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News article21 February 2023European Research Executive Agency

Boosting research and innovation in Widening countries

The European Commission signs 25 new Grant Agreements worth EUR 235 million with projects for Teaming for Excellence and Excellence Hubs that will begin their activities in 2023.

Widening projects 2023
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The European Commission will sign grant agreements with 25 projects that successfully applied to the Horizon Europe Widening Participation programme - Teaming for Excellence 2022 (12 projects) and the first Excellence Hubs actions (10 projects + 3 from the reserve list).

Teaming actions will create new or modernise existing centres of excellence in Widening countries through strategic partnerships with leading institutions abroad. The impact will be amplified by the conditionality of securing complementary investment from structural funds or other sources.

Excellence Hubs will strengthen regional innovation excellence, through innovation ecosystems in Widening countries and beyond, by teaming up, and creating robust linkages between academia, businesses, governments and civil society.

Find below an overview of the selected projects per call topic/type of action for the 2022 calls:

Call Id Project Title Project Acronym
 

TEAMING FOR EXCELLENCE

 
HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-ACCESS Central European Advanced Therapy and Immunotherapy Centre CREATIC
HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-ACCESS RNA and Cell Biology - from Fundamental Research to Therapies RACE
HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-ACCESS Centre Of Excellence For Organic, Printed Electronics & Nanotechnologies COPE-Nano
HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-ACCESS Centre of Excellence for the Technologies of Gene and Cell Therapy CTGCT
HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-ACCESS PHAETHON Research and Innovation Centre of Excellence for Intelligent, Efficient and Sustainable Energy Solutions PHAETHON
HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-ACCESS Centre of Excellence of AI for Sustainable Living and Working SustAInLivWork
HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-ACCESS Creation of the centre of excellence in smart forestry Forest 4.0
HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-ACCESS QCIRCLE Center of Excellence: ACCELERATING QUANTUM IMPACT ON SUSTAINABILITY QCIRCLE
HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-ACCESS CENTRE FOR DATA ENRICHED MEDICINE (TEAMPERMED) TeamPerMed
HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-ACCESS Centre for Digitalisation of Biology Towards the Next-Generation of Biosustainable Products DIGIBIO
HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-ACCESS iMM-CARE: BOOSTING CLINICAL RESEARCH FOR THE BENEFIT OF SOCIETY iMM-CARE
HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-ACCESS NOVA Institute for Medical Systems Biology NIMSB
HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-ACCESS The Gene Therapy CoE at the Centre of Portugal GeneT
  EXCELLENCE HUBS  
HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-ACCESS A Greek-Turkish Solar Energy Excellence Hub to Advance the European Green Deal SolarHub
HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-ACCESS Promoting Innovation Excellence in Transformation of Coal Regions to Climate-Neutral, Thriving Economies COALition
HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-ACCESS Connected Hubs in Ageing: Healthy Living to Protect Cerebrovascular Function CHAngeing
HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-ACCESS Alzheimer's Disease Diagnostics Innovation and Translation to Clinical Practice in Central Europe ADDIT-CE
HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-ACCESS Blue Culture Technology Excellence Hubs in EU Widening Member States BCThubs
HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-ACCESS Excellence hub in green technologies: Introducing innovation ecosystems in the Mediterranean food value chain EXCEL4MED
HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-ACCESS Glass-ceramic innovation ecosystem for implementation of new research directions in applications GlaCerHub
HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-ACCESS Croatia-Cyprus Excellence Hub on Eco-Innovative Technologies for Healthy and Productive Seas SeaTecHub
HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-ACCESS Carbon Initiative for Climate-resilient Agriculture CARBONICA
HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-ACCESS MetaCities Excellence Hub in South-Eastern Europe METACITIES
HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-ACCESS Strengthening the capacity for excellence of Slovenian and Croatian innovation ecosystems to support the digital and green transitions of maritime regions INNO2MARE
HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-ACCESS VELES Excellence Hub - Strengthening the South-East Europe Smart Health Regional Excellence and Boosting the Innovation Potential VELES
HORIZON-WIDERA-2022-ACCESS Cyber-security Excellence Hub in Estonia and South Moravia CHESS

Widening participation and strengthening the European Research Area

Under Horizon Europe, the European Commission funds projects to strengthen research and innovation across Europe and beyond.

The 'Widening participation and spreading excellence' sub-programme contributes to building research and innovation capacity for countries lagging behind on R&I performance, in line with the policy objectives of the European Research Area.

The Work Programme 2023-2024 includes new Calls for Proposals for:

Teaming for Excellence: opened on 10 January 2022 with deadline to apply on 12 April 2023.

Excellence Hubs: opens on 28 September 2023 with deadline to apply on 7March 2024.

 

*This article was amended on 21 September 2023 to include hyperlinks for the projects that did not have a Cordis article when the article was first published

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21 February 2023
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European Research Executive Agency