BRUSSELS (EJP)---Israel has started its participation in the landmark EU Horizon 2020 program for research and innovation, which is expected to bring over two billion dollars into Israel for scientific research and allow the country to be part of the international arena of present and future science and technology. Horizon 2020 is the biggest EU research and innovation programme ever with nearly €80 billion (($107 billion) of funding available over 7 years (2014 to 2020) – in addition to the private investment that this money will attract. It promises more breakthroughs, discoveries and world-firsts by taking great ideas from the lab to the market.

Horizon 2020 is the financial instrument implementing the Innovation Union, a Europe 2020 flagship initiative aimed at securing Europe's global competitiveness. It is seen as a mean to drive economic growth and create jobs.

Brussels (EJP). Izrael je započeo svoje sudjelovanje u "EU Horizon 2020"  programu za istraživanje i inovacije, od kojega se očekuje da će donijeti preko dva milijuna dolara  za znanstvena istraživanja  u Izraelu i omogućiti zemlji da bude dio internacionalne "arene" za sadašnju i buduću znanost i tehnologiju. "Horizon 2020" je najveći EU istraživački i inovacijski program sa skoro 80 biliona Eura (107 biliona dolara) fondova koji će biti na raspolaganju u toku 7 godina (2014-2020) uz dodatak privatnog investiranja koje će taj novac privući. On obećava mnoga otkrića i biti će prvi u svijetu  koji će prenijeti  velike ideje iz laboratorija  na tržište. Horizon 2020 je financijski instrument koji  implementira  inovacije u Uniji i osigurat će Europsku globalnu kompetitivnost. Pretpostavlja se da će potaknuti ekonomski rast i otvoriti radna mjesta.

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.. But Israel’s participation in the program had been jeopardized last year when the EU Commission published new guidelines barring any EU funds going to ventures located beyond the Green Line (the 1949 Armistice line) including east Jerusalem and the Golan Heights.

The Israeli government called the new rules ‘’unacceptable’’ and threatened not to participate in Horizon 2020 but after several weeks of negotiations in Jerusalem and in Brussels, Israel and the EU “agreed to disagree,” with Israel publishing its reservations in an appendix.

...'The agreement fully respects the EU's financial requirements while at the same time respects Israel's political sensitivities and preserving its principled positions,' said last November EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni in a joint statement....