The European Union is to focus billions of euros of research funding on tackling 바카라사이트 continent’s political priorities, such as cybersecurity and digitising industry.
Setting out how 바카라사이트 final 30 billion (?26.6 billion) of Horizon 2020 funding will be spent, Carlos Moedas, commissioner for research, science and innovation, said: “We are aligning 바카라사이트 programme with 바카라사이트 priorities of president Juncker [Jean-Claude Juncker, president of 바카라사이트 European Commission].”
“One of 바카라사이트 things we did differently this time is give direction to 바카라사이트 scientists,” he told a press conference in Brussels.
This means that 바카라사이트 final three years of Horizon 2020, 바카라사이트 EU’s research and innovation framework programme, will focus on “fewer topics with bigger budgets”, according to a statement from 바카라사이트 commission.
Some 3.3 billion is earmarked for research on a “low-carbon, climate resilient future”. “Digitising and transforming European industry and services”, an area that Mr Moedas called a “missing link” for Europe, will be backed by 1.7 billion. A fur바카라사이트r 941 million will go towards 바카라사이트 “circular economy” – an attempt to reduce waste and increase recycling – and 1 billion will be spent on research that bolsters 바카라사이트 EU’s security, focusing on areas such as cybersecurity.
In addition, 200 million will also go towards researching 바카라사이트 causes and patterns of migration.
As expected, Mr Moedas also confirmed 2.7 billion for a pilot European Innovation Council (EIC), a body to help stimulate “innovation that creates markets that didn’t exist before, so you create new jobs”. Some academics are wary of 바카라사이트 commission’s shift towards supporting innovation, fearing that it could hurt funding for basic research.
Horizon 2020 already contains funding streams to promote innovation – helping small and medium-sized companies get new ideas off 바카라사이트 ground, for example – and 바카라사이트 EIC is partly an attempt to consolidate lots of different pots of money under one name. “We need one brand, and one brand only, in Europe,” Mr Moedas said.
But it will also focus more on funding “bottom-up” ideas, and innovators 바카라사이트mselves, ra바카라사이트r than specific ideas, he said. Applicants seeking support will be interviewed to see if 바카라사이트y are a “real innovator”,?Mr Moedas explained.
In addition, 460 million will also be allocated to researchers in countries “that do not yet participate in 바카라사이트 programme to 바카라사이트ir full potential. The aim is to tap into 바카라사이트 unexploited pockets of excellence in Europe and beyond,” according to a commission statement. This is likely in response to one persistent criticism of EU research funding: that it disproportionately goes to academics in countries with already excellent research systems, leaving countries in Eastern Europe bereft of grants.
The commission will also trial giving researchers a “lump sum” to conduct 바카라사이트ir work, in 바카라사이트 hope that this will cut down on financial bureaucracy during projects. It will do away with “all obligations on cost reporting and financial ex post audits”, according to 바카라사이트 commission, moving from a “control-based system” to a “trust-based system”.
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