Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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816. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total funding successfully drawn down by each HEI as part of the 2014 – 2020 Horizon programme; the amount successfully drawn down each year by each HEI from 2014, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41689/21]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The attached table provides the total funding successfully drawn down by each Higher Education Institution (HEI) as part of the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (Horizon 2020) and the amount successfully drawn down each year by each HEI from 2014, in tabular form.

These figures are accurate on the date of access from the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 dashboard database, 1 September 2021.

The Framework Programmes for Research and Innovation are vital instruments for Ireland’s international research and innovation collaboration. In Horizon 2020, Ireland has so far won €1.18 billion in funding, and Irish researchers and innovators have particularly excelled in Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions and the European Research Council. As the attached table shows, Ireland’s HEIs have been active participants in Horizon 2020, with substantial funding being won across HEIs and regions in Ireland, and by both the Universities and Institutes of Technology. 

Horizon Europe is the ninth iteration of the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation.  It was officially launched on 02 February 2021. Running from 2021-2027, Horizon Europe is the most ambitious Research and Innovation programme in the world with a budget of €95.5 billion. Building on the achievements of Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe offers a broad range of opportunities for Irish researchers, innovators and Irish companies of all sizes in the pursuit of new discoveries, scientific and technological advancement and innovation.