Documents & Analysis
In-depth interim evaluation of HORIZON 2020
This Staff Working Document represents the interim evaluation of Horizon 2020, the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation 2014-2020. Horizon 2020 was designed to drive economic growth and create jobs by coupling research and innovation (R&I), with an emphasis on excellent science, industrial leadership and tackling societal challenges. The general objective is to contribute to the EU's overarching jobs and growth strategy by: helping to build a society and an economy based on knowledge and innovation across the Union; by leveraging additional research, development and innovation funding; and by contributing to attaining R&I targets, including the target of 3% of GDP for R&I across the Union by 2020.
- Posted on: 31.05.2017
- Belgium
- Year of publication: 2017
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This evaluation assesses Horizon 2020's current progress towards its objectives. The findings will contribute to the last Work Programme for 2018 –2020, will provide the evidence-base for the report of the High Level Expert Group on maximizing the impact of EU Research and Innovation programmes and will inform the design of future Framework Programmes. An interim evaluation, when the first projects have only started three years ago, has obvious limitations. Science and innovation are long term and risky endeavours creating impact that can only very partially be captured after such a short period. A monitoring system with indicators to systematically track impact (in particular for societal challenges) is found to be wanting.
