2020

Horizon 2020 is the biggest EU Research and Innovation programme ever with nearly €80 billion of funding available over 7 years (2014 to 2020) – in addition to the private investment that this money will attract. It promises more breakthroughs, discoveries and world-firsts by taking great ideas from the lab to the market.

For more information: https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/en

 

Startup Europe

Startup Europe aims to strengthen the business environment for web and ICT entrepreneurs so that their ideas and business can start and grow in the EU.

For more information: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/startup-europe

 

CAPS

The Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social Innovation (CAPS) is a European Commission initiative that pioneers new models to create awareness of emerging sustainability challenges and of the role that each of us can play to ease them through collective action.

The CAPS initiative aims at designing and piloting online platforms to create awareness on sustainability problems and putting in place collective solutions. It fosters collaborative solutions based on networks (of people, of ideas, of sensors), enabling new forms of digital social innovation.

For more information: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/collective-awareness