Funding by sector
Seven sectors, because that is how the funders divide the money.
These are not categories we invented to organise a website. They are the clusters the work programmes themselves are written against, which is why every programme in the database already carries one.
Horizon Cluster 1: Health
Health & Life Sciences
Funding that expects a clinical plan, not just a hypothesis.
What it fundsHorizon Cluster 4: Digital, Industry and Space
Digital & AI
Software moves faster than the funding cycle. That is the problem to manage.
What it fundsHorizon Cluster 4: Digital, Industry and Space
Industry & Space
Capital-intensive projects, where own contribution is the real gate.
What it fundsHorizon Cluster 5: Climate, Energy and Mobility
Energy & Climate
The largest budgets in European funding, and the largest consortia.
What it fundsHorizon Cluster 6: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Food & Agriculture
Most of the money here is not in Horizon at all.
What it fundsHorizon Cluster 3: Civil Security for Society
Defence & Security
A separate programme, with eligibility rules that come first.
What it fundsHorizon Cluster 2: Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Society
Culture & Society
Smaller awards, more of them, and almost no capacity to chase them.
What it funds
If none of them fit
Your sector is a filter, not your eligibility
Plenty of projects sit across two of these, and some of the largest instruments are not sector-bound at all: the EIC funds deeptech wherever it comes from. So a sector page is a way in, not a gate.
What actually decides whether you can apply is your organisation, your project and where you are registered. That is a screening question rather than a browsing one, and it is what the platform does.
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