EU-HORIZON 2020 Societal challenges - Smart, Green and Integrated Transport - 2014-2020

Instrument/Program level: 
European
Name of the instrument/Program: 
HORIZON 2020
Instrument/Program application areas: 
Societal challenges - Smart, Green and Integrated Transport
Instrument/Program eligible areas: 
BELGIUM
CZECH REPUBLIC
DANMARK
GERMANY
EESTI
IRELAND
SPAIN
FRANCE
CROATIA
ITALY
LATVIA
LITHUANIA
LUXEMBOURG
HUNGARY
MALTA
NETHERLANDS
AUSTRIA
POLAND
PORTUGAL
ROMANIA
SWITZERLAND
SLOVENIA
SLOVAKIA
FINLAND
SWEDEN
UNITED KINGDOM
GREECE
CYPRUS
BULGARIA
Managing authority: 

Directorate-General for Research and Innovation European Commission

Objectives: 

To achieve a European transport system that is resilient, resource-efficient, climate- and environmentally friendly, safe and seamless for the benefit of all citizens, the economy and society.

Eligible thematics in line with ERC sectors: 
Physical Sciences and Engineering
Social Sciences and Humanities
Eligible thematics in line with S3: 
Aerospace, Aeronautics and Space
Automotive
Blue growth
City development
Entrepreneurship & Growth of young companies
Environmental technologies, renewable energies & resource efficiency
Logistic
Maritime technologies
Sustainable innovation & infrastructure
Sustainable Living & mobility
Action typologies: 
Establishing and further strengthening transnational innovation networks and clusters, also supporting their internationalisation
Development of transnational schemes for infrastructure sharing for research and innovation (knowledge transfer centres, B2B initiatives)
International and inter-sector collaboration through research and innovation staff exchanges; sharing of knowledge and ideas from research to market (and vice-versa)
Support of collaboration of organisations dealing with economic development to improve their effectiveness in enhancing the internationalisation of the local business sector
Implementation of services for knowledge intensive startups with the strong potential to internationalize
Strengthen the networking and cooperation between the industrial smart systems integration stakeholder community in Europe and support to international collaboration
Beneficiaries: 
Local public authority
Regional public authority
National public authority
Sectorial agency
Infrastructure and (public) service provider
Interest groups including NGOs
Higher education and research
Education/training centre and school
Start up
Large enterprise, enterprise excluding SME
SME
Business support organisation
EGTC
General public
International organization, EEIG under national law
Status of the eligible institutions: 
Public
Private
Public equivalent body
International organisation
Program contribution maximum: 
70%
Program Budget: 
6 339 000 000,00 €