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The EU has provided funding from a range of different sources. The exact figure will depend on the definition of health, the time frame and the extent to which we have access to data.

The main sources of EU funding for R&D for Health in the last 5 years in Wales have been Horizon 2020 and the European Regional Development Fund.

As expenditure is eligible on these programmes from 2014 to 2023, many projects approved before 2018 remained active after that. We have identified grants of £26 million awarded to projects primarily active in the field of health since January 2018. Since 2014, the EU has funded £60m of health projects in Wales.

In addition, many projects are not sector-specific so support health as part of a wider remit. In the 2014-20 period these broader projects included significant budgets such as £40m for the innovation strands of the Development Bank of Wales’ Business Fund, £38m for Sêr Cymru and £40 million for KESS (Knowledge Economy Skills Scholarships).

These figures represent the EU grant to Welsh project leads, not the total project funding. For Horizon 2020 projects in particular, the EU programme allowed Welsh organisations to take part in projects that were much larger than the direct Welsh involvement, with access to global consortia. The total value of the projects in all fields in which Wales participated was over €2.5 billion.

Last five years, i.e. grant signed from January 2018 onwards

Approvals from 2014-2017

All approvals 2014-20

Horizon 2020

Health Theme

2,933,166

2,386,127

5,319,293

MSCA (where relevant to Health)

2,928,464

3,789,509

6,717,974

ERC (where relevant to Health)

1,642,447

6,985,408

8,627,855

FET (where relevant to Health)

1,892,470

1,862,839

3,755,309

Others (eg FTI relevant to Health)

220,716

2,918,361

3,139,077

€ Total

9,617,264