Final evaluation of Horizon 2020

This evaluation study presents the main findings of the final evaluation of Horizon 2020 – the EU’s eighth research and innovation funding programme, with a budget of EUR 75.6 billion for the period 2014-2020. The core mission of the programme was to drive economic growth and create jobs through research and innovation (R&I) with a strong emphasis on excellent science, industrial leadership and tackling societal challenges.

This evaluation looks into the impacts of Horizon 2020 until 2023, building also on lessons from its predecessor FP7 and the interim evaluation performed in 2017. The evaluation also assesses the efficiency of the programme, its coherence with other initiatives, its relevance to societal needs and the overall added value it brings to the EU.

The analysis shows that the programme garnered immense interest, attracting over one million individual applications from 177 countries. It funded almost 35,000 projects involving 40,000 organisations. Overall, an additional EUR 159 billion would have been needed to fund all the high-quality proposals submitted.

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