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The European Research Area aims to create a single, borderless market for research, innovation and technology across the EU. The new Commission's Communication reviews the progress on four key objectives: 🔹 Prioritising investment and reforms 🔹 Improving access to excellence 🔹 Translating results into economic impact 🔹 Deepening the research area While the EU has made significant progress, more work is needed to fully unlock its R&I potential to compete on the global stage. https://eu.smh.re/0WKC

The European Research Area aims to create a single, borderless market for research, innovation and technology across the EU. The new Commission's Communication reviews the progress on four key objectives: 🔹 Prioritising investment and reforms 🔹 Improving access to excellence 🔹 Translating results into economic impact 🔹 Deepening the research area While the EU has made significant progress, more work is needed to fully unlock its R&I potential to compete on the global stage. https://eu.smh.re/0WLh

The European Research Area aims to create a single, borderless market for research, innovation and technology across the EU. The new Commission's Communication reviews the progress on four key objectives: 🔹 Prioritising investment and reforms 🔹 Improving access to excellence 🔹 Translating results into economic impact 🔹 Deepening the research area While the EU has made significant progress, more work is needed to fully unlock its R&I potential to compete globally. https://eu.smh.re/0WJ5

🇪🇺 The Future of European Competitiveness #2: If we look at the federal support for R&D Funding in Europe, you can see that it is still very heavily based on national initiatives, and the EU-Fundings are taking a rather small amount of that - around 6-7%. So we still have the issue of the fragmentation of the Single Market that hinders the growth stage from scaling up in the EU. This can be solved if the Support for R&D would move more and more on an EU-wide level. (instead of national) Bernhard Sagmeister Kambis Kohansal Vajargah Jacopo Losso How do you see that matter?

The Draghi report on EU competitiveness is out. There is lots to like, with many important suggestions which I have also pointed to in publications, particularly my recent policy brief on technological sovereignty (see link in commment) - Better integrated capital markets, more budget for European Investment Fund (EIF) and coordation with EIC, to foster venture capital - scaling up of start ups in Europe - more top level universities, with doubling of ERC Budget and the introduction of an "ERC for institutions", something which I have long been calling for (link in second comment) - more EU-level R&D spending - doubling of current horizon to 200bn euros, with a higher share going to the (potential) EU equivalent of ARPA - a reformed EIC - a more coordinated approach -modern industrial strategies involve a mix of innovation, trade and competition policies, coordinated on a case-by-case basis to allow for a specific response to a specific problem (what I have called "choosing the policy mix as a function of the distance to the frontier). - A higher share of spending through the EIC will in my view also allow for a more focused approach to tackle EU-level deficits, and why not put the EIC in the driving seat for the IPCEIs? - which the report suggests to expand as well https://lnkd.in/ef-weGDv

Are you a researcher or institution looking for European Union funding and collaboration opportunities? EURAXESS has hosted an insightful webinar on Horizon Europe, the largest-ever EU funding programme for research and innovation with a €95.5 billion budget for 2021-2027! The info session delves into Pillar II: "Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness," focusing on how Canadian and US institutions/researchers can apply to open calls. With €53.5 billion dedicated to this pillar, the opportunities are vast! The webinar features an array of leading speakers, including the EU Delegation to the US, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada | Innovation, Sciences et Développement économique Canada, NCURA: National Council of University Research Administrators, Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología, FECYT, and EURAXESS North America. Click the link below to watch the webinar! https://lnkd.in/eqzaM9MN #HorizonEurope #ResearchFunding #Innovation #EUFunding #InternationalCollaboration #ResearchAndDevelopment #Webinar

🌍𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐏𝐀’𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭, “𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐀𝐜𝐭 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞. 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡, 𝐓𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬”. The Heitor report provides a comprehensive analysis of the European Research and Development Framework Programme, effectively outlining strengths and shortcomings within its vast landscape. It offers twelve high-level recommendations aimed at enhancing the programme’s positive impact, and this is an effort that we commend and appreciate. While the report makes some proposals towards a future Framework Programme, it may need some further consideration and refinement prior to implementation. We urge caution however regarding proposed changes to Pillar 2. To share our perspective, we’ve issued an open letter, highlighting the importance of refining these recommendations and reinforcing collaboration across academia, research, and industry to drive Europe’s competitiveness and shared prosperity. Reinforcing a strategy that unites Europe’s best capabilities across academia, research, and industry is essential for the future of a Union that deploys its full potential as a driver of innovation, competitiveness, and shared prosperity. Make sure to read our open letter and share it with your network 👇

🚨 Europe, Time to Invest in Future! 📢 IMA-Europe, together with over 110 European Reasearch, Development, and Innovation associations in calling for an ambitious #FP10 ✍ 🚀 The EU needs to significantly increase funding for the next Framework Programme for Research and Innovation. This is critical to ensure Europe's competitiveness in the global innovation race 📈 🤝 🎙 The Joint Statement for an Ambitious FP10 emphasizes: 🔹 Increased Public Funding: The EU FP10 budget needs a major boost ☑ 🔹National Investment Commitments: Member states must commit to a minimum of 3% GDP investment in RD&I ☑ 🔹Collaborative Research Focus: Pan-European research efforts are key to leveraging our collective expertise ☑ 🔹Public-Private Partnerships: Stronger collaboration is needed to bridge the gap between research and market ☑ 👉 Let's invest in Europe's future ✍ 🤝 More information and full document 👇 🔗 https://shorturl.at/FwvEs #Research #Innovation #Competitiveness #Development #FP10 #Europe #Future #Together #IMAEurope #IndustrialMineralsAssociation

Why investing in research and innovation matters for a competitive, green, and fair Europe? Arationale for public and private action Possible pathways to strengthen R&I efforts and impact: 🌷The rapid transition of emerging technologies from demonstration and prototype stages to widespread market adoption is essential. 🌷Rethink industrial policy to be fit for purpose for future technologies.  🌷To further boost knowledge valorisation processes, the distinctive skills and competencies of social sciences and humanities can be exploited better to reach beyond functionality. 🌷Leveraging partnerships to facilitate investments and strengthen capacities. 🌷The twin transitions, with their need for deep changes in behaviours, practices, governance modes as well as institutions, call for modern R&I policy approaches that help us transform systems 🌷R&I flourishes when Member States have the right R&I capabilities.  🌷Strengthen R&I policy coordination in the context of the European Semester can help ensuring an integrated approach. 🌷Making the innovation ecosystem more open, diverse, and attractive to talents from a variety of neglected sources. 🌷 Simplification and harmonisation of funding. 🌷 Strengthen visibility and outreach of R&I funding programmes to increase impacts and uptake of results. #ERAHubs

To be honest, I think it is mild to call it 'missing an open goal' and more appropriately labelled as 'counterproductive'. Pushing the FMiA Act as Australia's version of the Inflation Reduction Act and driving funding avenues towards renewables and climate action is good, but missing an easy chance to tap into European funding which aligns with your goals is confusing. Aligning with Horizon Europe would have re-established project support with a region recently dropped from other schemes (done so to focus on Asia Pacific partners). Europe's program is nearly 8x's that of FMiA, and Pillar 2 is twice FMiA. When other Asia Pacific partners are aligning, why wouldn't the Australian government consider joining? Innovation and growth rely on collaboration - and fostering more of it should be everyone's goal, especially when research funding is anemically low and dwindling, NOT aligning with this program is nothing short of counterproductive. #collaboration #research #innovation #industry