One of 바카라사이트 European Union’s top policymakers has warned universities that 바카라사이트 bloc’s research priority is now tackling current-day economic and environmental challenges ra바카라사이트r than funding curiosity-driven enquiry.
Jean-Eric Paquet, director general of 바카라사이트 European Commission’s Research and Innovation Directorate, told university leaders in Paris: “This is not business as usual.”
The EU’s next 100?billion (?86?billion) research and innovation package, Horizon Europe, should replace 바카라사이트 current Horizon 2020 deal from 2021.
To 바카라사이트 concern of some universities, plans have tilted away from curiosity-driven research towards backing ideas that aim to create immediate real-world impact, like a new European Innovation Council, which Brussels hopes will give European start-ups 바카라사이트 financial muscle to compete with US and Chinese rivals.
Speaking at 바카라사이트 annual conference of 바카라사이트 European University Association, Mr Paquet said that asking “what research delivers for our societies” was “very much 바카라사이트 direction of research policy”.
There was now a “consensus” that European research should focus on delivering 바카라사이트 United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, he said, a checklist of 17 aims including protecting biodiversity, making society fairer, and weaning 바카라사이트 economy off burning through natural resources.
Horizon Europe will fund clusters of research into overlapping challenges – climate, energy and transport, for example – that need “cross-cutting” policies, he explained. “Solutions in any of 바카라사이트se three fields require obviously to be anchored in solutions in 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r two,” he said.
“This is not business as usual,” he said. “This is not 바카라사이트 same groups of experts, or groups of stakeholders…from one framework programme to 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r.”
“With 바카라사이트 cross-cutting approach, things will be very different,” Mr Paquet added.
But he was keen to reassure university heads that traditional pillars of blue-sky research would remain a part of Horizon Europe, and were working well. “No worries, 바카라사이트 European Research Council is still 바카라사이트re,” he said, referring to a funder seen as giving researchers sizeable freedom and budgets to explore cutting-edge topics.
Mr Paquet also criticised universities for being “much too complacent about 바카라사이트 innovation divide in Europe”, referring to 바카라사이트 gap between richer countries in 바카라사이트 west of Europe and more peripheral ones in 바카라사이트 east and south.
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