{"id":724459,"date":"2026-06-09T04:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T04:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/724459\/"},"modified":"2026-06-09T04:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T04:55:11","slug":"european-union-and-australia-successfully-conclude-horizon-europe-negotiations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/724459\/","title":{"rendered":"European Union and Australia successfully conclude Horizon Europe negotiations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the European Commission and Australia have successfully concluded negotiations on Australia\u2019s association to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/commission.europa.eu\/funding-tenders\/find-funding\/eu-funding-programmes\/horizon-europe_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Horizon Europe<\/a>, the EU&#8217;s flagship \u20ac93.5 billion research and innovation funding programme. Australia will associate to Pillar II of Horizon Europe, which addresses societal challenges\u00a0in the\u00a0digital,\u00a0industry\u00a0and space; climate,\u00a0energy\u00a0and mobility; and food,\u00a0bioeconomy\u00a0and agriculture\u00a0fields.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ekaterina\u202fZaharieva, European Commissioner for Startups, Research, and Innovation said:\u00a0 &#8220;We can tackle the challenges of tomorrow only together. That is why the future of science and technology depends on strong international partnerships, like the one between the EU and Australia. Together,\u00a0we\u2019ve\u00a0already delivered breakthroughs such as the Square Kilometre Array, one of the world\u2019s most advanced radio telescopes. By combining our strengths in industry, space, climate action, and the bioeconomy, we will drive the next generation of transformative innovations.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This milestone formalises an already thriving scientific partnership. To date under Horizon Europe, Australian organisations have\u00a0participated\u00a0in 239 projects. Highlighting the world-class calibre and exceptional quality of its research ecosystem,\u00a0nearly one\u00a0in four individual applications from Australia is selected for participation in the programme &#8211; resulting in an impressive 24.39% success rate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>From January 2027, under a transitional arrangement, Australian entities will transition from third-country rules &#8211; where they typically had to self-fund or rely on narrow exceptions for funding &#8211; to being treated as &#8216;eligible entities&#8217; from an associated country. This will grant them direct, routine access to EU funding under Pillar II on equal terms with EU Member States, such as allowing them to lead project consortia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Media release by the Hon Tim Ayres, Minister for Industry and Innovation and Minister for Science: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.minister.industry.gov.au\/ministers\/timayres\/media-releases\/access-worlds-largest-research-fund-horizon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.minister.industry.gov.au\/ministers\/timayres\/media-releases\/access-worlds-largest-research-fund-horizon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today, the European Commission and Australia have successfully concluded negotiations on Australia\u2019s association to\u00a0Horizon Europe, the EU&#8217;s flagship&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-724459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}