The ESFRI Roadmap 2021 Launch Event that was planned to take place on December 7, 2021, in Ljubljana, Slovenia, has been transformed to a fully digital event, due to pandemic restrictions. ESFRI will present the 2021 ESFRI Roadmap on Large Scale Research Infrastructures during a half-day online conference. The event is hosted by the Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the EU, as part of the ESFRI Days event, and will be live streamed in full via ESFRI YouTube channel.
Registration for this event is optional, but highly encouraged by the organizers. Register HERE.
The New ERA Conference was held on October 26/27, 2021 in Slovenia. Find here the summary published on November 23, 2021, with a summary of a large amount of ideas discussed at the conference by the policy officials, researchers, funders, research performing organizations and industry in the form of recommendations.
The Council on November 26, 2021 adopted conclusions on the governance of the European Research Area (ERA) and a Pact for research and innovation (R&I) in Europe, setting out priorities and a streamlined governance framework for the ERA, including an ERA policy agenda for 2022-2024.
Find here the press release of the Council of the European Union, the adopted conclusions and the Pact for Research and innovation.
The European Commission published a report called Monitoring the open access policy of Horizon 2020. The report examines, monitors and quantifies compliance with the open access requirements of Horizon 2020, for both publications and research data.
Not only has this study been commissioned to measure current compliance to open access research policies under Horizon 2020, but to also plan for future grant programs to support beneficiaries in the areas they identified as needing improvement.
On November 12, 2021, the European Commission and Armenia have signed the agreement granting the Republic of Armenia the association status to Horizon Europe, the EU’s research and innovation programme (2021-2027). Armenian researchers, innovators and research entities can now participate in the €95.5 billion programme, under the same conditions as entities from the EU Member States.
Read the full EC press release here.
The EU has launched the SpaceResearch calls. Total budget over 200M.The grants will fund projects in 22 topics with start dates 2022 and 2023. See the 2021 calls here and the 2022 calls here.
Deadline for applications: February 16, 2022
Date: December 2, 2021, 10:00-12:00 CET. Find all information here.
