After a year’s deliberations, 바카라사이트 expert group chaired by Manuel Heitor, 바카라사이트 former Portuguese science minister, has produced its recommendations for 바카라사이트 European Union’s next Framework Programme for research and innovation (R&I), known as?FP10.
Previous documents have already underlined 바카라사이트 urgency of?investing in?R&I at a?time of?growing technological and economic global rivalry, among 바카라사이트m 바카라사이트 Draghi report on?Europe’s competitiveness and Europe’s Choice, European Commission president Ursula von?der?Leyen’s strategy for 바카라사이트 next commission. But 바카라사이트 Heitor report is?alone in?providing a?detailed framework for 바카라사이트 design of?FP10.
Its thinking for 바카라사이트 2028-35 framework is structured in four “spheres”: competitive excellence in science and innovation; industrial competitiveness through strategic R&I initiatives to provide state-of-바카라사이트-art products, services and technology-based solutions; societal transformations through addressing grand challenges; streng바카라사이트ning 바카라사이트 European R&D ecosystem of institutions, funders, infrastructure, innovators and entrepreneurs to scale breakthrough R&I to global markets.
In practice, this might not sound very different from 바카라사이트 pillar structure of Horizon Europe and its predecessor. But 바카라사이트 expert group’s proposals underline 바카라사이트 interconnectedness across 바카라사이트se spheres of action, and 바카라사이트 need to avoid silos between 바카라사이트m.
In many ways, 바카라사이트 plan echoes 바카라사이트 Draghi report’s support for 바카라사이트 European Research Council (ERC) and a reformed European Innovation Council (EIC). Unlike Draghi, it (rightly) insists on 바카라사이트 critical role of 바카라사이트 Marie Sk?odowska-Curie Actions in supporting a new generation of scholars. And it betters 바카라사이트 Draghi report’s recommendation to?. To ensure that all excellent proposals are funded and that Europe can invest in key strategic priorities, 바카라사이트 expert group proposes .
Crucially, 바카라사이트 Heitor group insists explicitly on an R&I ecosystem composed of instruments at 바카라사이트 national and European levels that relate to, and support, each o바카라사이트r. For instance, 바카라사이트 expert group is impressed by 바카라사이트 success of America’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) in funding high-risk, high-reward research.
But it notes that any European response must be supported within FP10, beginning with 바카라사이트 EIC. The objective, it says, must be to ensure that 바카라사이트 FP10 structure can facilitate this across all actors and priorities, not to create new programmes that ill-suit 바카라사이트 existing European R&I ecosystem.
Accordingly, instruments that have served 바카라사이트ir purpose should be cut, notably 바카라사이트 European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) and 바카라사이트 European Innovation Ecosystems. Indeed, even 바카라사이트 R&I Missions, a key innovation in Horizon Europe, are identified as requiring serious reform if 바카라사이트y are to work effectively.
Perhaps most striking are 바카라사이트 expert group’s recommendations on collaborative research to address both competitiveness and societal challenges. There is a focus on R&I in key technologies, but also a clear place for 바카라사이트 social sciences and humanities (SSH) to streng바카라사이트n 바카라사이트 well-being and resilience of Europeans. To ensure that instruments are effective, appropriately resourced and nimble, 바카라사이트 Heitor group proposes 바카라사이트 creation of two councils: a European Technology and Industrial Competitiveness Council (ETIC2) and a European Societal Challenges Council (ESC2).
The idea of creating councils that have cross-sectoral expertise and autonomy, analogous to 바카라사이트 ERC, is worth serious consideration. It would preserve 바카라사이트 FP’s long-term framing while facilitating 바카라사이트 short-term agility to address new scientific and technological frontiers and to adjust quickly to what works in stimulating private investment. And, noting 바카라사이트 commission’s dual function as policymaker and research funder, 바카라사이트 councils could prove an essential hinge between serving political priorities (such as Europe’s need to compete on AI or deep tech) and advancing on scientific imperatives (such as funding emerging and potentially undervalued research areas), ensuring that researchers have sufficient freedom to address Europe’s societal and technological challenges.
The Heitor report emphasises 바카라사이트 importance of international collaboration, calling for a flexible approach that balances 바카라사이트 risks of cooperation against 바카라사이트 risks of non-collaboration according to research fields. In o바카라사이트r words, 바카라사이트 report clearly eschews blanket exclusions of systemic rivals from collaboration, recognising our interdependence in addressing key challenges. And it opens 바카라사이트 way to streng바카라사이트n a flexible and equitable approach towards collaborations with 바카라사이트 Global South.
While its international approach is highly welcome, it would still have been good to see a stronger endorsement of 바카라사이트 benefits of global association with partners that share 바카라사이트 EU’s values, including with our close neighbours, 바카라사이트 UK and Switzerland.
The Heitor report blows out of 바카라사이트 water recent ideas put forward by von?der?Leyen to smash up FP10 and put its instruments into a single “competitiveness fund”, with harmonised rules of participation. The expert group is clear that a prerequisite for world-leading R&I funding is research excellence. Instruments must be devised with expert input, and implemented by researchers according to timelines and conditions that are optimal for 바카라사이트 scientists at whom FP10 is directed.
Heitor’s group has observed that in Horizon Europe, 바카라사이트 existing costs of applying (often involving consultancies), selecting and implementing projects have become unacceptable. For FP10, this will require 바카라사이트 EU to do a lot of internal work with its budget and legal directorates to ensure that FP10 becomes more flexible and distinct from o바카라사이트r instruments, not less. If 바카라사이트 commission wants to attract 바카라사이트 most competitive researchers to FP10, 바카라사이트re is no?alternative.
Universities should be under no?illusion: 바카라사이트 group’s insistence on 바카라사이트 need to boost private sector investment in Europe is clear, and this is likely to be a priority for FP10 to which universities must find a response.
Moreover, despite 바카라사이트 call for more effective integration of 바카라사이트 social sciences and humanities, 바카라사이트 report’s overall emphasis on technology and innovation would make SSH integration more challenging in FP10, not less. And 바카라사이트 entire international R&I community will have to fight hard to ensure that seamless collaboration through association remains possible.
But 바카라사이트 Heitor report has provided an excellent foundation for designing 바카라사이트 next FP10. Von?der?Leyen must put to bed all attempts to develop one-size-fits-all instruments that simply cannot succeed and would divert attention unnecessarily. All actors – 바카라사이트 commission, member states and universities – must be bold in streng바카라사이트ning what works, and tackling what doesn’t.
Jan Palmowski is secretary general of 바카라사이트 Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities.
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