While the European Commission has made Open Source a strategic focus for its development, it can be difficult to identify the opportunities offered by the European Commission to support Open Source-based R&D projects (discover all the European Open Source project calls on our dedicated page).

Launched in June, with a budget of €95.5 billion from 2021-2027, the Horizon Europe programme is the European Union’s framework programme for research. Open to all entities based in the European Union (Start-ups, SMEs, ETIs, Large Groups, Research Centres, Universities, Associations, Local Authorities, …), the programme offers research actors various funding opportunities, ranging from individual grants of €20,000 to large-scale collaborative projects with grants of up to several tens of millions of euros.

– Program –

I. Introduction: What is “Horizon Europe”?

By Romain TURMINEL, Systematic 

and Cédric THOMAS, OW2

II. Latest policy developments on Open Source
in the European Commission

By Luis Carlos BUSQUETS PEREZ, European Commission

III. [Cluster Industry – Digital – Space ]
Presentation of “Open source for cloud-based services”
Presentation of “Programming tools for decentralised intelligence and swarms”

By Luis Carlos BUSQUETS PEREZ, European Commission

IV. [Cluster Industry – Digital – Space ]
Presentation of “Internet architecture and decentralised technologies”

By Jean-Luc DOREL, European Commission

V. Presentation of 4 Topics
from the cluster “Industry – Digital – Space”
& 8 Topics from the other clusters

By Romain TURMINELSystematic 

VI. Feedback on a Horizon2020 project set-up

By Alessandra BAGNATOSofteam 

and Cédric THOMAS, OW2

With the exceptional participation of the project officers
of the European Commission:

Jean-Luc DOREL
Programme Officer at the European Commission
in charge of the
“Next Generation Internet” priority
Luis Carlos BUSQUETS PEREZ
Programme Officer
in DG CONNECT E2