EU Funding

Horizon Europe

The Government is currently negotiating the UK’s association to Horizon Europe, the €95.5 billion EU Research and Innovation Programme that runs from 2021 to 2027.

Association to the Horizon Europe programme will give UK scientists, researchers and businesses access to funding on equivalent terms to organisations in EU countries.

During the period of negotiation, UK entities are still eligible to apply for EU Horizon Europe funding and successful applications will be guaranteed by UKRI, meaning that successful applicants to Horizon Europe will receive the full value of their funding at their UK host institution for the lifetime of their grant.

If you are applying for funding please register your application at the earliest opportunity on the GaP system. Advice on applying for EU funding is available from our International Research Funding Officer, Brittany Mason, who can be contacted at ResearchGrants@ljmu.ac.uk.

Other European Funding schemes

Horizon 2020 (2014 to 2020)

Horizon 2020 projects currently running will continue to receive EU funding for the entire duration of their project.

Remember you will still need to follow the EU regulations, for example the publicity requirements and other obligations, outlined in the Grant Funding Agreement.

ESIF (2014-2020)

LJMU is proud to have worked with local SMEs across a number of sectors: low carbon, advanced manufacturing, health, and digital and creative, to share market and technological insights, develop innovative processes and services and explore future funding opportunities.

You can find out more about our ESIF (2014-2020) funded projects below, which have now closed:

Low Carbon Eco-Innovatory (LCEI)

Low Carbon Eco-Innovatory created innovative low carbon goods, processes and services, developed through collaborative partnerships between local companies in the Liverpool City Region and University researchers, students and academic staff.

LCR 4.0 START

LCR 4.0 START was designed to offer a proactive business outreach focused around digital strategy for business approach, aligning with and leveraging other support available within LCR that can support business growth of manufacturers and related supply chains and improve productivity, access to new markets and create higher-level jobs.

LCR Health MATTERS
Market Access and Adoption of Health Technologies – Tailored Support and Evaluation in Real World Settings

This project provided SMEs in the Liverpool City Region with support that will enable them to better understand, work with and sell to the NHS and health and social care markets.

Eco-I North West

Eco-I North West was a £14m business R&D programme on offer to businesses across the North West. Led by Lancaster University, LJMU were a partner in the Eco-I NW project which sought to support low carbon business innovations across the region. This was the first project of its kind that opened up such a huge regional resource to our local businesses.

LCR 4.0 Holistic

LCR4.0 Holistic programme was a fully integrated digital innovation support project that provided intensive support to a wide range of organisations beyond manufacturing. The project helped companies to harness the benefits and agility of increased digitalisation, to enable them to adapt their business to become part of stronger digitally enabled supply chain, better equipped to weather market fluctuations and sectoral changes.

Cheshire and Warrington 4.0

Cheshire and Warrington 4.0 expanded the proven LCR4.0 model into Cheshire and Warrington, linking businesses in the automotive and pharmaceutical industries with the University’s expertise. This project was tailored specifically to meet the needs of manufacturing and engineering businesses in Cheshire and Warrington to implement new Industry 4.0 technologies.

LCR Enhance

The LCR Enhance project aimed to improve leadership and management by offering a demand-led training package for SMEs and their employees in the LCR. The project upskilled participants currently fulfilling or with the future potential to undertake higher level management roles within the city-region’s business base, with long term impact in terms of improving technical competence, and as result productivity.

Enterprise Hub Skills

Enterprise Hub Skills simplified access to enterprise training and development by making Liverpool City Region a central hub for enterprise. Drawing together expert community organisations from across the region, Enterprise Hub Skills offered high-quality learning and development opportunities to build the enterprise skills and economic pathways for individuals. Through strategic engagement, the partnership ensured local residents, no matter what their background and circumstances, can access support to build an individual learning plan that supports enterprise development.

LCR Founders

The LCR Founders project was a partnership between LJMU and the University of Liverpool that supported entrepreneurship. It addressed a specific gap in the start-up eco-system in the Liverpool City Region with the promotion of an entrepreneurial founders-led culture that increases the creation of innovative and scalable start-ups from higher education. Overall the project aimed to increase entrepreneurship activities amongst students and graduates.

LJMU Graduate Futures

This project provided practical support to owners and leaders of LCR SMEs and LJMU’s student and graduate community. This project helped SMEs to capitalise on the skills and knowledge graduate talent can bring to bear on their business; and expanded the volume and range of professional-level placements and internships for LJMU student/graduates.

Health Enterprise Hub Innovation Exchange

The Health Enterprise Hub Innovation Exchange addressed market failures and exploited opportunities for economic growth in the health, social care and innovation sector. It supported Liverpool City Region (LCR) SMEs, across the innovation cycle, to develop and commercialise innovative products and services within sub-sectors where LCR is a market leader and has a smart specialization strategy (including assisted living, well-being, eHealth, children’s health and some life sciences). It boosted development of supra-sectoral technologies, like sensor technology and materials, and repurposed existing technologies through applying them to health and social care. It benefited innovation businesses whilst generating financial and service gains for the health and care sector.

LCR Activate

LCR Activate was a transformational project, which aimed to drive innovation into the sub region’s stock of digital and creative SMEs, via their engagement with a unified and seamless programme. It helped them adopt new technologies and apply these to product development, leveraging some of the prime sub regional assets including the world class facilities at Sci Tech Daresbury’s Hartree Centre.

LCR Future Energy

The project promoted the production and distribution of energy derived from renewable sources by strengthening the capability and capacity of innovative SMEs in the supply chain. The project was delivered across the Liverpool City Region, commencing in January 2017 and closing in December 2019.

Low Carbon Lancashire Innovation Hub (LoCaL-i)

Low Carbon Lancashire Innovation Hub (LoCaL-i) increased innovation in, and adoption of low carbon technologies across all sectors. The project was based at Lancaster University and administered through the Centre for Global Eco-Innovation (CGE) which is based in the Lancaster Environment Centre. The project aimed to build the R&D capacity of Lancashire businesses to deliver innovation which supports the transition towards a low carbon economy in all sectors.

Maritime Superskills

A collaboration of Mersey Maritime, Hugh Baird College, Wirral Met, MECNW, Logistics Academy and LJMU supported a nationally-aligned Trailblazer employer group to develop a complete pipeline of maritime/logistics/advanced manufacturing skills progression (Levels 3/4 to 7) for the key occupations to accelerate LCR SuperPort/Low Carbon/Advanced Manufacturing growth and productivity.

Please note:
The projects above received funding from the England European Regional Development Fund or European Social Fund as part of the European Structural and Investment Funds Growth Programme 2014-2020. The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government was the Managing Authority for European Regional Development Fund and the Department for Work and Pensions was the Managing Authority for the European Social Fund. Established by the European Union, the European Regional Development Fund helped local areas stimulate their economic development by investing in projects which will support innovation, businesses, create jobs and local community regenerations and the European Social Fund helps to support individuals to access training and education.
For more information visit GOV.UK's European Growth Funding webpage.
To view published summative assessments for the ESIF programme, including some of the projects above, please visit GOV.UK's Evaluation of the European Regional Development Fund 2014 to 2020.