Dates available
The Horizon Europe Brokerage Visits will take place throughout January to March 2025.
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Up to 15 delegates will be selected to join this visit. Innovate UK will fund and organise flights, accommodation, in-market travel, and daily subsistence costs for successful applicants. Innovate UK will endeavour to make reasonable adjustments for delegates throughout the initiative. Only one representative from each organisation will be funded.
About Horizon Europe Brokerage Visits
A UK delegation of up to 15 organisations from industry, research and academia (including Research and Technology Organisations (RTOs) and those from the Innovate UK Catapult Network) will be selected to join us at the Horizon Europe Brokerage visits at the start of 2025. The visits will take place in Italy, Germany and Spain and will focus on the following sectors:
- Hydrogen and battery technologies
- Smart manufacturing
Innovate UK in partnership with the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT), the UK Science & Innovation Network & the UK National Contact Points (NCPs) will be leading these Horizon Europe Brokerage Visits.
Aims and Objectives
- Working with academia and industry (including RTOs and Catapults) to expand UK SME connections with businesses throughout Europe
- Boosting UK participation and funding share in culture, creativity and building an inclusive society by establishing new multilateral collaborations with key European countries.
- Creating a network of UK business and research organisations with high potential and/or strong ambition for future Horizon Europe collaborations, targeting sectors that are a priority to the UK.
Agenda
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This session will cover how the UK can benefit from participating in Horizon Europe. National Contact Points (NCPs) will provide an overview of UK–Horizon Europe research and innovation landscape that can help innovators partner with European businesses with relevant research and industry expertise in the target countries.
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The UK delegation and in-country participants will deliver a 5-minute pitch to showcase their idea or technology to industry experts and explore partnership opportunities with European/UK organisations to form a consortium.
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A series of workshops will be delivered by an NCP with UK and target country participants to look at sector challenges and opportunities to co-develop potential cross-border solutions. In addition, participants will be guided through the Horizon Europe application process with support from NCP’s in how to build a consortium and proposal writing for upcoming opportunities.
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Innovate UK Business Connect will provide participants with the opportunity for the UK delegation to network with the target country participants and start thinking about consortium building. A networking lunch or dinner hosted by Innovate UK Business Connect or the UK Embassy and the in-country participants will also be organised to enable the delegation and target country to share their lessons learnt as well as exchange contact details to stay in touch and continue to collaborative after the brokerage visit.
Upcoming Horizon Europe brokerage visits
Please note that you must be a UK registered organisation (a corporate company, small business or university) to be eligible to apply for these opportunities.
Applications for the Italy, Spain and Germany visits have now closed.
Previous Horizon Europe Brokerage Visit Highlights
Take a look at these news articles to discover how the key moments from the Horizon Europe Brokerage Visits that have now been delivered: