EU agreement on future research and innovation programme
The Horizon Europe framework programme is taking shape and will base on 3 pillars: excellent science, global challenges, European industrial competitiveness and an innovative Europe. In addition, there are provisions to improve the programme's delivery for widening participation and strengthening the European Research Area. The common understanding between the Council and the European Parliament contains a number of improvements compared to the Commission´s proposal. The future negotiations will take place with the new Parliament and will also need to take into account the future overall agreement on the multiannual financial framework for 2021-2027. More.
III RICH Symposium, European Research Infrastructures: from WP 2020 calls to Horizon Europe
A third RICH Symposium on European Infrastructures will take place in Brussels on May 14, 2019. It will address the strategic Positioning of Research Infrastructures in a new Framework Programme Horizon Europe and the transition of ongoing projects into a new programme. Jan HRUŠÁK (ESFRI Chair) und Philippe Froissard (EC, DG RTD) will be among the speakers. More.
European Research and Innovation Days
An annual policy event will take place in Brussels on September 24-26, 2019. It will bring together world leaders from industry, finance, academia and business to debate and shape the future research and innovation landscape. Among the speakers will be ministers, commissioners, members of the European Parliament, researchers, as well as surprise guests each day. At the same time, the event aims to mobilise EU citizens and to increase awareness and understanding of the importance of research and innovation addressing the social challenges.
Call for applications for the selection of members of the Commission Expert Group “EIC Pilot Advisory Board”
The next EU framework programme for research and innovation (2021 - 2027) includes the legal establishment of the European Innovation Council (EIC). The goal of the EIC initiative is to put Europe at the forefront of the next wave of breakthrough and disruptive innovation that creates new markets in particular through combinations of the physical and the digital, of products and services, of technologies and business models. In order to support the various pilot activities and to prepare the future EIC, the Commission intends to establish an ‘EIC Pilot Advisory Board’. The Board is expected to consist of 15 to 20 high level experts, from various domains of Europe's innovation ecosystem, who will be appointed in a personal capacity, acting independently and in the public interest. Applications can be submitted until May 10, 2019.