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Establishing Horizon Europe, the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, for the period 2028-2034 laying down its rules for participation and dissemination, and repealing Regulation (EU) 2021/695
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Establishing Horizon Europe, the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, for the period 2028-2034 laying down its rules for participation and dissemination, and repealing Regulation (EU) 2021/695
Document ITRE-AM-786960 · COM(2025)0543 – 2025/0543(COD)
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Ivars Ijabs, Elisabetta Gualmini, Christophe Grudler, Sophie Wilmès, Barry Andrews, Morten Løkkegaard, Michał Kobosko, Bart Groothuis, Martin Hojsík
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| (23 a) (new) Given the increasing risks related to cyber threats, foreign interference, including foreign information manipulation and interference, and espionage, the Programme should ensure that research outcomes, intellectual property and sensitive data are appropriately protected throughout the research and innovation lifecycle. This should include fostering a culture of security awareness among researchers, strengthening the resilience of research and technology infrastructures, and promoting cooperation among relevant stakeholders to identify, assess and mitigate emerging risks. Research security should be integrated as a cross-cutting priority of the Programme, with a view to safeguarding the integrity, confidentiality, and resilience of research and innovation activities and their results, while preserving openness and international cooperation. |
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| (23a) There is a key need to involve the public and to raise risk awareness, and for continuous education and training in emergency management, measures which should be encouraged in order to develop the appropriate skills at all levels of society. Last but not least, the lessons learned from previous crises need to be systematically incorporated into future policies and mechanisms by means of regular assessments and simulation exercises, thus contributing to the continuous improvement of response capacity and building long-term resilience. |
Continuous education and training for all actors and citizens in the field of emergency management should be encouraged in order to develop the appropriate skills at all levels of society and to enable rapid intervention and the efficient management of such situations.
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| (23a) Agriculture and food security are of strategic importance for the Union’s competitiveness, resilience and strategic autonomy. In the face of increasing global market volatility, climate risks and geopolitical disruptions, stable and predictable funding for agricultural and food-related research and innovation is essential. The Programme should therefore ensure dedicated and protected funding for agriculture and food security, safeguarding these priorities against dilution within broader policy areas. |
Lina Gálvez, Elena Sancho Murillo, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Christophe Clergeau, Giorgio Gori, Matthias Ecke, René Repasi
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| (23 a) In Pillar II ‘Competitiveness and Society’, research and innovation activities in health should include targeted actions addressing areas of unmet need and market failure, including where barriers to innovation and investment persist. |
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| (24) Activities should reflect the importance of tackling the dramatic loss of biodiversity and contribute to the preservation and restoration of nature, ecosystems and their services. The integration of environmental science in activities is necessary to avoid damage to the environment, to maintain clean environment and to restore heathy ecosystems. | (24) Activities should reflect the importance of tackling the dramatic loss of biodiversity and contribute to the preservation and restoration of nature, ecosystems and their services. The integration of environmental science in activities is necessary to avoid damage to the environment, to maintain a clean environment and to restore healthy ecosystems, but also to promote sustainable agricultural and forestry practices that reduce pressures on ecosystems and help maintain soil fertility and water quality. As such, concrete and cohesive measures should be taken, such as the development and implementation of large-scale ecological restoration plans, including the renewal of degraded habitats, reforestation with native species and the reconnection of ecological corridors in order to support biodiversity. |
Maintaining a clean environment and healthy ecosystems, together with the promotion of sustainable agricultural and forestry practices, contributes to nature conservation and renewal.
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| (24) Activities should reflect the importance of tackling the dramatic loss of biodiversity and contribute to the preservation and restoration of nature, ecosystems and their services. The integration of environmental science in activities is necessary to avoid damage to the environment, to maintain clean environment and to restore heathy ecosystems. | (24) Activities under the Competitiveness component should reflect the importance of tackling the dramatic loss of biodiversity and contribute to the preservation and restoration of nature, ecosystems and their services, including biodiversity within agricultural landscapes, soil health and the impact on biodiversity of diets. The integration of environmental science in activities is necessary to avoid damage to the environment, to maintain clean environment, to restore heathy ecosystems and to integrate, whenever possible, nature-based solutions into the research and innovation activities. |
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| (24) Activities should reflect the importance of tackling the dramatic loss of biodiversity and contribute to the preservation and restoration of nature, ecosystems and their services. The integration of environmental science in activities is necessary to avoid damage to the environment, to maintain clean environment and to restore heathy ecosystems. | (24) Activities should reflect the importance of advancing Life and Earth system sciences and related disciplines in order to improve the understanding of physical, geological, atmospheric, climatic and environmental processes, on an evidence-based basis. The integration of Life and Earth science in research and innovation activities should be conducted in accordance with the highest scientific standards, including methodological rigour, transparency of datasets and models, reproducibility of results, peer review and explicit treatment of uncertainty. |
Elena Donazzan, Nicola Procaccini, Mariateresa Vivaldini, Carlo Ciccioli, Alessandro Ciriani, Pietro Fiocchi, Lara Magoni, Francesco Torselli
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| (24) Activities should reflect the importance of tackling the dramatic loss of biodiversity and contribute to the preservation and restoration of nature, ecosystems and their services. The integration of environmental science in activities is necessary to avoid damage to the environment, to maintain clean environment and to restore heathy ecosystems. | (24) Activities should reflect the importance of tackling the dramatic loss of biodiversity and contribute to the preservation and restoration of nature, ecosystems and their services. The integration of environmental science in activities, when it is technically possible and economically sustainable, is important to avoid damage to the environment, to maintain clean environment and to restore heathy ecosystems. |
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| (24) Activities should reflect the importance of tackling the dramatic loss of biodiversity and contribute to the preservation and restoration of nature, ecosystems and their services. The integration of environmental science in activities is necessary to avoid damage to the environment, to maintain clean environment and to restore heathy ecosystems. | (24) Activities should reflect the importance of tackling the dramatic loss of biodiversity and contribute to the preservation and restoration of nature, ecosystems and their services. The integration of environmental science in activities when it is technically possible and economically sustainable, is important to avoid damage to the environment, to maintain clean environment and to restore heathy ecosystems. |
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| (24) Activities should reflect the importance of tackling the dramatic loss of biodiversity and contribute to the preservation and restoration of nature, ecosystems and their services. The integration of environmental science in activities is necessary to avoid damage to the environment, to maintain clean environment and to restore heathy ecosystems. | (24) Activities should reflect the importance of tackling the dramatic loss of biodiversity and contribute to the preservation and restoration of nature, ecosystems and their services. The integration of environmental and climate sciences in activities and policy-making is necessary to avoid damage to the environment, to maintain clean environment and to restore heathy ecosystems. |
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| (24 a) The Programme acknowledges the human exposome – the totality of environmental, social and lifestyle exposures affecting human health throughout the life course – as a major scientific and societal challenge. A large share of chronic diseases is linked to environmental exposures that remain insufficiently measured, understood and prevented. Advancing research and innovation on the exposome can enable a shift from reactive healthcare towards prevention, strengthen evidence-based regulation, and stimulate innovation in areas such as safer chemicals, biotechnology, environmental monitoring, digital health and child health. Addressing these exposures would significantly contribute to reducing the burden of non-communicable diseases, improving citizens’ wellbeing and generating substantial economic and productivity gains. Given the scale of the challenge and the need for harmonised data and infrastructures, coordinated action at European level is necessary, including the development of large pan-European 10 million-citizens cohorts capable of measuring exposures across the life course. |
Chronic diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular and respiratory conditions account for the largest share of healthcare costs and productivity losses in Europe.Evidence suggests that up to 70–90 % of disease risk is linked to environmental, social and lifestyle exposures rather than genetics, yet these exposures remain insufficiently measured and integrated into public policy.Research on the human exposome – the comprehensive study of environmental exposures across the life course – offers a transformative opportunity to shift healthcare systems from treatment to prevention. Large-scale coordinated research infrastructures, including European citizen cohorts and advanced data systems, are required to identify environmental drivers of disease and support evidence-based policy making.Investments in comparable large-scale initiatives, such as genomic research programmes,have demonstrated very high economic returns. Strengthening EU leadership in exposome research would therefore deliver major benefits for public health,economic competitiveness, regulatory innovation and long-term sustainability. Adedicated Mission under Horizon Europe would provide the appropriate frameworkto mobilise interdisciplinary research, large-scale infrastructures and policyintegration to address this challenge.
Dario Nardella, Stefano Bonaccini, Giorgio Gori, Cristina Maestre, Camilla Laureti, Maria Grapini, Elena Sancho Murillo, Eric Sargiacomo, André Franqueira Rodrigues
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| (25) The Programme acknowledges climate change as one of the biggest global and societal challenge and climate action as a driver for industrial competitiveness. Activities should reflect the importance of tackling climate change in line with the Union’s commitments to implement the Paris Agreement. | (25) The Programme acknowledges climate change as one of the biggest global and societal challenge and climate action as a driver for industrial competitiveness. Activities should reflect the importance of tackling climate change in line with the Union’s commitments to implement the Paris Agreement. In this context, the Programme should also support climate adaptation and resilience, including the prevention and management of climate-related risks across all sectors, notably agriculture and food, which are among the most directly exposed. Particular attention should be given to sectors and territories highly exposed to environmental variability, by fostering risk prevention tools, resilience-building measures, climate-smart solutions and innovative approaches aimed at strengthening the capacity of economic actors to anticipate, withstand and recover from climate-related shocks. |
Effective climate action requires a comprehensive and balanced approach encompassing both mitigation and adaptation objectives. This amendment seeks to balance the text by ensuring that the Programme explicitly supports environmental resilience and sustainability across sectors, reinforcing the EU’s capacity to anticipate, withstand, and recover from climate and environmental shocks. The Programme should explicitly support targeted investment in prevention, preparedness and risk management.
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| (25) The Programme acknowledges climate change as one of the biggest global and societal challenge and climate action as a driver for industrial competitiveness. Activities should reflect the importance of tackling climate change in line with the Union’s commitments to implement the Paris Agreement. | (25) The Programme acknowledges climate change as one of the biggest global and societal challenge and climate action as a driver for industrial competitiveness. Activities should reflect the importance of tackling climate change in line with the Union’s commitments to implement the Paris Agreement. Systems for monitoring biodiversity and the effects of climate change on biodiversity, using modern technologies such as remote sensing and data analysis, need to be strengthened so as to enable accurate assessments and rapid interventions. Reducing pollution, including chemical pollution and plastic waste, should also be a priority, as should measures to prevent the introduction and spread of invasive species. |
Proper monitoring of the effects of climate change on biodiversity, and of chemical pollution and plastic waste, is essential in order to enable timely intervention and avoid long-term adverse effects.
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| (25) The Programme acknowledges climate change as one of the biggest global and societal challenge and climate action as a driver for industrial competitiveness. Activities should reflect the importance of tackling climate change in line with the Union’s commitments to implement the Paris Agreement. | (25) The Programme acknowledges climate change as one of the biggest global and societal challenges and climate action as a driver for systemic European competitiveness, understood as the long-term capacity to thrive within planetary boundaries, generate adaptive governance capabilities, mobilise private and public investment at scale, and build resilient economic and social systems. Activities should reflect the importance of tackling climate change in line with the Union's commitments to implement the Paris Agreement and should support cross-sectoral, mission-driven and systems innovation approaches that deliver structural transitions across value chains, institutions, and territories. |
Julie Rechagneux, Pascale Piera, Aleksandar Nikolic, Mélanie Disdier, Silvia Sardone, Isabella Tovaglieri, Raffaele Stancanelli, Barbara Bonte
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| (25) The Programme acknowledges climate change as one of the biggest global and societal challenge and climate action as a driver for industrial competitiveness. Activities should reflect the importance of tackling climate change in line with the Union’s commitments to implement the Paris Agreement. | (25) The Programme should support the monitoring, measurement and modelling of climatic phenomena, as well as research activities aimed at developing technological mitigation and adaptation solutions, including less resource-intensive and lower-impact alternatives in fuels, materials and industrial processes, based on scientific evidence and technological feasibility. With regard to agricultural science, it should also address environmental variability and resource constraints, while promoting risk prevention and resource-efficient practices that strengthen the long-term resilience and competitiveness of the European agricultural sector. |
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| (25) The Programme acknowledges climate change as one of the biggest global and societal challenge and climate action as a driver for industrial competitiveness. Activities should reflect the importance of tackling climate change in line with the Union’s commitments to implement the Paris Agreement. | (25) The Programme acknowledges climate change as one of the biggest global and societal challenge and climate action as a driver for industrial competitiveness. Activities should reflect the importance of tackling climate change in line with the Union’s commitments to implement the Paris Agreement. Therefore, the Framework Programme should respond to the needs of the European industry, including support for a wide range of solutions reducing carbon footprint, managing of natural sources or/and improving circularity. |
Elena Donazzan, Nicola Procaccini, Mariateresa Vivaldini, Carlo Ciccioli, Alessandro Ciriani, Pietro Fiocchi, Lara Magoni, Francesco Torselli, Carlo Fidanza
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| (25) The Programme acknowledges climate change as one of the biggest global and societal challenge and climate action as a driver for industrial competitiveness. Activities should reflect the importance of tackling climate change in line with the Union’s commitments to implement the Paris Agreement. | (25) The Programme should also support climate resilience, including the prevention and management of climate-related extreme weather events. Particular attention should be given to sectors and territories highly exposed to climate variability, by promoting risk prevention tools, resilience-building measures, climate- smart solutions and innovative approaches aimed at strengthening the capacity of economic actors to anticipate, withstand and recover from climate related shocks, including in agriculture and food. |
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| (25) The Programme acknowledges climate change as one of the biggest global and societal challenge and climate action as a driver for industrial competitiveness. Activities should reflect the importance of tackling climate change in line with the Union’s commitments to implement the Paris Agreement. | (25) The Programme acknowledges climate change as one of the greatest global and societal challenges and recognises climate action as a matter of ecological necessity, intergenerational justice, public health and social fairness, while supporting a just transition for workers and regions. Activities should reflect the importance of tackling climate change in line with the Union’s commitments to implement the Paris Agreement. |
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| (25) The Programme acknowledges climate change as one of the biggest global and societal challenge and climate action as a driver for industrial competitiveness. Activities should reflect the importance of tackling climate change in line with the Union’s commitments to implement the Paris Agreement. | (25) Climate change is one of the biggest global and societal challenge that creates an existential threat for humankind, and climate action is a driver and enabler for industrial competitiveness. Activities under the Competitiveness component should thus fully reflect the importance of tackling climate change in line with the Union’s commitments to implement the Paris Agreement. |
Lina Gálvez, Elena Sancho Murillo, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Christophe Clergeau, Giorgio Gori, Sofie Eriksson, Matthias Ecke, René Repasi
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| (25) The Programme acknowledges climate change as one of the biggest global and societal challenge and climate action as a driver for industrial competitiveness. Activities should reflect the importance of tackling climate change in line with the Union’s commitments to implement the Paris Agreement. | (25) The Programme acknowledges climate change as one of the biggest global and societal challenge and climate action as a driver for industrial competitiveness. Activities should reflect the importance of tackling climate change in line with the Union’s commitments to implement the Paris Agreement, alongside other societal challenges such as the loss of biodiversity. |
Christophe Clergeau, Lina Gálvez, Alicia Homs Ginel, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, André Franqueira Rodrigues, Isabella Lövin
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| (25 a) The ocean and seas are essential to climate regulation, biodiversity, food security, energy supply, transport, and the competitiveness of the Union’s maritime industries. Science, research and innovation are indispensable to improve ocean observation systems, develop a digital twin of the ocean, restore marine ecosystems, and accelerate the decarbonisation and modernisation of maritime sectors. | |
| The Union Mission “Restore our Ocean and Waters” should be confirmed and should integrate an ambitious research and innovation agenda to deliver the science and data needed to boost and diffuse innovation and to scale up new solutions. | |
| In order to address persistent underinvestment in marine research and innovation, and to ensure Europe’s strategic autonomy and competitiveness in ocean-related technologies, the research and innovation agenda should enable the mobilisation of adequate financial resources, not only under Pillar II but across all pillars supporting ocean-related activities within Horizon Europe, and should ensure coordination with the European Competitiveness Fund. |
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| (25a) It is vital for Member States and the European Union to mainstream biodiversity objectives into all relevant policies, including in the fields of energy, transport and urban development, in order to ensure cohesive action. Besides this, there is a need to encourage support for research and innovation in nature-based solutions, alongside involving local communities and raising public awareness of the importance of protecting the environment. Last but not least, appropriate funding mechanisms and economic incentives that encourage biodiversity conservation, as well as transparent evaluation and reporting systems, should be put in place to track progress and ensure accountability vis-à-vis meeting the targets set. |
The role and involvement of local communities and the raising of public awareness of the importance of protecting the environment is key to achieving the objectives set in this area.
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| (25 a) To maximise the benefits for Union citizens, the Programme shall pursue synergies with the Euratom Research and Training Programme and other Union programmes through joint and coordinated actions. Co-funding and cross-eligible calls between Horizon Europe and the Euratom Research and Training Programme shall enable appropriate financing for innovative nuclear fission research projects. In addition, researchers working in nuclear science and applications, including nuclear medicine, shall have effective access to Horizon Europe funding opportunities, notably through the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions and the European Research Council, in order to strengthen excellence, skills development and innovation across the Union. |
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| (25 a) Furthermore, given the cross-cutting and interconnected nature of global societal challenges, and the need to maximise impact and coherence of Union action, the Programme should address their full range while ensuring a reinforced focus on areas of particular strategic importance for the Union, notably societal resilience, climate and environmental sustainability, inclusive socio-economic transformations, and cultural heritage and creative sectors. |
Lina Gálvez, Elena Sancho Murillo, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Christophe Clergeau, Giorgio Gori, Matthias Ecke, René Repasi, Alicia Homs Ginel
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| (25 a) The programme acknowledges that access to housing is a societal challenge and that it should contribute to address it via research and innovation activities addressing the technological dimension of the built environment, including sustainable materials, energy-efficient solutions and circular construction approaches. |
Julie Rechagneux, Pascale Piera, Aleksandar Nikolic, Mélanie Disdier, Silvia Sardone, Isabella Tovaglieri, Raffaele Stancanelli
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| (26) Simplification in the Programme’s implementation is essential to ensure its accessibility and efficiency, particularly by reducing the administrative burden on beneficiaries and minimising the risk of errors. To this end, the Programme should primarily rely on lump sums as the default form of Union funding. Advancing efforts over the previous Framework Programmes to streamline funding rules and minimise errors, the reimbursement of personnel costs should also be further simplified by using personnel unit costs, which reduces complexity for participants and facilitates reporting. | (26) Substantial simplification across the entire lifecycle of the Programme’s implementation is essential to improve the experience of applicants, reduce transaction costs, and ensure its accessibility, efficiency and attractiveness, while minimising the risk of errors. Simplification should rely on a performance framework based not only on output indicators but also on measurable results and long-term impacts supported by reliable beneficiary-level data, and on codified interim and ex-post evaluation obligations to strengthen accountability and evidence-based policy-making. Persistent error rates in research spending, notably in personnel cost declarations, should be addressed through clearer eligibility rules for beneficiaries, transparent termination procedures, strengthened compliance controls, appropriate use of different funding forms, safeguards in lump-sum schemes and full traceability of funds to ensure transparency, accountability and sound financial management. The Court’s audit mandate should cover all forms of Union research funding, including programmes implemented with the European Investment Bank Group or through third-party beneficiaries, supported by improved data availability, consistent reporting standards and contractual provisions guaranteeing effective audit access and oversight. |
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| (26) Simplification in the Programme’s implementation is essential to ensure its accessibility and efficiency, particularly by reducing the administrative burden on beneficiaries and minimising the risk of errors. To this end, the Programme should primarily rely on lump sums as the default form of Union funding. Advancing efforts over the previous Framework Programmes to streamline funding rules and minimise errors, the reimbursement of personnel costs should also be further simplified by using personnel unit costs, which reduces complexity for participants and facilitates reporting. | (26) Simplification in the Programme’s implementation is essential to ensure its accessibility and efficiency, particularly by reducing the administrative burden on beneficiaries and minimising the risk of errors. To this end, the Programme should primarily rely on lump sums as the default form of Union funding. Advancing efforts over the previous Framework Programmes to streamline funding rules and minimise errors, the reimbursement of personnel costs should also be further simplified by using personnel unit costs, which reduces complexity for participants and facilitates reporting. Excessive administrative complexity disproportionately excludes actors and regions that have less resources, and therefore, simplification is a key prerequisite for equitable access to the Programme in order to render a wider pool of actors across the Union to become more competitive in R&I. In this regard, simplification measures should be designed in a way to benefit first-time applicants, SMEs and regional universities. The Programme should also promote smaller and more flexible consortia, modular project structures and staged participation in order to facilitate broader participation and effective inclusion across all territories of the Union. |
Modular project structures and staged participation would allow Horizon projects to be broken into manageable components and enable a wider variety of partners to join the research at different phases of the project’s lifecycle. These options would reduce administrative and financial burdens on smaller R&I actors and would allow less-resourced regions, SMEs and regional universities to contribute meaningfully at different research stages as per their capacities, particularly in testing, deployment and scale-up. This kind of enabling in Horizon project would better support wider territorial participation and impact.
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| (26) Simplification in the Programme’s implementation is essential to ensure its accessibility and efficiency, particularly by reducing the administrative burden on beneficiaries and minimising the risk of errors. To this end, the Programme should primarily rely on lump sums as the default form of Union funding. Advancing efforts over the previous Framework Programmes to streamline funding rules and minimise errors, the reimbursement of personnel costs should also be further simplified by using personnel unit costs, which reduces complexity for participants and facilitates reporting. | (26) Simplification in the Programme’s implementation is essential to ensure its accessibility and efficiency, particularly by reducing the administrative burden on beneficiaries and minimising the risk of errors. To this end, the Programme should make use of lump sums where relevant. It should to the extent possible make use of two stage submission procedure in order to reduce administrative and resource burden on applicants. Advancing efforts over the previous Framework Programmes to streamline funding rules and minimise errors, the reimbursement of personnel costs should also be further simplified by proposing the option of personnel unit costs, when it helps to reduce the complexity for participants and facilitates reporting. However, in cases where it provides a more accurate reflection of actual expenses or is more appropriate due to the nature of the work, the use of actual costs should remain an option. Efforts should be made to reduce the reporting requirements for beneficiaries. |
Elena Donazzan, Nicola Procaccini, Mariateresa Vivaldini, Carlo Ciccioli, Alessandro Ciriani, Pietro Fiocchi, Lara Magoni, Francesco Torselli, Carlo Fidanza
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| (26) Simplification in the Programme’s implementation is essential to ensure its accessibility and efficiency, particularly by reducing the administrative burden on beneficiaries and minimising the risk of errors. To this end, the Programme should primarily rely on lump sums as the default form of Union funding. Advancing efforts over the previous Framework Programmes to streamline funding rules and minimise errors, the reimbursement of personnel costs should also be further simplified by using personnel unit costs, which reduces complexity for participants and facilitates reporting. | (26) Simplification in the Programme’s implementation is essential to ensure its accessibility and efficiency, particularly by reducing the administrative burden on beneficiaries and minimising the risk of errors. To this end, the Programme should provide a broad and flexible range of funding modalities, which may include lump sums and personnel unit costs, allowing beneficiaries to select those that best align with their internal management practices. This approach is consistent with Article 10, which affirms beneficiaries’ autonomy to choose the cost-accounting and reimbursement methods that are most appropriate to their circumstances. In general, the shift toward a faster, trust-based funding model that cuts administrative burden, especially for SMEs, shortens time-to-grant, foresees simple accounting rules with proportionate controls should also be pursued to improve accessibility and speed without compromising accountability. |
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| (26) Simplification in the Programme’s implementation is essential to ensure its accessibility and efficiency, particularly by reducing the administrative burden on beneficiaries and minimising the risk of errors. To this end, the Programme should primarily rely on lump sums as the default form of Union funding. Advancing efforts over the previous Framework Programmes to streamline funding rules and minimise errors, the reimbursement of personnel costs should also be further simplified by using personnel unit costs, which reduces complexity for participants and facilitates reporting. | (26) Simplification in the Programme’s implementation is essential to ensure its accessibility and efficiency, particularly by reducing the administrative burden on beneficiaries, including reporting requirements, and minimising the risk of errors. To this end, the Programme should primarily rely on lump sums where relevant. Where the specific characteristics or objectives of an action justify it, funding based on the reimbursement of actual eligible costs should remain possible Advancing efforts over the previous Framework Programmes to streamline funding rules and minimise errors, the reimbursement of personnel costs should also be further simplified by using personnel unit costs, which reduces complexity for participants and facilitates reporting. The attractiveness of the option of personnel unit costs should be increased by securing a fair cost coverage. |
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| (26) Simplification in the Programme’s implementation is essential to ensure its accessibility and efficiency, particularly by reducing the administrative burden on beneficiaries and minimising the risk of errors. To this end, the Programme should primarily rely on lump sums as the default form of Union funding. Advancing efforts over the previous Framework Programmes to streamline funding rules and minimise errors, the reimbursement of personnel costs should also be further simplified by using personnel unit costs, which reduces complexity for participants and facilitates reporting. | (26) Simplification in the Programme’s implementation is essential to ensure its accessibility and efficiency, particularly by reducing the administrative burden on beneficiaries related to the application process and management of projects, to ensure the Programme remains open, including for smaller actors and newcomers. To this end, the Programme should allow flexibility in the form of Union’s funding, including lump sums, based on the nature of the action and the beneficiary. Advancing efforts over the previous Framework Programmes to streamline funding rules and minimise errors, the reimbursement of personnel costs should also be further simplified by allowing on a voluntary basis the use of personnel unit costs, which reduces complexity for participants and facilitates reporting, while allowing the continued use of actual costs where appropriate. |
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| (26) Simplification in the Programme’s implementation is essential to ensure its accessibility and efficiency, particularly by reducing the administrative burden on beneficiaries and minimising the risk of errors. To this end, the Programme should primarily rely on lump sums as the default form of Union funding. Advancing efforts over the previous Framework Programmes to streamline funding rules and minimise errors, the reimbursement of personnel costs should also be further simplified by using personnel unit costs, which reduces complexity for participants and facilitates reporting. | (26) Simplification in the Programme’s implementation is essential to ensure its accessibility and efficiency, particularly by reducing the administrative burden on beneficiaries and minimising the risk of errors. To this end, the Programme should give the opportunity to implement projects on lump sums as one form of Union funding. Advancing efforts over the previous Framework Programmes to streamline funding rules and minimise errors, the reimbursement of personnel costs should also be further simplified by using personnel unit costs, as an option to choose for beneficiaries, which reduces complexity for participants and facilitates reporting. Furthermore, simplification and legal certainty should be guaranteed through the same set of rules and funding conditions when Member States are co-financing Horizon Europe projects. |
Forms of lump sum funding or the possibility use of the personnel unit cost option should be made available wherever it makes sense to use these methods, but not by default. If funding is granted under an EU programme and therefore falls outside the scope of state aid rules, the national co-financing should equally be treated as non-state aid to ensure consistent legal treatment. Otherwise, a dual system arises that creates legal uncertainty and increases administrative burden.
Ivars Ijabs, Elisabetta Gualmini, Christophe Grudler, Sophie Wilmès, Morten Løkkegaard, Martin Hojsík
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| (26) Simplification in the Programme’s implementation is essential to ensure its accessibility and efficiency, particularly by reducing the administrative burden on beneficiaries and minimising the risk of errors. To this end, the Programme should primarily rely on lump sums as the default form of Union funding. Advancing efforts over the previous Framework Programmes to streamline funding rules and minimise errors, the reimbursement of personnel costs should also be further simplified by using personnel unit costs, which reduces complexity for participants and facilitates reporting. | (26) Simplification in the Programme’s implementation is essential to ensure its accessibility and efficiency, particularly by reducing the administrative burden on beneficiaries and minimising the risk of errors. To this end, the Programme should primarily rely on lump sums as the default form of Union funding, nevertheless allowing for actual eligible cost reimbursement where necessary. Advancing efforts over the previous Framework Programmes to streamline funding rules and minimise errors, the reimbursement of personnel costs should also be further simplified by using personnel unit costs, which reduces complexity for participants and facilitates reporting. Simplification measures should also ensure that calls are less prescriptive, allowing for the development of the most promising and innovative ideas. |
Dario Nardella, Stefano Bonaccini, Cristina Maestre, Camilla Laureti, Maria Grapini, Elena Sancho Murillo, Eric Sargiacomo, André Franqueira Rodrigues, Giorgio Gori
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| (26) Simplification in the Programme’s implementation is essential to ensure its accessibility and efficiency, particularly by reducing the administrative burden on beneficiaries and minimising the risk of errors. To this end, the Programme should primarily rely on lump sums as the default form of Union funding. Advancing efforts over the previous Framework Programmes to streamline funding rules and minimise errors, the reimbursement of personnel costs should also be further simplified by using personnel unit costs, which reduces complexity for participants and facilitates reporting. | (26) Simplification in the Programme’s implementation is essential to ensure its accessibility and efficiency, particularly by reducing the administrative burden on beneficiaries and minimising the risk of errors. To this end, the Programme should primarily rely on lump sums as the default form of Union funding, while ensuring sufficient flexibility to apply, where appropriate, other simplified forms of funding in order to take into account the specific characteristics, size and administrative capacity of beneficiaries. Advancing efforts over the previous Framework Programmes to streamline funding rules and minimise errors, the reimbursement of personnel costs should also be further simplified by using personnel unit costs, which reduces complexity for participants and facilitates reporting. |
A rigid approach to funding forms would risk undermining the effectiveness and inclusiveness of the Programme by failing to account for the inherent diversity of beneficiaries, project types and operational realities across sectors. Preserving sufficient flexibility in the choice of funding instruments is therefore essential to ensure that support can be tailored to the specific needs and circumstances of all eligible participants,
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| (26) Simplification in the Programme’s implementation is essential to ensure its accessibility and efficiency, particularly by reducing the administrative burden on beneficiaries and minimising the risk of errors. To this end, the Programme should primarily rely on lump sums as the default form of Union funding. Advancing efforts over the previous Framework Programmes to streamline funding rules and minimise errors, the reimbursement of personnel costs should also be further simplified by using personnel unit costs, which reduces complexity for participants and facilitates reporting. | (26) Simplification in the Programme’s implementation is essential to ensure its accessibility and efficiency, particularly by reducing the administrative burden on beneficiaries and minimising the risk of errors. To this end, the Programme should primarily rely on lump sums as one form of Union funding. Advancing efforts over the previous Framework Programmes to streamline funding rules and minimise errors, the reimbursement of personnel costs should also be further simplified by using personnel unit costs, which reduces complexity for participants and facilitates reporting. The same set of rules and funding conditions shall apply in order to ensure simplification and legal certainty where Member States co-finance projects under Horizon Europe. |
To ensure consistent legal treatment and avoid legal uncertainty and additional administrative burden, national co-financing should likewise be considered non-state aid where EU funding falls outside the scope of state aid rules.
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| (26) Simplification in the Programme’s implementation is essential to ensure its accessibility and efficiency, particularly by reducing the administrative burden on beneficiaries and minimising the risk of errors. To this end, the Programme should primarily rely on lump sums as the default form of Union funding. Advancing efforts over the previous Framework Programmes to streamline funding rules and minimise errors, the reimbursement of personnel costs should also be further simplified by using personnel unit costs, which reduces complexity for participants and facilitates reporting. | (26) Simplification in the Programme’s implementation is essential to ensure its accessibility and efficiency, particularly by reducing the administrative burden on beneficiaries and minimising the risk of errors. To this end, the Programme should use of on lump sums where relevant. Advancing efforts over the previous Framework Programmes to streamline funding rules and minimise errors, the reimbursement of personnel costs should also be further simplified by proposing the option of personnel unit costs, when it helps to reduce the complexity for participants and facilitates reporting. Efforts should be made to reduce the reporting requirements for beneficiaries. |
Simplification must take place from the viewpoint of beneficiaries. Reducing reporting requirements is good but simplification efforts should also target the application phase, which is time-consuming and is done at the applicant’s own expense. Lump sums and PUC are not considered as a primary means of simplification. Lump sums can be a good model for single beneficiaries but are more problematic for consortia. As concerns PUC, better simplification for beneficiaries would be to allow their normal cost calculation/reporting methodology.
Wouter Beke, Willemien Koning, Seán Kelly, Eszter Lakos, Jüri Ratas, Davor Ivo Stier, Angelika Niebler, Andrea Wechsler
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| (26) Simplification in the Programme’s implementation is essential to ensure its accessibility and efficiency, particularly by reducing the administrative burden on beneficiaries and minimising the risk of errors. To this end, the Programme should primarily rely on lump sums as the default form of Union funding. Advancing efforts over the previous Framework Programmes to streamline funding rules and minimise errors, the reimbursement of personnel costs should also be further simplified by using personnel unit costs, which reduces complexity for participants and facilitates reporting. | (26) Simplification in the Programme’s implementation is essential to ensure its accessibility and efficiency, particularly by reducing the administrative burden on beneficiaries and minimising the risk of errors. To this end, the Programme should primarily rely on two-stage processes, blind evaluation and lump sums as the default form of Union funding. Advancing efforts over the previous Framework Programmes to streamline funding rules and minimise errors, the reimbursement of personnel costs should also be further simplified by using personnel unit costs, which reduces complexity for participants and facilitates reporting. |
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| (26) Simplification in the Programme’s implementation is essential to ensure its accessibility and efficiency, particularly by reducing the administrative burden on beneficiaries and minimising the risk of errors. To this end, the Programme should primarily rely on lump sums as the default form of Union funding. Advancing efforts over the previous Framework Programmes to streamline funding rules and minimise errors, the reimbursement of personnel costs should also be further simplified by using personnel unit costs, which reduces complexity for participants and facilitates reporting. | (26) Simplification in the Programme’s implementation is essential to ensure its accessibility and efficiency, particularly by reducing the administrative burden on beneficiaries and minimising the risk of errors. To this end, the Programme should allow flexibility in the form of Union funding depending on the nature and objectives of the action. Advancing efforts over the previous Framework Programmes, the calls must be less prescriptive in order to foster the development of the most promising and innovative ideas. |
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| (26) Simplification in the Programme’s implementation is essential to ensure its accessibility and efficiency, particularly by reducing the administrative burden on beneficiaries and minimising the risk of errors. To this end, the Programme should primarily rely on lump sums as the default form of Union funding. Advancing efforts over the previous Framework Programmes to streamline funding rules and minimise errors, the reimbursement of personnel costs should also be further simplified by using personnel unit costs, which reduces complexity for participants and facilitates reporting. | (26) Simplification in the Programme’s implementation is essential to ensure its accessibility and efficiency, particularly by reducing the administrative burden on beneficiaries and minimising the risk of errors. To this end, the programme should provide a broad and flexible range of funding modalities, which may include lump sums and personnel unit costs, allowing beneficiaries to select those that best align with their internal management practices, in order to respect beneficiaries’ autonomy to choose the cost-accounting and reimbursement methods that are most appropriate to their circumstances. |
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| (26) Simplification in the Programme’s implementation is essential to ensure its accessibility and efficiency, particularly by reducing the administrative burden on beneficiaries and minimising the risk of errors. To this end, the Programme should primarily rely on lump sums as the default form of Union funding. Advancing efforts over the previous Framework Programmes to streamline funding rules and minimise errors, the reimbursement of personnel costs should also be further simplified by using personnel unit costs, which reduces complexity for participants and facilitates reporting. | (26) Simplification in the Programme’s implementation is essential to ensure its accessibility and efficiency, particularly by reducing the administrative burden on beneficiaries and minimising the risk of errors. To this end, the Programme could make use of lump sums where relevant. Advancing efforts over the previous Framework Programmes to streamline funding rules and minimise errors, the reimbursement of personnel costs should also be further simplified by enabling the option of personnel unit costs, when it can help reduce the complexity for participants and facilitates reporting. |
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| (26) Simplification in the Programme’s implementation is essential to ensure its accessibility and efficiency, particularly by reducing the administrative burden on beneficiaries and minimising the risk of errors. To this end, the Programme should primarily rely on lump sums as the default form of Union funding. Advancing efforts over the previous Framework Programmes to streamline funding rules and minimise errors, the reimbursement of personnel costs should also be further simplified by using personnel unit costs, which reduces complexity for participants and facilitates reporting. | (26) Simplification in the Programme’s implementation is essential to ensure its accessibility and efficiency, particularly by reducing the administrative burden on beneficiaries and minimising the risk of errors. To this end, the Programme should further rely on lump sums as the form of Union funding. Advancing efforts over the previous Framework Programmes to streamline funding rules and minimise errors, the reimbursement of personnel costs should also be further simplified by using personnel unit costs, which reduces complexity for participants and facilitates reporting. |
Julie Rechagneux, Pascale Piera, Aleksandar Nikolic, Mélanie Disdier, Jorge Martín Frías, András Gyürk
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| (26 a) Reducing administrative burden, heavy reporting obligations and procedural complexity is necessary to improve the experience of applicants and beneficiaries. Streamlined governance in direct and indirect management, including harmonised rules for joint undertakings under Article 187 TFEU, clearer partnership frameworks and well-designed programme committee structures, is necessary to avoid fragmentation between Horizon Europe and related competitiveness instruments and to strengthen policy coherence and administrative efficiency. Simplified procurement, including expanded use of pre-commercial procurement, should be supported by detailed guidance from the European Commission on intellectual property rights, conflict-of-interest prevention, risk management and the place of performance, while ensuring full respect of transparency, non-discrimination and equal-treatment principles. |
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| (26 a) To safeguard the integrity of the simplified application process and ensure the high quality of selected actions, the Commission should monitor tendencies regarding the use of generative artificial intelligence in the preparation of proposals. This monitoring should ensure the detection of systemic patterns of AI-generated content that may undermine the principle of original authorship or the rigor of the evaluation process. |
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| (26 a) In order to lower the administrative pressure both for applicants and EU institutions, as well as reduce financial risk for applicants, the evaluation shall be conducted in two-stage procedure, with the first stage comprising of a shorter concept application, and a second stage with a complete application for the short-listed entities. |
Julie Rechagneux, Pascale Piera, Aleksandar Nikolic, Mélanie Disdier, András Gyürk, Silvia Sardone, Isabella Tovaglieri, Raffaele Stancanelli
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| (26 b) Surveys indicate that administrative expenses can account for a significant share of project budgets and in some cases exceed one fifth of total costs, thereby diverting resources away from research and innovation activities; such burdens weaken cost-effectiveness, discourage participation and disproportionately affect SMEs, newcomers and high-risk innovators, reflecting broader structural barriers such as complex procedures, large-consortium bias and scarce seed funding; stakeholders therefore call for radical simplification and genuine user orientation of the Framework Programme, including reduced transaction costs, less prescriptive calls, streamlined reporting, faster time-to-grant, modernised evaluation practices, clearer use of funding models and the elimination of redundant instruments, emphasising that simplification should constitute an operational redesign of programme delivery. Shorter time-to-grant periods are necessary to increase predictability, accelerate project start-up and enhance the attractiveness of Union funding. Faster procedures should be accompanied by robust evaluation standards and sufficient administrative capacity to preserve quality and fairness in project selection. |
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| (26 b) Proposals should continue to be selected based on the evaluation made by independent external experts. The evaluation process should be designed to avoid conflicts of interest and bias. Aiming to simplify the application process for beneficiaries, a two-stage submission procedure should be considered, including where a large number of proposals is expected, based on available data. Where appropriate and justified by robust data, anonymised proposals should be evaluated during the first stage of evaluation. The Commission should continue to involve independent observers in the evaluation process, where applicable |
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| (26 b) As in the efforts to simplify Horizon Europe, certain rules might be modified and limited, which could have an unintended effect of creating legal uncertainty for applicants. In the cases where such uncertainty exists, any disputes or doubts arising from audits should be resolved in favor of the applicants. |
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| (26 c) Lump sum funding may reduce administrative burden and focus on results, but it shall be cautiously evaluated before being adopted as the default model, as it may be less suited to long-term, high-risk research and large-scale collaborative projects. Experience with lump sum pilots indicates financial risks in multi-entity projects. Furthermore, it entails a shift of administrative workload to the proposal stage, introduces payment conditions linked to entire work packages that may complicate implementation and lead to artificial duplication of work packages, and creates potential risks of overcompensation if safeguards are insufficient. The Programme shall apply a differentiated and purpose-driven approach to Union funding modalities, including simplified cost options and financing not linked to costs, using lump sums and other Simplified Cost Options where appropriate and on a voluntary opt-in basis for beneficiaries, without imposing them by default on large or complex collaborative projects. Such mechanisms may reduce administrative burden but are not suitable in all cases, particularly for low-TRL projects, and therefore require clearer eligibility criteria, pilot testing of lump sums, safeguards against overcompensation and more precise definitions of work packages to ensure sound financial management and proportionality. Research and innovation spending is a high-risk area with persistent error rates. Therefore, any use of lump sums should ensure sound financial management, compliance, transparency, accountability and traceability, and their effectiveness depends on careful design and implementation of the funding scheme. Cost-based reimbursement shall remain available where necessary to guarantee sound financial management, transparency and broad participation across all action types. Advancing efforts over the previous Framework Programmes to streamline funding rules and minimise errors, the reimbursement of personnel costs should also be further simplified by using personnel unit costs, which reduces complexity for participants and facilitates reporting. |
Julie Rechagneux, Pascale Piera, Aleksandar Nikolic, Mélanie Disdier, Jorge Martín Frías, András Gyürk
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| (26 d) The Programme should foster the use of artificial intelligence tools to support faster funding processes, improved challenge identification, enhanced proposal review assistance and more effective portfolio management, while ensuring that AI-enabled instruments contribute to simplification, speed and strategic intelligence without undermining peer review integrity, accountability or scientific autonomy. Particular attention should be paid to the detection of AI-generated or manipulated applications in order to prevent fraudulent submissions and preserve the integrity and fairness of the evaluation process. |
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| (26 e) Lump sums shall be used with caution and offered to participants on an optional basis, in duly justified cases where this form of funding is appropriate, and at the request of the applicants, who shall retain the possibility to opt for funding based on eligible costs. |
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| (27) To accommodate specific organisational set-up, especially encountered in the Research and Innovation activities, it should be possible to declare as eligible costs in-kind contributions from third parties. To incentivise valorisation of results, it should be clarified that this should not be counted as revenues of the action. | (27) To accommodate specific organisational set-up, especially encountered in the Research and Innovation activities, it should be possible to declare as eligible costs in-kind contributions from third parties, including personnel time, equipment use and own funding, as such inputs often constitute the core mechanism through which industry provides expertise, engineering capacity, test environments and networks enabling translation and scaling. To incentivise valorisation of results, it should be clarified that this should not be counted as revenues of the action. Leveraging private sector contribution requires a reduction of administrative requirements linked to the accounting of cash and in-kind contributions, in order to support predictable co-investment frameworks and allow partnerships and missions to focus on implementation, synergy-building and the acceleration of results. |
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| (27 a) The Programme shall also integrate the principles of a circular economy and material efficiency as cross-cutting dimensions. Reducing absolute material use, shortening material cycles, advancing substitution and reuse of materials, and developing circular business models are simultaneously environmental imperatives and essential strategies for European strategic autonomy, competitiveness and supply chain resilience. These dimensions shall be considered in the design of Work Programmes across all Parts of the Programme |
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| (28) In view of strengthening the Union's competitiveness and maximising the uptake and deployment of the results in general, beneficiaries owning results should manage their results in accordance with their obligations established under this Regulation regarding valorisation and dissemination. Those obligations may be adjusted in the work programme, call conditions or grant agreement where appropriate based on policy considerations, including related to economic security, but should encompass requirements to protect, give access, valorise results and make them public as appropriate and justified, including through open science practices. To facilitate and accelerate the valorisation process, support instruments and tools should be put in place in line with the Commission’s valorisation strategy as developed under the European Competitiveness Fund and any such support and services provided for in its Chapter III. | (28) In view of strengthening the Union's competitiveness and maximising the uptake and deployment of the results in general, beneficiaries owning results should manage their results in accordance with their obligations established under this Regulation regarding valorisation and dissemination. Those obligations may be adjusted in the work programme, call conditions or grant agreement where appropriate based on policy considerations, including related to economic security, but should encompass requirements to protect, give access, valorise results and make them public as appropriate and justified, including through open science practices. To facilitate and accelerate the valorisation process, support instruments and tools should be put in place in line with the Commission’s valorisation strategy as developed under the European Competitiveness Fund and any such support and services provided for in its Chapter III. However, in several Member States academic incentive systems still primarily reward scientific publications, while providing insufficient incentives for patenting, licensing, spin-offs and structured cooperation with industry, which limits technology transfer and the uptake of research results. The Programme should therefore encourage reforms and support mechanisms that strengthen university-business collaboration and the valorisation capacity of higher education institutions across all regions. |
Europe invests heavily in excellent research, yet the economic return on this investment remains uneven due to weak incentives for commercialisation and technology transfer in several Member States. Aligning academic evaluation systems with innovation and valorisation objectives is essential to bridge the gap between knowledge creation and market impact, strengthen university–industry cooperation, and ensure that public research funding translates into competitiveness, jobs and strategic autonomy across all regions.
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| (28) In view of strengthening the Union's competitiveness and maximising the uptake and deployment of the results in general, beneficiaries owning results should manage their results in accordance with their obligations established under this Regulation regarding valorisation and dissemination. Those obligations may be adjusted in the work programme, call conditions or grant agreement where appropriate based on policy considerations, including related to economic security, but should encompass requirements to protect, give access, valorise results and make them public as appropriate and justified, including through open science practices. To facilitate and accelerate the valorisation process, support instruments and tools should be put in place in line with the Commission’s valorisation strategy as developed under the European Competitiveness Fund and any such support and services provided for in its Chapter III. | (28) In view of strengthening the Union's competitiveness and maximising the uptake and deployment of the results in general, beneficiaries owning results should manage their results in accordance with their obligations established under this Regulation regarding valorisation and dissemination. Those obligations may be adjusted in the work programme, or grant agreement where appropriate based on policy considerations, including Union strategic interests such as security, research security, economic security, technological sovereignty and resilience, but should encompass requirements to protect, give access, valorise results and make them public as appropriate and justified, including through open science practices. To facilitate and accelerate the valorisation process, support instruments and tools should be put in place in line with the Commission’s valorisation strategy as developed under the European Competitiveness Fund and any such support and services provided for in its Chapter III |
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| (28) In view of strengthening the Union's competitiveness and maximising the uptake and deployment of the results in general, beneficiaries owning results should manage their results in accordance with their obligations established under this Regulation regarding valorisation and dissemination. Those obligations may be adjusted in the work programme, call conditions or grant agreement where appropriate based on policy considerations, including related to economic security, but should encompass requirements to protect, give access, valorise results and make them public as appropriate and justified, including through open science practices. To facilitate and accelerate the valorisation process, support instruments and tools should be put in place in line with the Commission’s valorisation strategy as developed under the European Competitiveness Fund and any such support and services provided for in its Chapter III. | (28) In view of strengthening the Union's competitiveness and maximising the uptake and deployment of the results in general, beneficiaries owning results should manage their results in accordance with their obligations established under this Regulation regarding valorisation and dissemination. Those obligations may be adjusted in the work programme, call conditions or grant agreement where appropriate based on policy considerations, including Union strategic interests such as security, research security, economic security, but should encompass requirements to protect, give access, valorise results and make them public as appropriate and justified, including through open science practices. To facilitate and accelerate the valorisation process, support instruments and tools should be put in place in line with the Commission’s valorisation strategy as developed under the European Competitiveness Fund and any such support and services provided for in its Chapter III. |
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| (28) In view of strengthening the Union's competitiveness and maximising the uptake and deployment of the results in general, beneficiaries owning results should manage their results in accordance with their obligations established under this Regulation regarding valorisation and dissemination. Those obligations may be adjusted in the work programme, call conditions or grant agreement where appropriate based on policy considerations, including related to economic security, but should encompass requirements to protect, give access, valorise results and make them public as appropriate and justified, including through open science practices. To facilitate and accelerate the valorisation process, support instruments and tools should be put in place in line with the Commission’s valorisation strategy as developed under the European Competitiveness Fund and any such support and services provided for in its Chapter III. | (28) In view of strengthening the Union's competitiveness and maximising the uptake and deployment of the results in general, beneficiaries owning results should manage their results in accordance with their obligations established under this Regulation regarding valorisation and dissemination. Those obligations may be adjusted in the work programme, call conditions or grant agreement where appropriate based on policy considerations, including related to economic security, but should encompass requirements to protect, give access, valorise results and make them public as appropriate and justified, including through open science practices. To facilitate and accelerate the valorisation process, beyond the appointment of Programme Managers, support instruments and tools should be put in place in line with the Commission’s valorisation strategy as developed under the European Competitiveness Fund and any such support and services provided for in its Chapter III. |
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| (28) In view of strengthening the Union's competitiveness and maximising the uptake and deployment of the results in general, beneficiaries owning results should manage their results in accordance with their obligations established under this Regulation regarding valorisation and dissemination. Those obligations may be adjusted in the work programme, call conditions or grant agreement where appropriate based on policy considerations, including related to economic security, but should encompass requirements to protect, give access, valorise results and make them public as appropriate and justified, including through open science practices. To facilitate and accelerate the valorisation process, support instruments and tools should be put in place in line with the Commission’s valorisation strategy as developed under the European Competitiveness Fund and any such support and services provided for in its Chapter III. | (28) In view of strengthening the Union's competitiveness and maximising the uptake and deployment of the results in general, beneficiaries owning results should manage their results in accordance with their obligations established under this Regulation regarding valorisation and dissemination. Those obligations may be adjusted in the work programme, call conditions or grant agreement where appropriate based on policy considerations, including related to economic security, but should encompass requirements to protect, give access, valorise results and make them public as appropriate and justified, including through open science practices. To facilitate and accelerate the valorisation process, support instruments and tools should be put in place by the Commission and any such support and services provided for in Chapter III of the European Competitiveness Fund should be accessible for beneficiaries of this Programme. |
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| (28) In view of strengthening the Union's competitiveness and maximising the uptake and deployment of the results in general, beneficiaries owning results should manage their results in accordance with their obligations established under this Regulation regarding valorisation and dissemination. Those obligations may be adjusted in the work programme, call conditions or grant agreement where appropriate based on policy considerations, including related to economic security, but should encompass requirements to protect, give access, valorise results and make them public as appropriate and justified, including through open science practices. To facilitate and accelerate the valorisation process, support instruments and tools should be put in place in line with the Commission’s valorisation strategy as developed under the European Competitiveness Fund and any such support and services provided for in its Chapter III. | (28) In view of maximising the societal, scientific and public value of the results, beneficiaries owning results should manage them in a way that promotes accessibility, affordability, knowledge sharing, open science and broad public benefit, while ensuring that publicly funded research yields a fair return for society. Those obligations may be adjusted in the work programme, call conditions or grant agreement where appropriate based on policy considerations, including related to economic security, but should encompass requirements to protect, give access, valorise results and make them public as appropriate and justified, including through open science practices. To facilitate and accelerate the valorisation process, support instruments and tools should be put in place in line with the Commission’s valorisation strategy and any such support and services provided for in its Chapter III. |
Ivars Ijabs, Elisabetta Gualmini, Anna Stürgkh, Christophe Grudler, Sophie Wilmès, Barry Andrews, Morten Løkkegaard, Michał Kobosko, Bart Groothuis, Martin Hojsík
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| (28 a) (new) Results generated through Union public funding under the Programme represent a strategic asset of the Union and its Member States. The transfer of such results — including data, know-how and intellectual property — to entities established in, controlled by, or acting on behalf of third countries that do not share the Union's fundamental values, that pose systemic risks to the Union's strategic interests, or that are subject to Union sanctions or restrictive measures, is incompatible with the objectives of the Programme and with the Union's obligations under international human rights law. Beneficiaries should therefore be subject to clear and enforceable obligations to prevent such transfers, without prejudice to the open science principles and international collaboration that are central to the Programme's character. The Commission should maintain a regularly updated list of third countries to which transfer restrictions apply, ensuring transparency and legal certainty for beneficiaries, and reflecting the Union's evolving assessment of third-country conduct with respect to democratic values and human rights. |
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| (28 a) The absence of safeguards preventing founders from increasing the value of personal investments through the sale of patents or shares to non-EU partners, even where research and innovation has been extensively financed by Union funds, should be addressed. While such divestments may be difficult to prevent, mechanisms could be envisaged to recover part of the public financing that has generated capital gains, in order to ensure a fair return on public investment and preserve the Union’s economic interests. |
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| (29) Support measures are needed to strengthen and better connect innovation ecosystems. Such measures should support organisations and innovators to create competitive, robust and connected innovation ecosystems and improve framework conditions through cooperation and knowledge exchange. They should help connect national, regional, and local ecosystems by removing barriers in the single market such as market fragmentation, limited capital access and segmented national capital markets, slow innovation uptake and the underutilisation of innovation procurement. | (29) Support measures are needed to strengthen and better connect innovation ecosystems. Such measures should support organisations and innovators to create competitive, robust and connected innovation ecosystems and improve framework conditions through cooperation and knowledge exchange. Particular attention should be paid to emerging regional innovation ecosystems, by enabling smaller actors, first-time applicants, regional universities, SMEs and local innovators to effectively participate in and benefit from the Union’s research and innovation activities. They should help connect national, regional, and local ecosystems in a place-based manner, by removing barriers in the single market such as market fragmentation, limited capital access and segmented national capital markets, slow innovation uptake and the underutilisation of innovation procurement, while strengthening the capacity of regional ecosystems to absorb, deploy and scale up research and innovation results, including through improved synergies with Cohesion Policy instruments and interregional cooperation. |
Lina Gálvez, Elena Sancho Murillo, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Christophe Clergeau, Giorgio Gori, Sofie Eriksson, Matthias Ecke, René Repasi
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| (29) Support measures are needed to strengthen and better connect innovation ecosystems. Such measures should support organisations and innovators to create competitive, robust and connected innovation ecosystems and improve framework conditions through cooperation and knowledge exchange. They should help connect national, regional, and local ecosystems by removing barriers in the single market such as market fragmentation, limited capital access and segmented national capital markets, slow innovation uptake and the underutilisation of innovation procurement. | (29) Support measures are needed to strengthen and better connect innovation ecosystems. Such measures should support organisations and innovators to create competitive, robust and connected innovation ecosystems and improve framework conditions through cooperation and knowledge exchange. They should help connect national, regional, and local ecosystems by removing barriers in the single market such as market fragmentation, limited capital access and segmented national capital markets, slow innovation uptake and the underutilisation of innovation procurement. The existing tools such as Regional Innovation Valleys (RIVs), the Seal of Excellence, Interreg and renewed Smart Specialisation (S3/S4) should be maintained within the next Programme, together with relevant European Mission initiatives and Digital Innovation Hubs (DiHs/EDiHs), as they all promote networking among innovation ecosystems. |
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| (29) Support measures are needed to strengthen and better connect innovation ecosystems. Such measures should support organisations and innovators to create competitive, robust and connected innovation ecosystems and improve framework conditions through cooperation and knowledge exchange. They should help connect national, regional, and local ecosystems by removing barriers in the single market such as market fragmentation, limited capital access and segmented national capital markets, slow innovation uptake and the underutilisation of innovation procurement. | (29) Support measures are needed to strengthen and better connect innovation ecosystems. Such coherent and streamlined measures should support activities to create and strengthen competitive, robust and connected innovation ecosystems, boost new R&I collaborations and expand existing ones across the Union, and improve framework conditions through cooperation and knowledge exchange. Those measures should also support the Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs) of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT). They should connect national, regional, and local ecosystems, foster the valorisation and uptake of research and innovation results and help overcome market fragmentation, limited capital access and segmented national capital markets, slow innovation uptake and the underutilisation of innovation procurement |
Elena Donazzan, Nicola Procaccini, Mariateresa Vivaldini, Carlo Ciccioli, Alessandro Ciriani, Pietro Fiocchi, Lara Magoni, Francesco Torselli, Anna Zalewska
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| (29) Support measures are needed to strengthen and better connect innovation ecosystems. Such measures should support organisations and innovators to create competitive, robust and connected innovation ecosystems and improve framework conditions through cooperation and knowledge exchange. They should help connect national, regional, and local ecosystems by removing barriers in the single market such as market fragmentation, limited capital access and segmented national capital markets, slow innovation uptake and the underutilisation of innovation procurement. | (29) Support measures are needed to strengthen and better connect innovation ecosystems. Such measures should support organisations and innovators to create competitive, robust and connected innovation ecosystems, including territorial and maritime innovation ecosystems that integrate spatial planning capacities, coastal governance, and multi-level stakeholder coordination as preconditions for effective R&I deployment, and improve framework conditions through cooperation and knowledge exchange. They should help connect national, regional, and local ecosystems by removing barriers in the single market such as market fragmentation, limited capital access and segmented national capital markets, slow innovation uptake and the underutilisation of innovation procurement. |
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| (29) Support measures are needed to strengthen and better connect innovation ecosystems. Such measures should support organisations and innovators to create competitive, robust and connected innovation ecosystems and improve framework conditions through cooperation and knowledge exchange. They should help connect national, regional, and local ecosystems by removing barriers in the single market such as market fragmentation, limited capital access and segmented national capital markets, slow innovation uptake and the underutilisation of innovation procurement. | (29) Support measures are needed to strengthen and better connect innovation ecosystems. Such measures should support organisations and innovators to create inclusive, territorially balanced, democratically governed and socially useful innovation ecosystems, including through support for public research bodies, local authorities, public-service providers, cooperatives, social enterprises and civil-society actors They should help connect national, regional, and local ecosystems by removing barriers in the single market such as market fragmentation, limited capital access and segmented national capital markets, slow innovation uptake and the underutilisation of innovation procurement. |
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| (29) Support measures are needed to strengthen and better connect innovation ecosystems. Such measures should support organisations and innovators to create competitive, robust and connected innovation ecosystems and improve framework conditions through cooperation and knowledge exchange. They should help connect national, regional, and local ecosystems by removing barriers in the single market such as market fragmentation, limited capital access and segmented national capital markets, slow innovation uptake and the underutilisation of innovation procurement. | (29) Support measures are needed to strengthen and better connect innovation ecosystems. Such measures should support public authorities, organisations and innovators to create competitive, robust and connected innovation ecosystems and improve framework conditions through cooperation and knowledge exchange. They should help connect national, regional, and local ecosystems by removing barriers in the single market such as market fragmentation, limited capital access and segmented national capital markets, slow innovation uptake and the underutilisation of innovation procurement. |
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| (29 a) The Programme may support projects that include research with defence relevance, including explicit defence applications, while retaining its identity as a civil research programme. To that end, a layered "dual-use by default" approach should apply, which is designed to ensure and protect academic freedom. Calls should carry an ex-ante indication of the likely applicability of Union export-control rules to their results, to inform applicants of downstream obligations, without that indication affecting eligibility, evaluation or project-implementation security requirements. Security-related measures should be calibrated to the defence proximity of each project, assessed on a proportionate scale and determined at project level. Where specific work packages are oriented towards defence applications, they should be structurally separable from the civil work packages of the same project, funded from the Specific Programme on defence research established under the European Competitiveness Fund, and subject to the security requirements of that Specific Programme. Participants unwilling to assume those obligations should be able to take part in the civil work packages only. This approach ensures that heightened security obligations attach only where defence orientation has been established and can be insulated, avoids deterring researchers unwilling or unable to engage in defence-related work, and keeps the Union's export-control framework informed of the research it supports. |
Julie Rechagneux, Pascale Piera, Aleksandar Nikolic, Mélanie Disdier, Jorge Martín Frías, András Gyürk
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| (29 a) Support measures are needed under the Programme to reduce administrative burden and improve the effectiveness of Union research and innovation policies. Such measures should strengthen cooperation with Member States, support investment in administrative capacity, digital tools and data, and ensure more structured engagement with stakeholders across the research and innovation ecosystem. They should introduce simplification targets, reinforced SME and competitiveness checks, systematic scrutiny of delegated and implementing acts and gradual stress-testing of existing rules in order to ensure a simpler, more focused and more impactful regulatory framework and Union budget for the Programme. They should promote smart and digital delivery of Programme actions from the design phase, include reality checks on implementation, and ensure regular reporting on progress to guarantee transparency and accountability. They should also strengthen cooperation with the co-legislators to deliver clearer, more efficient and user-centred rules for participation, thereby supporting competitiveness, innovation and effective implementation of the Programme. |
Lina Gálvez, Elena Sancho Murillo, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Christophe Clergeau, Giorgio Gori, Sofie Eriksson, Matthias Ecke, René Repasi
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| (29 a) New industrial and technological capabilities, which are key to Europe's competitiveness, are territorially embedded, and Europe’s strength lies in the coordination of its diverse regional specialisations. Smart Specialisation Strategies (S3) provide the only EU-wide methodology capable of aligning regional strengths with EU strategic priorities, supporting diversification into related technologies, and enabling structured interregional cooperation based on complementarity rather than duplication. Therefore, S3 priorities should be systematically recognised and used across EU funding instruments to bridge top-down EU strategic goals with bottom up regional innovation, integrating local strengths into Europe’s industrial value chains. |
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| (29 a) The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT), primarily through its Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs) and by expanding its Regional Innovation Scheme, should aim to strengthen innovation ecosystems that tackle global challenges. This should be achieved by fostering the integration of the knowledge triangle – higher education, research and innovation, and business. Support schemes provided by the EIT should benefit EIC beneficiaries, while start-ups emerging from the EIT's KICs should have simplified and thereby faster access to EIC actions. |
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| (29 a) The Programme shall support Systemic Innovation Demonstrators to bridge the gap between research excellence and structural transformation in EU Regions. These are long-term, multi-actor processes integrating research, governance, financial mobilisation and societal engagement to deliver sustained transitions in economic, institutional or territorial systems, serving as replicable models and adaptive learning platforms. |
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| (29 b) Innovation procurement programmes can act as a powerful demand-side driver that reduces investment risks and creates new markets aligned with Union policy objectives, thereby stimulating demand and accelerating industrial scaling-up. They should be oriented towards the best solutions rather than specific technologies, and require clear and consistent guidelines to ensure effective implementation. |
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| (30) The actions supported under this Regulation should accelerate or boost investments by addressing market failures or sub-optimal investment situations, in a proportionate manner, avoiding duplication or crowding out, and by incentivising private funding, and have Union added-value. Without prejudice to the application of Articles 107 and 108 TFEU to national resources, this should also ensure consistency between the actions under the Programme and the State aid rules, thereby avoiding undue distortions of competition in the internal market. | (30) The actions supported under this Regulation should accelerate or boost investments by addressing market failures or sub-optimal investment situations, in a proportionate manner, avoiding duplication or crowding out, and by incentivising private funding, and have Union added-value. Without prejudice to the application of Articles 107 and 108 TFEU to national resources, this should also ensure consistency between the actions under the Programme and the State aid rules, thereby avoiding undue distortions of competition in the internal market. The Parliament underlines that, in practice, rigid eligibility conditions and State aid constraints under shared-management innovation schemes may prevent high-risk, research-based and deep-tech start-ups—often operating in long pre-revenue phases—from accessing support, which undermines the objective of building a Union-wide pipeline of innovative companies. The Programme should therefore promote better alignment and complementarity between Horizon support and shared-management instruments, so that disruptive innovation with longer time-to-market horizons is not structurally excluded. |
Rigid eligibility conditions and State aid constraints under shared-management schemes create a structural mismatch with the risk profile and long pre-revenue cycles of deep-tech start-ups, effectively excluding the very companies capable of delivering disruptive innovation. Better alignment between Horizon and cohesion-based instruments is therefore essential to ensure a coherent EU innovation pipeline and to strengthen competitiveness across all regions.
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| (30) The actions supported under this Regulation should accelerate or boost investments by addressing market failures or sub-optimal investment situations, in a proportionate manner, avoiding duplication or crowding out, and by incentivising private funding, and have Union added-value. Without prejudice to the application of Articles 107 and 108 TFEU to national resources, this should also ensure consistency between the actions under the Programme and the State aid rules, thereby avoiding undue distortions of competition in the internal market. | (30) The actions supported under this Regulation should accelerate or boost investments by addressing market failures or sub-optimal investment situations, in a proportionate manner, avoiding duplication or crowding out, and by incentivising private funding and public-private partnerships, and have Union added-value. Without prejudice to the application of Articles 107 and 108 TFEU to national resources, this should also ensure consistency between the actions under the Programme and the State aid rules, thereby avoiding undue distortions of competition in the internal market. |
Sandro Ruotolo, Saskia Bricmont, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Hannah Neumann, Brando Benifei, Alessandro Zan, Annalisa Corrado
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| (30 a) In accordance with Article 4 (3)(c) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1083 (European Media Freedom Act) Member States shall ensure that journalistic sources and confidential communications are effectively protected, as well as they shall not deploy intrusive surveillance software on any material, digital device, machine or tool used by media service providers, their editorial staff or any persons who, because of their regular or professional relationship with a media service provider or its editorial staff, might have information related to or capable of identifying journalistic sources or confidential communications; |
Sandro Ruotolo, Saskia Bricmont, Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová, Hannah Neumann, Brando Benifei, Alessandro Zan, Annalisa Corrado
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| (30 b) Paragraph 111 of the European Parliament recommendation of 15 June 2023 to the Council and the Commission calls for the implementation of more rigorous and effective control mechanisms to ensure that Union research funds do not fund or facilitate tools, including spyware and surveillance tools, that infringe EU values; notes that assessments of compliance with Union law should contain specific control criteria to prevent such abuses; calls for the termination of Union research funds to entities that are or have been involved in the direct or indirect facilitation of human rights violations with surveillance \000000EN.doc 5/5 EN tools; |
Lina Gálvez, Elena Sancho Murillo, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Christophe Clergeau, Giorgio Gori, Sofie Eriksson, Matthias Ecke, René Repasi
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| (31) This Regulation lays down an indicative financial envelope for Horizon Europe, the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation for the period 2028-2034. | (31) This Regulation lays down an indicative financial envelope for Horizon Europe, the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation for the period 2028-2034. Funding from this envelope should not be diverted to other programmes or priorities without the approval of the legislators. |
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| (32) Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2024/25098 applies to the Programme. It lays down the rules on the establishment and the implementation of the general budget of the Union, including the rules on grants, prizes, non-financial donations, procurement, indirect management, financial assistance, financial instruments and budgetary guarantees. | (32) Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2024/25098 applies to the Programme. It lays down the rules on the establishment and the implementation of the general budget of the Union, including the rules on grants, prizes, non-financial donations, procurement, indirect management, financial assistance, financial instruments and budgetary guarantees. Research, development and innovation expenditure is recognised as a high-risk spending area, with material errors identified in actual cost grants. Efforts to simplify financial management should not come at the expense of accountability, effectiveness, efficiency and economy. Ensuring sound financial management, compliance, transparency and traceability in the use of Union funds remains essential, alongside improved monitoring of fund absorption, the identification of obstacles to their use and the implementation of measures to address underspending and better steer the Programme, while supporting researchers in accessing Union research funding. |
| 8 Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2024/2509 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 September 2024 on the financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union (OJ L, 2024/2509, 26.9.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/2509/oj). | 8 Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2024/2509 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 September 2024 on the financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union (OJ L, 2024/2509, 26.9.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/2509/oj). |
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| (32) Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2024/25098 applies to the Programme. It lays down the rules on the establishment and the implementation of the general budget of the Union, including the rules on grants, prizes, non-financial donations, procurement, indirect management, financial assistance, financial instruments and budgetary guarantees. | (32) Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2024/25098 applies to the Programme. It lays down the rules on the establishment and the implementation of the general budget of the Union, including the rules on grants, prizes, non-financial donations, procurement, indirect management, financial assistance, financial instruments and budgetary guarantees. This Regulation provides for targeted clarifications regarding specific provisions of the [Financial Regulation] to this Programme in order to ensure the proper functioning of the Programme and its ability to deliver on its objectives. |
| 8 Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2024/2509 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 September 2024 on the financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union (OJ L, 2024/2509, 26.9.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/2509/oj). | 8 Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2024/2509 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 September 2024 on the financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union (OJ L, 2024/2509, 26.9.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/2509/oj). |
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| (34) Where Union support under the Programme is to be provided in the form of a budgetary guarantee or a financial instrument, including where combined with non-repayable support in a blending operation, with the exception of financial instruments under the EIC, such support should be provided exclusively through the ECF InvestEU Instrument in accordance with the applicable rules of the ECF InvestEU Instrument. | (34) Where Union support under the Programme is to be provided in the form of a budgetary guarantee or a financial instrument, including where combined with non-repayable support in a blending operation, with the exception of financial instruments under the EIC, such support can be provided through the ECF InvestEU Instrument in accordance with the applicable rules of the ECF InvestEU Instrument. |
Wouter Beke, Willemien Koning, Seán Kelly, Angelika Winzig, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Angelika Niebler, Andrea Wechsler
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| (36) The Programme is to be implemented in accordance with Regulation (EU) XXX of the European Parliament and of the Council [Performance Regulation] which establishes the rules for the expenditure tracking and the performance framework for the budget, including rules for ensuring a uniform application of the principles of ‘do no significant harm’ and gender equality referred to in Article 33(2), points (d) and (f), as well as the provisions on accessibility for persons with disabilities reflected in Articles 17.3, 20.4 and 21.1 of Annex I, of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2024/2509 respectively and in line with the accessibility requirements of Annex I and III of directive 2019/882, rules for monitoring and reporting on the performance of Union programmes and activities, rules for establishing a Union funding portal, rules for the evaluation of the programmes, as well as other horizontal provisions applicable to all Union programmes such as those on information, communication and visibility. | (36) The Programme is to be implemented in accordance with Regulation (EU) XXX of the European Parliament and of the Council [Performance Regulation] which establishes the rules for the expenditure tracking and the performance framework for the budget, including rules for ensuring a uniform application of the horizontal principles of ‘do no significant harm’ and gender equality referred to in Article 33(2), points (d) and (f), as well as the provisions on accessibility for persons with disabilities reflected in Articles 17.3, 20.4 and 21.1 of Annex I, of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2024/2509 respectively and in line with the accessibility requirements of Annex I and III of directive 2019/882, rules for monitoring and reporting on the performance of Union programmes and activities, rules for establishing a Union funding portal, rules for the evaluation of the programmes, as well as other horizontal provisions applicable to all Union programmes such as those on information, communication and visibility. In line with Article 33(2), points d, e and f of the [Financial Regulation], the uniform application of the horizontal principles will be in accordance with the sector specific rules set out in this Regulation which determine where the application of the principles is feasible and appropriate. |
Lina Gálvez, Elena Sancho Murillo, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Christophe Clergeau, Giorgio Gori, Sofie Eriksson, Matthias Ecke, René Repasi
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| (36) The Programme is to be implemented in accordance with Regulation (EU) XXX of the European Parliament and of the Council [Performance Regulation] which establishes the rules for the expenditure tracking and the performance framework for the budget, including rules for ensuring a uniform application of the principles of ‘do no significant harm’ and gender equality referred to in Article 33(2), points (d) and (f), as well as the provisions on accessibility for persons with disabilities reflected in Articles 17.3, 20.4 and 21.1 of Annex I, of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2024/2509 respectively and in line with the accessibility requirements of Annex I and III of directive 2019/882, rules for monitoring and reporting on the performance of Union programmes and activities, rules for establishing a Union funding portal, rules for the evaluation of the programmes, as well as other horizontal provisions applicable to all Union programmes such as those on information, communication and visibility. | (36) The Programme should ensure the effective mainstreaming of horizontal principles, including the promotion of gender equality, the integration of the gender dimension in research and innovation content, and the principle of 'do no significant harm'. To ensure consistency across the Union budget, the Programme is to be implemented in accordance with Regulation (EU) XXX of the European Parliament and of the Council [Performance Regulation] regarding the technical rules for the expenditure tracking and the overarching performance framework. This includes the application of uniform reporting standards for the principles referred to in Article 33(2), points (d) and (f), as well as the provisions on accessibility for persons with disabilities reflected in Articles 17.3, 20.4 and 21.1 of Annex I, of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2024/2509 respectively and in line with the accessibility requirements of Annex I and III of directive 2019/882. The Performance Regulation should further provide the framework for the Union funding portal and horizontal rules on information, communication and visibility, without prejudice to the specificities and substantive requirements of research and innovation activities. |
Julie Rechagneux, Pascale Piera, Aleksandar Nikolic, Mélanie Disdier, Jorge Martín Frías, Silvia Sardone, Isabella Tovaglieri, Raffaele Stancanelli
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| (36) The Programme is to be implemented in accordance with Regulation (EU) XXX of the European Parliament and of the Council [Performance Regulation] which establishes the rules for the expenditure tracking and the performance framework for the budget, including rules for ensuring a uniform application of the principles of ‘do no significant harm’ and gender equality referred to in Article 33(2), points (d) and (f), as well as the provisions on accessibility for persons with disabilities reflected in Articles 17.3, 20.4 and 21.1 of Annex I, of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2024/2509 respectively and in line with the accessibility requirements of Annex I and III of directive 2019/882, rules for monitoring and reporting on the performance of Union programmes and activities, rules for establishing a Union funding portal, rules for the evaluation of the programmes, as well as other horizontal provisions applicable to all Union programmes such as those on information, communication and visibility. | (36) The Programme is to be implemented in accordance with Regulation (EU) XXX of the European Parliament and of the Council [Performance Regulation] which establishes the rules for the expenditure tracking and the performance framework for the budget, as well as the provisions on accessibility for persons with disabilities reflected in Articles 17.3, 20.4 and 21.1 of Annex I, of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2024/2509 respectively and in line with the accessibility requirements of Annex I and III of directive 2019/882, rules for monitoring and reporting on the performance of Union programmes and activities, rules for establishing a Union funding portal, rules for the evaluation of the programmes, as well as other horizontal provisions applicable to all Union programmes such as those on information, communication and visibility. |
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| (36) The Programme is to be implemented in accordance with Regulation (EU) XXX of the European Parliament and of the Council [Performance Regulation] which establishes the rules for the expenditure tracking and the performance framework for the budget, including rules for ensuring a uniform application of the principles of ‘do no significant harm’ and gender equality referred to in Article 33(2), points (d) and (f), as well as the provisions on accessibility for persons with disabilities reflected in Articles 17.3, 20.4 and 21.1 of Annex I, of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2024/2509 respectively and in line with the accessibility requirements of Annex I and III of directive 2019/882, rules for monitoring and reporting on the performance of Union programmes and activities, rules for establishing a Union funding portal, rules for the evaluation of the programmes, as well as other horizontal provisions applicable to all Union programmes such as those on information, communication and visibility. | (36) The Programme is to be implemented in accordance with Regulation (EU) XXX of the European Parliament and of the Council [Performance Regulation] which establishes the rules for the expenditure tracking and the performance framework for the budget, including rules for ensuring a uniform application of the principles of ‘do no significant harm’, including in the context of regional cohesion, and gender equality referred to in Article 33(2), points (d) and (f), as well as the provisions on accessibility for persons with disabilities reflected in Articles 17.3, 20.4 and 21.1 of Annex I, of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2024/2509 respectively and in line with the accessibility requirements of Annex I and III of directive 2019/882, rules for monitoring and reporting on the performance of Union programmes and activities, rules for establishing a Union funding portal, rules for the evaluation of the programmes, as well as other horizontal provisions applicable to all Union programmes such as those on information, communication and visibility. |
Wouter Beke, Willemien Koning, Seán Kelly, Radan Kanev, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Angelika Niebler, Andrea Wechsler
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| (36 a) The pace of scientific and technological development is such that research and innovation actions may need to be adapted during their implementation in order to remain at the frontier of knowledge and to maximise their impact. Such adaptations, including modifications to the Description of the Action or to the consortium of beneficiaries, may constitute a necessary scientific response to new discoveries, emerging technologies or unforeseen opportunities, rather than a deviation from the original award. It would be contrary to the objectives of this Regulation to treat such adaptations as grounds for challenging the grant award decision or the principle of equal treatment of applicants. Any request for such an amendment should be subject to mandatory review by external experts, including in particular the expert teams responsible for the scientific oversight of the action and, where applicable, the EIC Programme Managers, whose proximity to the action places them in the best position to assess whether a proposed amendment genuinely reflects scientific or technological progress. |
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| (36 a) Concerning the gender equality mainstreaming, the Programme should build on and advance efforts over the previous Framework Programmes, in order to further promote it across all components of the Programme and towards additional categories of stakeholders. |
Elena Donazzan, Bert-Jan Ruissen, Mariateresa Vivaldini, Alessandro Ciriani, Carlo Ciccioli, Lara Magoni, Pietro Fiocchi, Francesco Torselli
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| (38 a) The Union, as a Party to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), is obliged to ensure that all its legislation, policies, and funding programmes fully comply with the Convention. In its Concluding Observations of 31 March 2025 on the combined second and third periodic reports of the European Union (CRPD/C/EUR/CO/2-3), the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities highlighted concerns regarding discriminatory eugenic attitudes towards persons with disabilities in the context of prenatal medical diagnosis. The Committee recommended that the Union take sustained action to combat stigma, ableism, and discrimination in prenatal diagnosis, and to ensure adequate support for persons with disabilities and for parents of children with disabilities. Accordingly, Union funding initiatives, including research and innovation programmes, must be designed and implemented in full compliance with the CRPD, avoiding any direct or indirect contribution to discriminatory practices, while actively promoting inclusion, equality, and respect for the inherent dignity of persons with disabilities1a. | |
| 1a 31.03.2025 – Concluding observations on the combined second and third periodic reports of the European Union: CRPD/C/EUR/CO/2-3 |
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| 1. This Regulation establishes Horizon Europe - the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (the ‘Programme’) for the period of the Multiannual Financial Framework (the ‘MFF’) 2028-2034 and sets out the rules for participation and dissemination concerning indirect actions under the Programme and determines the framework governing the Union support for Research and Innovation activities for the same duration. It also lays down the objectives of the Programme and its budget for that period, the forms of Union funding and the rules for providing such funding. | 1. This Regulation establishes Horizon Europe - the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (the ‘Programme’) for the period of the Multiannual Financial Framework (the ‘MFF’) 2028-2034, with the possibility of a mid-term review and adjustment to respond to emerging scientific and societal challenges and sets out the rules for participation and dissemination concerning indirect actions under the Programme, with simplified procedures for SMEs, startups, and public-private partnerships to encourage wider participation and determines the framework governing the Union support for Research and Innovation activities for the same duration. It also lays down the objectives of the Programme, includind fostering excellence in scientific research, supporting cross-border collaboration and ensuring inclusiveness of underrepresented regions and groups in R&I and its budget for that period, the forms of Union funding and the rules for providing such funding, including grants, prizes, equity investments and procurement-based support, with clear criteria for eligibility and evaluation. In this context, the Programme shall contribute to strengthening the Union`s industrial and technological base, supporting the development and uptake of emerging digital technologies, including artificial intelligence and promoting the transition towards sustainable and energy-efficient solutions. It shall also foster of knowledge and technology and ensure a balanced participation across Member States, thereby reinforcing the European Research Area and the Union`s global competitiveness. |
Julie Rechagneux, Pascale Piera, Aleksandar Nikolic, Mélanie Disdier, Silvia Sardone, Isabella Tovaglieri, Raffaele Stancanelli, Barbara Bonte
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| 1. This Regulation establishes Horizon Europe - the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (the ‘Programme’) for the period of the Multiannual Financial Framework (the ‘MFF’) 2028-2034 and sets out the rules for participation and dissemination concerning indirect actions under the Programme and determines the framework governing the Union support for Research and Innovation activities for the same duration. It also lays down the objectives of the Programme and its budget for that period, the forms of Union funding and the rules for providing such funding. | 1. This Regulation establishes Horizon Europe - the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (the ‘Programme’) for the period of the Multiannual Financial Framework (the ‘MFF’) 2028-2034 and sets out the rules for participation and dissemination concerning indirect actions under the Programme and determines the framework governing the Union support for Research and Innovation activities for the same duration. It also lays down the objectives of the Programme and its budget for that period, the forms of Union funding and the rules for providing such funding. It further defines the Programme’s funding architecture by providing a clear and transparent breakdown of allocations across all pillars, and clarifies the linkages between the European Competitiveness Fund (ECF) and Horizon Europe, notably as regards the alignment of boards, governance arrangements, scientific steering, and comitology structures. |
Lina Gálvez, Elena Sancho Murillo, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Christophe Clergeau, Matthias Ecke, René Repasi
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| (a) the Specific Programme established by Council Decision XX including the collaborative research activities of the policy windows as set out in the European Competitive Fund Regulation. | (a) the Specific Programme established by Council Decision XX |
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| (a) the Specific Programme established by Council Decision XX including the collaborative research activities of the policy windows as set out in the European Competitive Fund Regulation. | (a) the Specific Programme established by Council Decision XX |
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| (a) the Specific Programme established by Council Decision XX including the collaborative research activities of the policy windows as set out in the European Competitive Fund Regulation. | (a) the Specific Programme established by Council Decision XX; |
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| (a) the Specific Programme established by Council Decision XX including the collaborative research activities of the policy windows as set out in the European Competitive Fund Regulation. | (a) the Specific Programme established by Council Decision XX. |
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| (b) the Specific Programme on defence research established by Regulation (EU)[XXX] [European Competitiveness Fund]. | deleted |
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| Specific synergies with collaborative research activities under the Research and Training Programme of the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom), established by Regulation (EU) [XXX], shall be promoted through cross-eligible and jointly funded calls. |
Elena Donazzan, Nicola Procaccini, Mariateresa Vivaldini, Carlo Ciccioli, Alessandro Ciriani, Pietro Fiocchi, Lara Magoni, Francesco Torselli, Anna Zalewska
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| (b a) specific synergies on collaborative research activities with the Research and Training Programme of the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) established by Regulation (EU)[XXX] through co-funded and cross-eligible calls. |
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| 3. This Regulation shall not apply to the Specific Programme on defence research referred to in paragraph 2, point (b). Activities to be carried out under this Specific Programme and which are laid down in Regulation (EU)[XXX][European Competitiveness Fund] shall aim to foster the competitiveness, efficiency and innovation capacity of the European defence technological and industrial base. | deleted |
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| 3. This Regulation shall not apply to the Specific Programme on defence research referred to in paragraph 2, point (b). Activities to be carried out under this Specific Programme and which are laid down in Regulation (EU)[XXX][European Competitiveness Fund] shall aim to foster the competitiveness, efficiency and innovation capacity of the European defence technological and industrial base. | 3. This Regulation shall not apply to the Specific Programme on defence research referred to in paragraph 2, point (b). Activities to be carried out under this Specific Programme and which are laid down in Regulation (EU)[XXX][European Competitiveness Fund] shall aim to foster the technological superiority, sustainability, resilience, efficiency, interoperability, integration and innovation capacity of the European defence technological and industrial base. |
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| 4 a. For activities of the Programme where specific applications may be part of the scope, the Programme shall ensure systematic civilian nature and primary focus on civil applications, while contributing to address scientific and technological gaps of high relevance for the entire society. In particular, the Programme may support activities that contribute to the innovative potential of defence industry, provided that the award procedure does not discriminate against applications focused exclusively on the relevant civilian applications, and without prejudice to the Article 25. |
Julie Rechagneux, Pascale Piera, Aleksandar Nikolic, Mélanie Disdier, Jorge Martín Frías, Barbara Bonte
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| (1) ‘research infrastructures’ are facilities that provide resources and services to conduct research and foster innovation in their fields; | (1) ‘research infrastructures’ are facilities, equipment, capabilities, collections, archives, scientific data infrastructures that provide resources and services to conduct research and foster innovation in their fields; research infrastructures are often operational for several decades and represent long-term strategic investments that require careful planning as well as continuous and stable support; their impact extends far beyond the production of scientific results and knowledge, as they constitute focal points for the development of innovation ecosystems at multiple scales. These public investments play a critical role in absorbing high-risk costs and long capital immobilisation that private actors are often unwilling to bear, while offering testing and experimentation environments that can improve productivity and foster innovation without requiring firms to commit excessive upfront investment. Research infrastructures cover a wide range of functions, from routine scientific activities to frontier research, as well as testing, validation and demonstration capacities; they enable innovation across sectors, while at the same time often constituting innovations in themselves, through the development of cutting-edge facilities, instruments and technological capabilities. |
Lina Gálvez, Elena Sancho Murillo, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Christophe Clergeau, Giorgio Gori, Sofie Eriksson, Matthias Ecke, René Repasi
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| (1) ‘research infrastructures’ are facilities that provide resources and services to conduct research and foster innovation in their fields; | (1) ‘research infrastructures’ means facilities that provide resources and services to conduct research and foster innovation in their fields, including the associated human resources, major equipment or sets of instruments; knowledge-related facilities such as collections, archives or scientific data infrastructures; computing systems, communication networks and any other infrastructure of a unique nature and open to external users, essential to achieve excellence in R&I; they may, where relevant, be used beyond research, for example for education or public services and they may be 'single sited', 'virtual' or 'distributed'; |
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| (1) ‘research infrastructures’ are facilities that provide resources and services to conduct research and foster innovation in their fields; | (1) ‘research infrastructures’ are facilities that provide resources and services to conduct research and foster innovation in their fields, including the associated human resources, equipment, sets of instruments; |
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| (2) ‘technology infrastructures’ are facilities, equipment, capabilities and resources required to develop, test, upscale and validate technology - from pre-competitive applied research services up to demonstration and validation; | (2) ‘technology infrastructures’ are facilities, equipment, capabilities and resources, such as test beds, pilot lines, pilot plants, demonstration facilities, cleanrooms and living labs, inter alia. required to develop, test, upscale and validate technology - from pre-competitive applied research services up to demonstration and validation; |
Lina Gálvez, Elena Sancho Murillo, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Christophe Clergeau, Giorgio Gori, Sofie Eriksson, Matthias Ecke, René Repasi
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| (2) ‘technology infrastructures’ are facilities, equipment, capabilities and resources required to develop, test, upscale and validate technology - from pre-competitive applied research services up to demonstration and validation; | (2) ‘technology infrastructures’ are facilities, equipment, capabilities and resources required to develop, test, upscale and validate technology - from pre-competitive applied research services up to demonstration and validation enabling and accelerating technological innovations towards societal/market adoption, fostering competitiveness; |
Lina Gálvez, Elena Sancho Murillo, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Christophe Clergeau, Giorgio Gori, Sofie Eriksson, Matthias Ecke, René Repasi
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| (4) ‘blended finance’ means financial support provided under the European Innovation Council (‘EIC’) consisting of a combination of a grant and an investment; | (4) ‘blended finance’ means financial support provided under the European Innovation Council (‘EIC’) consisting of a combination of a grant and an investment in equity or other repayable form of support; |
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| (6) ‘European Partnership’ means an initiative, where the Union together with private and/or public partners commit to jointly supporting the development, implementation and evaluation of a programme of activities, and where the costs are shared between all partners; | (6) ‘European Partnership’ means an initiative, where the Union together with private and/or public partners such as industry, research organizations, local and regional authorities, commit to jointly supporting the development, implementation and evaluation of a programme of activities, and where the costs are shared between all partners; |
Elena Donazzan, Nicola Procaccini, Mariateresa Vivaldini, Carlo Ciccioli, Alessandro Ciriani, Pietro Fiocchi, Lara Magoni, Francesco Torselli
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| (6) ‘European Partnership’ means an initiative, where the Union together with private and/or public partners commit to jointly supporting the development, implementation and evaluation of a programme of activities, and where the costs are shared between all partners; | (6) ‘European Partnership’ means an initiative, where the Union together with private and/or public partners commit to jointly supporting the development, implementation and evaluation of a programme of activities; |
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| (6) ‘European Partnership’ means an initiative, where the Union together with private and/or public partners commit to jointly supporting the development, implementation and evaluation of a programme of activities, and where the costs are shared between all partners; | (6) ‘European Partnership’ means an initiative, where the Union together with private and/or public partners commit to jointly supporting the development, implementation and evaluation of a programme of activities; |
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| (6) ‘European Partnership’ means an initiative, where the Union together with private and/or public partners commit to jointly supporting the development, implementation and evaluation of a programme of activities, and where the costs are shared between all partners; | (6) ‘European Partnership’ means an initiative, where the Union and Member States together with private and/or public partners commit to jointly supporting the development, implementation and evaluation of a programme of activities, and where the costs are shared between all partners; |
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| (6) ‘European Partnership’ means an initiative, where the Union together with private and/or public partners commit to jointly supporting the development, implementation and evaluation of a programme of activities, and where the costs are shared between all partners; | (6) ‘European Partnership’ means a multilateral initiative, where the Union together with private and/or public partners commit to jointly supporting the development, implementation and evaluation of a programme of activities, and where the costs are shared between all partners; |
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| (6) ‘European Partnership’ means an initiative, where the Union together with private and/or public partners commit to jointly supporting the development, implementation and evaluation of a programme of activities, and where the costs are shared between all partners; | (6) European Partnership’ means pan-European initiative, where the Union together with private and/or public partners commit to jointly supporting the development, implementation and evaluation of a programme of activities, and where the costs are shared between all partners |
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| (6 a) ‘Research security’ refers to anticipating, mitigating and managing risks related to: (a) theft, manipulation, the undesirable transfer of critical knowledge and technology, unauthorised access to data and infrastructures that may affect the security of the Union and its Member States, for instance if channelled to military or intelligence purposes in third countries; (b) malign influence on research where research can be instrumentalised by or from third countries in order to inter alia create disinformation or incite self-censorship among students and researchers infringing academic freedom and research and innovation integrity in the Union; (c) ethical or integrity violations, where knowledge and technologies are used to suppress, infringe on or undermine democracy and rule of law, Union values and fundamental rights, as defined in the Treaties. |
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| (6 a) 'smart specialisation strategy' means the national or regional innovation strategy which sets priorities in order to build competitive advantage by developing and matching research and innovation own strengths to business and stakeholders’ needs, including regional, local authorities, and universities in order to address emerging opportunities and market developments in a coherent manner, while avoiding duplication and fragmentation of efforts. |
Lina Gálvez, Elena Sancho Murillo, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Christophe Clergeau, Giorgio Gori, Sofie Eriksson, Matthias Ecke, René Repasi
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| (6 a) 'smart specialisation strategy' is a process of priority setting to build competitive advantage in domains of research and innovation with high potential for a specific region or country, based on business and societal demand, as well as an analysis of international value chains, reducing duplication and fragmentation within the European Research and Innovation Areas. |
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| (6 b) regional innovation ecosystem’ means a territorially based network of actors, including enterprises, research organisations, higher education institutions, public authorities and civil society, which interact to foster research, innovation, skills development and the uptake and scaling-up of innovative solutions. |
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| (11) ‘background' means any data, knowledge or know how whatever its form or nature, tangible or intangible, including any rights such as intellectual property rights, that is held prior to the accession to a given action; | (11) ‘background' means any data, knowledge or know how whatever its form or nature, tangible or intangible, including any rights such as intellectual property rights, that is held prior to the accession to a given action and identified by the beneficiaries in a written agreement as needed for implementing the action or for valorising its results; |
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| (12) ‘valorisation’ means the use of results in further activities other than those covered by the action concerned, including commercial deployment; | (12) ‘valorisation’ means the use of results in further activities other than those covered by the action concerned, including commercial deployment; the transformation of governance systems or institutional frameworks; the development of replicable methodologies enabling systemic transitions; the creation of new markets or financial models; and measurable shifts in investor or institutional behaviour |
Wouter Beke, Willemien Koning, Seán Kelly, Radan Kanev, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Angelika Niebler, Andrea Wechsler
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| (12) ‘valorisation’ means the use of results in further activities other than those covered by the action concerned, including commercial deployment; | (12) 'valorisation’ means the process of creating social and economic value from results in further activities other than those covered by the action concerned, including through standardisation, by transforming data, know-how and results into new products, services, solutions and science-informed public policies, and fostering commercial deployment; |
Correction of AM29 which had removed the reference to activities other than those covered by the action.
Lina Gálvez, Elena Sancho Murillo, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Christophe Clergeau, Giorgio Gori, Sofie Eriksson, Matthias Ecke, René Repasi
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| (12) ‘valorisation’ means the use of results in further activities other than those covered by the action concerned, including commercial deployment; | (12) ‘valorisation’ means the use of results in further activities other than those covered by the action concerned, including commercial deployment, as well as the transformation of results into products, services, policies, or societal solutions that benefit a wider range of stakeholders and society at large; |
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| (12) ‘valorisation’ means the use of results in further activities other than those covered by the action concerned, including commercial deployment; | (12) ‘valorisation’ means the process of creating social and economic value from knowledge by linking different areas and sectors and by transforming data, know-how and research results into sustainable products, services, solutions and knowledge-based policies that benefit society; |
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| (16 a) 'innovative startup' and 'innovative scaleup' mean an innovative startup and an innovative scaleup as defined in the Annex of the Commission Recommendation C(2026) 1800 final of 18 March 2026; |
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| (17 a) (new) 'Seal of Excellence' means a quality label which shows that a proposal submitted to a call for proposals exceeded all of the evaluation thresholds set out in the work programme, but could not be funded due to lack of budget available for that call for proposals in the work programme and might receive support from other Union or national sources of funding; |
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| (18 a) R&I initiative is a long-term bottom-up, EU-wide collaborative initiative that involves entities from significant number of member states to guarantee scale, interdisciplinarity and diversified scientific approach. |
Lina Gálvez, Elena Sancho Murillo, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Christophe Clergeau, Giorgio Gori, Sofie Eriksson, Matthias Ecke, René Repasi
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| (19 a) 'research and innovation action' means a collaborative action primarily consisting of activities aiming to establish new knowledge and, where applicable, to explore the feasibility of a new or improved technology, product, process, service or solution. This may include basic and applied research, technology development and integration, testing, demonstration and validation on a small-scale prototype in a laboratory or simulated environment; |
Aura Salla, Wouter Beke, Willemien Koning, Angelika Winzig, Tomas Tobé, Jörgen Warborn, Andrea Wechsler
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| (20) ‘coordination and support action’ means an action contributing to the objectives of the Programme, excluding research and innovation (R&I) activities, except when undertaken under the component 'widening participation and spreading excellence' of the part IV ’European Research Area’; and bottom-up coordination without co-funding of research activities from the Union that allows for cooperation between legal entities from Member States and associated countries in order to strengthen the ERA; | (20) ‘coordination and support action’ means an action contributing to the objectives of the Programme, excluding research and innovation (R&I) activities, and bottom-up coordination without co-funding of research activities from the Union that allows for cooperation between legal entities from Member States and associated countries in order to strengthen the ERA; |
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| (20 a) ‘research action’ means a collaborative action primarily consisting of basic research activities aiming to push the frontier of science and technology, including early-stage, low-TRL and pre-competitive collaborative research involving academia, industry and other stakeholders; |
Lina Gálvez, Elena Sancho Murillo, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Christophe Clergeau, Giorgio Gori, Sofie Eriksson, Matthias Ecke, René Repasi
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| (23) ‘innovation ecosystem’ means an ecosystem which brings together at Union level organisations whose functional goal is to enable technology development and innovation and which encompasses relations between material resources (such as funds, equipment, and facilities, including research and technology infrastructures), institutional entities (such as higher education institutions and support services, research and technology organisations, companies, investors - including venture capitalists - and financial intermediaries) and national, regional and local policy-making and funding entities. | (23) ‘innovation ecosystem’ means an ecosystem which brings together at local, regional, national and Union level organisations whose functional goal is to enable technology development and innovation and which encompasses relations between material resources (such as funds, equipment, and facilities, including research and technology infrastructures), institutional entities (such as higher education institutions and support services, research and technology organisations, companies, investors - including venture capitalists - and financial intermediaries) and national, regional and local policy-making and funding entities. |
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| (23) ‘innovation ecosystem’ means an ecosystem which brings together at Union level organisations whose functional goal is to enable technology development and innovation and which encompasses relations between material resources (such as funds, equipment, and facilities, including research and technology infrastructures), institutional entities (such as higher education institutions and support services, research and technology organisations, companies, investors - including venture capitalists - and financial intermediaries) and national, regional and local policy-making and funding entities. | (23) ‘innovation ecosystem’ means an ecosystem which brings together at Union level organisations whose functional goal is to enable technology development and innovation and which encompasses relations between material resources (such as funds, equipment, and facilities, including research and technology infrastructures), institutional entities (such as higher education and vocational training institutions and support services, research and technology organisations, companies, investors - including venture capitalists - and financial intermediaries) and national, regional and local policy-making and funding entities. |
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| (23) ‘innovation ecosystem’ means an ecosystem which brings together at Union level organisations whose functional goal is to enable technology development and innovation and which encompasses relations between material resources (such as funds, equipment, and facilities, including research and technology infrastructures), institutional entities (such as higher education institutions and support services, research and technology organisations, companies, investors - including venture capitalists - and financial intermediaries) and national, regional and local policy-making and funding entities. | (23) ‘innovation ecosystem’ means an ecosystem which brings together across the Union organisations whose functional goal is to enable technology development and innovation and which encompasses relations between material resources (such as funds, equipment, and facilities, including research and technology infrastructures), institutional entities (such as higher education institutions and support services, research and technology organisations, companies, investors - including venture capitalists - and financial intermediaries) and national, regional and local policy-making and funding entities. |
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| (24) ‘knowledge triangle’ means the creation of networks between education institutions, research organisations and business with the aim to create innovation ecosystems that cater for the creation of an innovation pipeline from the inception of innovation through entrepreneurial education to the creation of startups and the growth of scale-ups. | (24) ‘knowledge triangle’ means the creation of networks between education institutions, research organisations and business with the aim to create innovation ecosystems that cater for the creation of an innovation pipeline from the inception of innovation through entrepreneurial education to the creation of startups and the growth of scale-ups. |
| (25) ‘transition countries’ means Member States that have achieved a level of research and innovation performance justifying a progression from institutional capacity building towards dedicated leadership and excellence-based measures, with the objective of achieving full integration into the group of leading innovators within the European Research Area. | |
| (26) ‘widening countries’ means Member States whose research and innovation ecosystems require sustained institutional capacity building and systemic reforms to overcome structural disparities, facilitating their initial advancement toward the stage of transition countries and, ultimately, the group of leading innovators. |
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| (24) ‘knowledge triangle’ means the creation of networks between education institutions, research organisations and business with the aim to create innovation ecosystems that cater for the creation of an innovation pipeline from the inception of innovation through entrepreneurial education to the creation of startups and the growth of scale-ups. | (24) ‘knowledge triangle’ means the networks supported and fostered primarily by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) and its Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs) between education institutions, research organisations and business with the aim to support research and innovation ecosystems that cater for the development of an innovation pipeline from the inception of innovation through entrepreneurial education to the creation of startups and the growth of scale-ups. |
The EIT and its KICs serve as the primary instrument for fostering the effective integration of the knowledge triangle (education, research, and innovation) within the Union. The lack of explicit reference to the EIT and the KICs in the Commission proposal creates unnecessary uncertainty regarding their future role and status. Retaining only the generic reference to the 'knowledge triangle' alone leaves the budgetary aspects vague and unclarified. For this reason EIT shall be explicitly included when reference is made to the knowledge triangle.
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| (24 a) 'scientific reference standard' refers to a standard of reproducibility, rigor and unbiased peer review ensuring that funded research is transparent, rigorous and impactful, and that public decisions are informed by the most credible, reliable and impartial scientific evidence available. It entails that science is conducted in a manner that is: (i) reproducible; (ii) transparent; (iii) communicative of error and uncertainty; (iv) collaborative and interdisciplinary; (v) skeptical of its findings and assumptions; (vi) structured for falsifiability of hypotheses; (vii) subject to unbiased peer review; (viii) accepting of negative results as positive outcomes; and (ix) without conflicts of interest. It further implies the absence of research misconduct, including (i) fabrication, defined as making up data or results and recording or reporting them; (ii) falsification, defined as manipulating research materials, equipment or processes, or changing or omitting data or results such that the research is not accurately represented in the research record; and (iii) plagiarism, defined as the appropriation of another person’s ideas, processes, results or words without giving appropriate credit. It also incorporates the “weight of scientific evidence” approach, whereby each piece of relevant information is assessed based on its quality and relevance and transparently integrated with other relevant information to inform scientific evaluation prior to making a judgment. |
Ivars Ijabs, Emma Wiesner, Elisabetta Gualmini, Christophe Grudler, Sophie Wilmès, Morten Løkkegaard, Bart Groothuis, Brigitte van den Berg, Martin Hojsík
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| (24 a) (new)“European Universities Alliances” means partnerships of higher education institutions with the objective of develop joint long-term strategies for high-quality education, research and innovation and for service to society, based on a common vision and shared values, high levels of mobility, and a strong focus on interdisciplinarity and open study programmes combining modules in different countries and fostering systemic, sustainable and mission-driven cooperation across Europe and beyond through shared governance, interoperable structures and integrated strategies; |
Dario Nardella, Stefano Bonaccini, Giorgio Gori, Cristina Maestre, Camilla Laureti, Maria Grapini, Elena Sancho Murillo, Eric Sargiacomo, André Franqueira Rodrigues
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| (24 a) “Multi-Actor Approach” means a form of collaborative research and innovation in which relevant actors who are expected to contribute to, benefit from, or implement the results are meaningfully and continuously involved throughout the research and innovation process, from the definition of needs and objectives to the development, testing, dissemination and uptake of results. This approach aims to ensure that research and innovation activities are co-created, demand-driven, relevant to real-world contexts and more likely to be applied in practice. |
This amendment aims to establish a common definition of the “Multi-Actor Approach”, building on its current formulation in the Cluster 6 Horizon Europe Work Programme 2026–2027. While the approach is widely used across calls, its absence from the legal base has led to divergent interpretations and inconsistent application in proposal design and evaluation.
Introducing a legal definition will enhance coherence, ensure a more consistent implementation across programmes and sectors, and strengthen the quality and impact of collaborative research and innovation actions.
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| (24 a) 'mission' means a portfolio of excellence-based and impact-driven R&I activities across disciplines and sectors, intended to: (i) achieve, within a set timeframe, a measurable goal that could not be achieved through individual actions; (ii) have an impact on society and policy-making through science and technology; and (iii) be relevant for a significant part of the European population and a wide range of European citizens; |
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| (24 a) ‘competitiveness’, encompasses short- and long-term economic benefits and sustainable, lasting, and regenerative growth, including technological, cultural, and societal development, and welfare. It ensures resilience, adaptability, and sustainable success within a dynamic environment of limited resources and evolving challenges. |
Lina Gálvez, Elena Sancho Murillo, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Christophe Clergeau, Giorgio Gori, Sofie Eriksson, Matthias Ecke, René Repasi
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| (24 a) ‘science diplomacy’ means the use of research and innovation cooperation, scientific advice, and shared research infrastructures and data to build trust, support evidence-informed external action, and address global challenges. |
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| (24 b) 'excellence', despite being an “essentially contested concept”1g, may be understood as a multidimensional measure of research quality, including indicators such as the Research Excellence in Science & Technology indicator, used to assess the scientific performance of research systems. It encompasses who conducts, participates in and benefits from research, how research is carried out, and how it is evaluated. It serves, in particular, as a key selection criterion for projects eligible for Union and national funding, and as a benchmark to compare the EU research system with leading global research and academic systems. | |
| Excellence1h requires the concentration of a critical mass of outstanding individual researchers and research teams capable of operating at the highest level, as well as an aggregation of research capacities that enables highly creative and interdisciplinary approaches to addressing complex and global challenges. It also concerns the nature of the problems addressed, namely those that are pressing, complex and intractable, tackled in a coordinated and systemic manner across disciplines and in partnership with world-class institutions, industry, public authorities and societal actors. It relies on a research-intensive environment, including the active involvement of students in research processes. High-quality doctoral training is essential, whereby doctoral candidates are exposed to ethics, research integrity, public engagement, and are supported in conducting independent research. A critical mass of PhD candidates contributes to a strong research community and collegial environment. The postdoctoral phase is equally central, notably through mobility across institutions or countries, fostering exposure to new research cultures, ideas and techniques. It requires a supportive training environment, continued mentoring, and opportunities for postdoctoral researchers to develop independence, including through applying for competitive funding, acquiring teaching experience and obtaining relevant pedagogical qualifications. Excellence is further reinforced by cross-disciplinary collaboration, where teams combine their respective disciplinary strengths to address major scientific and societal challenges. Competitive, peer-reviewed funding mechanisms play a crucial role in driving quality across the research ecosystem. The ability to secure competitive research funding is a core component of excellence. This implies: addressing scientifically ambitious and impactful research questions capable of convincing funding bodies and peer reviewers; supporting proposals with robust arguments and, where possible, preliminary data; formulating clear, testable hypotheses and deploying advanced methodologies, with a preference for research generating new mechanisms rather than purely descriptive outcomes; ensuring clarity and coherence in proposal writing to facilitate evaluation. Excellence also entails the development of strong research leadership. Leading researchers demonstrate a deep understanding of the history and future trajectory of their field, influence its direction, and continuously adapt their research strategies. They show persistence, intellectual risk-taking, and actively mentor and support early-career researchers, fostering an environment in which others can excel. Furthermore, excellence requires a high level of awareness and compliance with research integrity standards, including the responsible handling of research data and the prevention of research misconduct. Finally, it encompasses the identification, protection and valorisation of intellectual property, an entrepreneurial mindset at the individual level, and active engagement with the broader socio-economic environment, including collaboration with industry, consultancy activities and the development of strategic partnerships². | |
| 1g Federico Ferretti et al., Research excellence indicators: time to reimagine the ‘making of’?, Science and Public Policy, 2018. | |
| 1h Michael Arthur, Excellence in Research, 2016.https://www.researchgate.net/publication/301267968_Excellence_in_Research |
Ivars Ijabs, Elisabetta Gualmini, Anna Stürgkh, Christophe Grudler, Sophie Wilmès, Morten Løkkegaard, Michał Kobosko, Bart Groothuis, Martin Hojsík
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| (24 b) (new) “research security” means refers to anticipating and managing risks related to: (a) the undesirable transfer of critical knowledge and technology that may affect the security of the Union and its Member States, for instance if channelled to military or intelligence purposes in third countries; (b) malign influence on research where research can be instrumentalised by or from third countries in order to inter alia create disinformation or incite self-censorship among students and researchers infringing academic freedom and research integrity in the Union; (c) ethical or integrity violations, where knowledge and technologies are used to suppress, infringe on or undermine Union values and fundamental rights, as defined in the Treaties. |
Lina Gálvez, Elena Sancho Murillo, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Christophe Clergeau, Giorgio Gori, Matthias Ecke, René Repasi
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| (24 b) ‘low- and middle-income countries (LMICs)’ means countries classified as low-income, lower-middle-income or upper-middle-income by the World Bank at the time of publication of the relevant work programme. |
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| (24 c) 'competitiveness' refers to the ability to participate in and sustain performance within dynamic processes of competition. Such competition may operate at different levels, including individuals, companies, industries and jurisdictions, without this list being exhaustive1i. At the level of individuals, competitiveness relates to the ability of citizens to compete for employment, career opportunities and access to goods and services, notably through skills, education and capabilities. At the level of companies, it concerns competition for customers in goods and services markets, both in static terms (price, quantity) and in dynamic terms (innovation and imitation). At the level of industries, it involves competition for resources, domestically and internationally, while at the level of jurisdictions (such as regions, States or unions), it refers to competition for investment, industrial location and taxpayers, including through institutional and regulatory frameworks. The policy implications of competitiveness differ significantly depending on the level considered. Enhancing individual competitiveness typically requires investment in education and skills. Supporting firm-level competitiveness may involve subsidies or regulatory advantages, while fostering industry-level competitiveness may rely on broader support to specific sectors. By contrast, promoting competitiveness at the level of jurisdictions primarily involves improving the institutional environment, including reducing administrative burdens, ensuring efficient public services and creating investment-friendly conditions. | |
| Applied to research and innovation systems, competitiveness denotes the capacity to generate, attract and retain talent, resources and investment, and to perform at a level comparable to, or exceeding, global standards. In this context, competitiveness encompasses several interrelated dimensions. It involves, first, the empowerment of researchers, notably through the development of high-level skills, access to excellent research infrastructures, attractive career conditions, and opportunities for mobility and collaboration. Second, it requires agile and efficient institutions capable of adapting to rapidly evolving scientific and technological landscapes, including through streamlined governance, reduced administrative burdens, and regulatory frameworks conducive to experimentation, interdisciplinarity and risk-taking. Third, competitiveness implies systematic benchmarking against global standards of excellence and performance, ensuring international visibility, attractiveness and influence. Fourth, it relies on a strong and coherent innovation pipeline, spanning from fundamental research to applied research, development, deployment and market uptake, supported by effective linkages between academia, industry and public actors, as well as mechanisms enabling the scaling-up of innovation. Finally, competitiveness entails the capacity for valorisation, namely the translation of research results into societal and economic value, including through knowledge transfer, intellectual property management, entrepreneurship and industrial partnerships. In this sense, competitiveness in research systems contributes not only to global positioning, but also to strategic autonomy, resilience and the capacity to address major societal challenges. | |
| 1i Budzinski, Oliver; Stöhr, Annika (2025) : Competitiveness, competition, and competition policy, Ilmenau Economics Discussion Papers, No. 206, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Ilmenau |
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| (24 c) (new) “critical knowledge and technology” refers to knowledge and technology, including know-how, in emerging and disruptive areas and in domains that are key to economic competitiveness, social welfare and the security of the Union and its Member States and in which, consequently, overdependency on third countries is undesirable, taking into account the dynamic nature of research security and evolving risks. That includes but is not limited to research and innovation with dual-use potential. |
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| (24 d) 'research impact' refers to the contribution of research activities to the advancement of knowledge, technological progress and, ultimately, to societal and economic development, through complex, non-linear and often unpredictable processes1j. It encompasses, first, scientific impact, understood as the transformation of disciplines through the production of new knowledge, concepts, models, methods, tools and the exploration of new domains of science, including through interdisciplinary combinations. Second, research impact operates through its contribution to technological progress, recognised as a fundamental driver of economic growth, and resulting from the combined effects of curiosity-driven (basic) research and applied research within a division of labour between public and private actors. Third, research impact is characterised by long-term, indirect and uncertain pathways, whereby fundamental discoveries—often produced without immediate application in mind—may subsequently enable major technological or societal breakthroughs. As such, impact cannot be fully anticipated ex ante, nor reduced to immediate or intended outcomes. Fourth, research impact includes the accumulation and diffusion of knowledge, both codified (e.g. publications) and tacit (skills, know-how, experience), as well as the training of highly skilled researchers capable of addressing complex problems, the development of scientific instruments and methodologies, and the formation of international research networks facilitating knowledge circulation. Fifth, it contributes to the absorptive capacity of research and innovation systems, enabling individuals, organisations and countries to identify, assimilate and exploit knowledge generated elsewhere, thereby positioning themselves at the forefront of knowledge creation and use. Finally, research impact may extend to societal and normative dimensions, including the capacity to inform public debate, shape societal choices and values, and respond to emerging or unforeseen challenges. | |
| 1j https://erc.europa.eu/news/how-define-research-impact |
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| (24 e) 'technological leadership' refers to the capacity to design, develop and deploy advanced technologies, while enabling their effective use, management, assessment and understanding by a broad set of actors within a technological ecosystem1k. It encompasses, first, a structural capability base, grounded in strong performance across four key dimensions: research and development (R&D), scientific publications, innovation outputs, and patents, which together underpin the generation and diffusion of technological knowledge. Second, technological leadership implies a sustained innovation and deployment capacity, reflected in the ability to consistently create and launch new technologies, introduce successive generations of technological advancements ahead of competitors, and deliver innovative products and services, particularly in rapidly evolving domains such as digital and online services, across a wide and diverse range of applications. Third, it includes a forward-looking strategic capability, namely the ability to anticipate how technological developments will shape economic and societal dynamics, and to position accordingly within emerging technological trajectories. Fourth, beyond innovation or market dominance, technological leadership entails the capacity for norm-setting and rule-making, including the shaping of standards, governance frameworks and regulatory approaches, as well as the ability to inspire and coordinate collective action within global technological ecosystems. In this context, different models of technological leadership may emerge, for instance through prioritising ethical governance, democratic values and fundamental rights, or through emphasising affordability, infrastructure development and economic growth. Actors may also strategically combine these approaches to address specific policy, economic or societal objectives. In this sense, technological leadership is not limited to technological superiority or first-mover advantage, but constitutes a systemic capability combining knowledge production, innovation performance, strategic anticipation and normative influence at global level. | |
| 1k Fang, Y., & Zhang, S. (2025). Reconceptualizing Technological Leadership: A Relational and Dynamic Framework. Politics and Governance, 13, Article 10243. https://doi.org/10.17645/pag.10243 Rayhlina, Anna. (2026). The concept of technological leadership and the region scientific and technological policy in the digital economy. Theoretical economics. 77-91. 10.52957/2221-3260-2026-1-77-91. |
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| (24 f) 'researchers at risk' refers to researchers, scholars and scientists at all stages of their careers, including doctoral candidates, postdoctoral researchers and senior academics, who are subject to serious threats to their life, liberty or research activities, or who have been forced to flee, have fled, or are displaced as a result of such threats. These risks arise primarily from situations of persecution, including persecution linked to the exercise of academic freedom, freedom of expression, or actions undertaken in support of fundamental rights and liberties. Researchers at risk may include individuals who have been granted refugee status or subsidiary protection status, as defined under applicable Union and national law, as well as those who have applied for such protection. However, a significant proportion of researchers at risk fall outside formal international protection procedures and may instead hold or seek temporary visas or residence permits, including through visiting researcher or academic positions in host institutions outside their country of origin. The identification of researchers at risk is based on an individual assessment of the existence of a credible and serious threat, requiring appropriate screening procedures. In this regard, protection or admission cannot be granted on a collective basis, but only following an individual evaluation of each case. Decisions concerning entry, residence or protection status remain within the competence of Member States. In this context, Union action is of a supportive nature, complementing Member States’ competences, notably by facilitating access to opportunities, mobility schemes and hosting arrangements for researchers at risk. |
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| (24 g) 'portfolio approach' refers to a strategic funding model whereby a funding body supports a broad range of research and development (R&D) programmes and, within each programme, multiple projects pursuing alternative technological pathways. This approach is characterised by expert-driven decision-making, typically led by programme managers with strong scientific and technical expertise, who identify and support promising areas of innovation. Given the high-risk, high-payoff nature of the R&D activities concerned, outcomes are inherently uncertain and cannot be fully predicted ex ante. Accordingly, the portfolio approach relies on diversification, whereby investments are distributed across a variety of technologies, concepts and methodologies. This allows the funding body to increase the overall probability of achieving breakthrough results, while explicitly accepting that a proportion of projects will fail. In this framework, success is assessed at the level of the portfolio rather than at the level of individual projects. The approach is therefore predicated on risk tolerance, flexibility and the capacity to reallocate resources as projects evolve. Finally, the portfolio approach typically emphasises the development of proof-of-concept prototypes rather than fully operational systems. These prototypes are subsequently transferred to other actors, including public authorities or private entities, for further development, scaling and deployment, through a process commonly referred to as “technology transition”. |
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| (24 h) 'research ethics' refers to the set of moral principles, rules and professional norms governing the planning, conduct and reporting of research, with the aim of ensuring scientific integrity and safeguarding the rights, dignity and welfare of research subjects, as well as preventing undue harm to the environment. More broadly, it involves a continuous assessment and balancing of scientific and societal benefits against potential risks, including risks of physical, psychological, social or environmental harm. It is grounded in core ethical values, notably respect for persons and their autonomy, beneficence, and justice. Respect for persons requires ensuring voluntary participation, informed consent and the protection of individuals’ rights and dignity. Beneficence entails maximising potential benefits while minimising risks and harms. |
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| (24 i) 'research integrity' refers to the adherence to fundamental principles and good research practices guiding the work of individuals, institutions and organisations, as well as their engagement with the practical, ethical and intellectual challenges inherent in research. It is based on reliability in ensuring the quality of research, reflected in the design, methodology, analysis and use of resources, and on honesty in developing, undertaking, reviewing, reporting and communicating research in a transparent, fair, full and unbiased way1l. It includes that researchers take into account the state-of-the-art in relevant fields when developing research ideas, and design, carry out, analyse and document research in a careful, transparent and well-considered manner. It also includes that researchers make proper and conscientious use of research funds, share their results in an open, honest, transparent and accurate manner, respect confidentiality of data or findings when legitimately required, and report their results and methods, including the use of external services or AI and automated tools, in a way that is compatible with the accepted norms of the discipline and facilitates verification or replication where applicable. Research integrity further includes the avoidance of research misconduct, defined as fabrication, falsification or plagiarism in proposing, performing or reviewing research, or in reporting research results, as well as the prevention of other unacceptable practices that distort the research record or damage the integrity of the research process or of researchers, including undue influence by funders, misuse of seniority, obstruction of other researchers’ work, misuse of statistics, non-disclosure of AI use, unjustified withholding of data, selective or inaccurate citation, manipulation of authorship, self-plagiarism, use of predatory publication channels, collusion in peer review, misrepresentation of research achievements, malicious accusations and failure to address integrity violations. It requires that such practices be prevented, discouraged and addressed through appropriate training, supervision, mentoring and the development of a positive and supportive research environment. | |
| 1l The European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity, Original version in English, Published in 2023, https://allea.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/European-Code-of-Conduct-Revised-Edition-2023.pdf |
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| (24 j) 'Multi-Actor Approach' means a form of collaborative research and innovation in which relevant actors who are expected to contribute to, benefit from, or implement the results are meaningfully and continuously involved throughout the research and innovation process, from the definition of needs and objectives to the development, testing, dissemination and uptake of results. This approach aims to ensure that research and innovation activities are co-created, demand-driven, relevant to real-world contexts and more likely to be applied in practice. |
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| ‘Innovation gap’ means the disparity in research and development (R&D) and deployment of new technologies between individual EU Member States; |
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| 1. In line with the general and specific objectives of the European Competitiveness Fund, the Programme shall strengthen the EU’s competitiveness, scientific technological base, and address global challenges based on excellent research and innovation. | 1. The Programme shall strengthen the Union’s scientific and technological base, social cohesion, environmental sustainability, territorial convergence and democratic resilience, and shall address global challenges through excellent research and innovation directed towards the public interest. It shall ensure the full respect and promotion of academic freedom, scientific independence, institutional autonomy and the freedom of research, including the freedom to define research questions, methodologies and dissemination of results, without undue political, economic or commercial interference. |
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| 1. In line with the general and specific objectives of the European Competitiveness Fund, the Programme shall strengthen the EU’s competitiveness, scientific technological base, and address global challenges based on excellent research and innovation. | 1. In line with the general and specific objectives of the European Competitiveness Fund, the Programme shall strengthen the EU’s scientific technological base through excellent research and innovation based on open competition, thereby supporting prosperity and competitiveness. The Programme shall also facilitate, where appropriate, clear pathways for the further development of research and innovation results towards scale-up, deployment and industrial application, while addressing global challenges. |
Dario Nardella, Stefano Bonaccini, Giorgio Gori, Cristina Maestre, Camilla Laureti, Maria Grapini, Elena Sancho Murillo, Eric Sargiacomo, André Franqueira Rodrigues
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| 1. In line with the general and specific objectives of the European Competitiveness Fund, the Programme shall strengthen the EU’s competitiveness, scientific technological base, and address global challenges based on excellent research and innovation. | 1. In line with the general and specific objectives of the European Competitiveness Fund, the Programme shall strengthen the EU’s competitiveness, scientific technological base, and address global challenges based on excellent research and innovation, with a strong emphasis on collaborative research as a core instrument to mobilise knowledge, innovation capacities and actors across the Union, ensuring the effective translation of research results into practice. |
Elena Donazzan, Nicola Procaccini, Mariateresa Vivaldini, Carlo Ciccioli, Alessandro Ciriani, Pietro Fiocchi, Lara Magoni, Francesco Torselli, Carlo Fidanza
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| 1. In line with the general and specific objectives of the European Competitiveness Fund, the Programme shall strengthen the EU’s competitiveness, scientific technological base, and address global challenges based on excellent research and innovation. | 1. In line with the general and specific objectives of the European Competitiveness Fund, the Programme shall strengthen the EU’s competitiveness, scientific technological base, and address global challenges based on excellent research and innovation, with a strong emphasis on collaborative research as a core instrument to mobilise knowledge, innovation capacities and actors across the Union, ensuring the effective translation of research results into practice. |
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| 1. In line with the general and specific objectives of the European Competitiveness Fund, the Programme shall strengthen the EU’s competitiveness, scientific technological base, and address global challenges based on excellent research and innovation. | 1. In line with the general and specific objectives of the European Competitiveness Fund, the Programme shall strengthen the EU’s competitiveness, scientific technological base, and address global challenges based on excellent research and innovation, while ensuring that excellence can emerge and can be deployed across all territories of the Union, thus contributing to economic, social and territorial cohesion and to the Union’s long-term resilience. |
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| 1. In line with the general and specific objectives of the European Competitiveness Fund, the Programme shall strengthen the EU’s competitiveness, scientific technological base, and address global challenges based on excellent research and innovation. | 1. In line with the general and specific objectives of the European Competitiveness Fund, the Programme shall strengthen the EU’s competitiveness, scientific technological base, and address global challenges based on excellent research and innovation, securing thematic and geographical balance, boosting cooperation between academia, research, business and industry, with particular focus on SMEs and innovative startups . |
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| 1. In line with the general and specific objectives of the European Competitiveness Fund, the Programme shall strengthen the EU’s competitiveness, scientific technological base, and address global challenges based on excellent research and innovation. | 1. The Programme shall strengthen the Union's global leadership in scientific knowledge and excellence, reinforce its scientific and technological base, and address all global challenges based on excellent research and innovation, delivering scientific, technological, economic and societal impact and thus contributing to strengthen Union’s long-term competitiveness, sovereignty and social well-being. |
Ivars Ijabs, Emma Wiesner, Elisabetta Gualmini, Christophe Grudler, Barry Andrews, Morten Løkkegaard, Martin Hojsík
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| 1. In line with the general and specific objectives of the European Competitiveness Fund, the Programme shall strengthen the EU’s competitiveness, scientific technological base, and address global challenges based on excellent research and innovation. | 1. The Programme shall strengthen the EU’s competitiveness, scientific technological base, and tackle global challenges by achieving the sustainable development goals, based on excellent research and innovation, in line with the general and specific objectives of the European Competitiveness Fund. |
Lina Gálvez, Elena Sancho Murillo, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Christophe Clergeau, Giorgio Gori, Sofie Eriksson, Matthias Ecke, René Repasi
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| 1. In line with the general and specific objectives of the European Competitiveness Fund, the Programme shall strengthen the EU’s competitiveness, scientific technological base, and address global challenges based on excellent research and innovation. | 1. In line with the general and specific objectives of the European Competitiveness Fund, the Programme shall strengthen the EU’s competitiveness, scientific technological base, and address global societal challenges based on excellent research and innovation. |
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| 1. In line with the general and specific objectives of the European Competitiveness Fund, the Programme shall strengthen the EU’s competitiveness, scientific technological base, and address global challenges based on excellent research and innovation. | 1. In line with the general and specific objectives of the European Competitiveness Fund, the Programme shall strengthen the EU’s competitiveness, scientific technological base, and address global societal challenges based on excellent research and innovation. |
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| 1 a. The Programme shall strengthen scientific and technological bases, through excellent research and innovation based on open competition, supporting prosperity, competitiveness and addressing global societal challenges, while ensuring diversity of national research and innovation systems, and facilitating the inclusion of newcomers. |
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| – Create high-quality knowledge, skills and attractive careers for researchers and support the realisation of the European Research Area (ERA). | – Create high-quality knowledge, skills and attractive careers for researchers and support the realisation of a strong and cohesive European Research Area (ERA), including by fostering a balanced territorial development of research and innovation capacities and thus, supporting brain circulation within the Union rather than one-way mobility. |
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| – Create high-quality knowledge, skills and attractive careers for researchers and support the realisation of the European Research Area (ERA). | – Create high-quality knowledge, scientific skills and attractive careers for researchers and support the realisation of the European Research Area (ERA) aiming at establishing the Union as a leading destination for researchers in the world. |
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| – Create high-quality knowledge, skills and attractive careers for researchers and support the realisation of the European Research Area (ERA). | – Create high-quality knowledge and foster novel and excellent scientific and technological development, promote skills and attractive career paths for researchers, and support the realisation of the European Research Area (ERA). |
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| – Create high-quality knowledge, skills and attractive careers for researchers and support the realisation of the European Research Area (ERA). | – Develop, promote and advance scientific excellence to support the creation of high-quality knowledge, skills and attractive careers for researchers and support the realisation of the European Research Area (ERA). |
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| – Create high-quality knowledge, skills and attractive careers for researchers and support the realisation of the European Research Area (ERA). | – Create high-quality knowledge as well as scientific and technological development, promote skills, and support attractive careers for researchers and the realisation of the European Research Area (ERA). |
Ivars Ijabs, Emma Wiesner, Elisabetta Gualmini, Christophe Grudler, Sophie Wilmès, Barry Andrews, Morten Løkkegaard, Michał Kobosko, Bart Groothuis, Martin Hojsík
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| – Create high-quality knowledge, skills and attractive careers for researchers and support the realisation of the European Research Area (ERA). | – Create high-quality knowledge, skills and attractive careers for researchers and doctoral candidates, and support the realisation of the European Research Area (ERA). |
Julie Rechagneux, Pascale Piera, Aleksandar Nikolic, Mélanie Disdier, Silvia Sardone, Isabella Tovaglieri
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| – Create high-quality knowledge, skills and attractive careers for researchers and support the realisation of the European Research Area (ERA). | – Create high-quality knowledge, skills and attractive careers for European researchers; |
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| – Create high-quality knowledge, skills and attractive careers for researchers and support the realisation of the European Research Area (ERA). | – Create and support high-quality knowledge, skills and attractive careers for researchers and support the realisation of the European Research Area (ERA). |
Ivars Ijabs, Emma Wiesner, Elisabetta Gualmini, Christophe Grudler, Barry Andrews, Morten Løkkegaard, Bart Groothuis, Martin Hojsík
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| – (new) To develop, promote and advance scientific excellence, while fostering innovation, in particular in strategic, emerging and disruptive technologies, including social innovation, thereby strengthening the Union’s global leadership in research and innovation. |
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| – Increase EU-wide and international collaborative research, knowledge sharing and valorisation. | – Increase EU-wide and international collaborative research, knowledge sharing and valorisation with particular attention to interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral approaches, while ensuring the effective diffusion, uptake and deployment of research and innovation projects and results across regions with different levels of R&I capacity. |
Lina Gálvez, Elena Sancho Murillo, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Christophe Clergeau, Giorgio Gori, Matthias Ecke, René Repasi
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| – Increase EU-wide and international collaborative research, knowledge sharing and valorisation. | – Increase EU-wide and international collaborative research, knowledge sharing and valorisation, to support the Union’s science diplomacy and soft power efforts, including in low- and middle-income Countries. |
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| – Increase EU-wide and international collaborative research, knowledge sharing and valorisation. | – Increase EU-wide collaborative research and innovation, knowledge sharing and valorisation, without compromising research security related risks. |
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| – Increase EU-wide and international collaborative research, knowledge sharing and valorisation. | – Increase EU-wide and international, interdisciplinary collaborative research, knowledge sharing and valorisation. |
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| – Ensure that the Union provides a safe and enabling environment for researchers, innovators and entrepreneurs, with a focus on researchers at risk of breaches of the freedom of scientific research, of scientific integrity, or of undue interference in research activities. |
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| – Promote international research and innovation cooperation. |
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| – Align EU, national and regional priorities to create a pan-European research and innovation ecosystem. | – Align EU, national and regional priorities to create a pan-European research and innovation ecosystem. |
| – Foster a merit-based progression pathway within the European Research Area by incentivizing Member States to graduate from capacity-building support toward global R&I leadership and excellence. |
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| – Align EU, national and regional priorities to create a pan-European research and innovation ecosystem. | – Align EU, national and regional priorities to create a pan-European research and innovation ecosystem, in a way that reflects territorial specificities and builds further on place-based approaches, including Smart Specialisation Strategies, in order to strengthen regional innovation ecosystems. |
Julie Rechagneux, Pascale Piera, Aleksandar Nikolic, Mélanie Disdier, Jorge Martín Frías, András Gyürk, Silvia Sardone, Isabella Tovaglieri, Raffaele Stancanelli
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| – Align EU, national and regional priorities to create a pan-European research and innovation ecosystem. | – Improve the coherence of EU, national and regional priorities, without prejudice to their competences and institutional specificities, to enhance coordination among research and innovation ecosystems. |
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| – Align EU, national and regional priorities to create a pan-European research and innovation ecosystem. | – Align EU, national and regional scientific and technological priorities to create a pan-European research and innovation ecosystem and facilitate synergies with regional innovation ecosystems. |
Lina Gálvez, Elena Sancho Murillo, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Christophe Clergeau, Giorgio Gori, Sofie Eriksson, Matthias Ecke, René Repasi
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| – Align EU, national and regional priorities to create a pan-European research and innovation ecosystem. | – Align EU, national and regional priorities, including through Smart Specialisation Strategies, to create a pan-European research and innovation ecosystem. |
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| – Strengthening the Union’s capacity to attract and retain the best talents worldwide, including through competitive funding, excellent research conditions and attractive career pathways, and enhancing research and innovation ecosystems across the Union, while supporting talent mobility |
Lina Gálvez, Elena Sancho Murillo, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Christophe Clergeau, Giorgio Gori, Sofie Eriksson, Matthias Ecke, René Repasi
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| – Help grow regional and local innovation ecosystems bottom-up by also strengthening the connections between them and maximizing the complementarity between FP10 and Cohesion funds. |
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| – Reduce national and regional disparities in research and innovation capacity, skills, and talent to strengthen innovation ecosystems. | deleted |
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| – Reduce national and regional disparities in research and innovation capacity, skills, and talent to strengthen innovation ecosystems. | – Reduce national and regional disparities in research and innovation capacity, skills, and talent to strengthen innovation ecosystems, notably by enabling regions with different levels of capacity, regional universities and smaller academic entities with less experience at the European level, SMEs and local innovators to participate effectively in the Union’s research and innovation activities in order to better absorb, deploy and scale up results that would boost European competitiveness. |
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| – Reduce national and regional disparities in research and innovation capacity, skills, and talent to strengthen innovation ecosystems. | – Reduce national and regional disparities in research and innovation capacity, skills, and talent to strengthen innovation ecosystems and promote diversity and geographical balance in participation in the Programme, fostering broad involvement of research and innovation actors from all regions of the Union, in particular from less research-intensive areas |
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| – Reduce national and regional disparities in research and innovation capacity, skills, and talent to strengthen innovation ecosystems. | – Reduce national and regional disparities in research and innovation capacity, skills, and talent to strengthen innovation ecosystems and foster the entrepreneurial mindset and skills, including in relation with the integration of the knowledge triangle across the Union. |
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| – Reduce national and regional disparities in research and innovation capacity, skills, and talent to strengthen innovation ecosystems. | – Reduce national and regional disparities in research and innovation capacity, skills, and talent to strengthen innovation ecosystems by fostering excellence-based participation from all Member States, including low R&I performing countries, in the Programme. |
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| – Reduce national and regional disparities in research and innovation capacity, skills, and talent to strengthen innovation ecosystems. | – Strengthen innovation ecosystems by fostering excellence-based participation from all Member States; leverage latent research and innovation capacity to enhance collective competitiveness and ensure the high-quality development of skills and talent. |
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| – Reduce national and regional disparities in research and innovation capacity, skills, and talent to strengthen innovation ecosystems. | – Close the innovation gap in the EU by ensuring fair and equal access to research and innovation funding for universities and research institutions across the EU, including by ensuring geographical balance in the distribution of dedicated funds. |
Ivars Ijabs, Elisabetta Gualmini, Christophe Grudler, Barry Andrews, Morten Løkkegaard, Martin Hojsík
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| – Reduce national and regional disparities in research and innovation capacity, skills, and talent to strengthen innovation ecosystems. | – Reduce national and regional disparities in research and innovation capacity, skills, and talent to strengthen innovation ecosystems, and foster excellence-based participation from all Member States. |
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| – Reduce national and regional disparities in research and innovation capacity, skills, and talent to strengthen innovation ecosystems. | – Reduce national and regional disparities in research and innovation capacity, skills, and talent to strengthen innovation ecosystems by fostering excellence-based participation in the Programme. |
Lina Gálvez, Elena Sancho Murillo, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Christophe Clergeau, Giorgio Gori, Matthias Ecke, René Repasi
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| – Reduce national and regional disparities in research and innovation capacity, skills, and talent to strengthen innovation ecosystems. | – Reduce national and regional disparities in research and innovation capacity, skills, and talent to strengthen innovation ecosystems and effectively support ‘pockets of excellence’. |
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| – Increase the scientific knowledge of all societal challenges and contribute to resilience and risk-preparedness of societies, including related to climate, biodiversity, health, and deep societal, cultural, geopolitical and technological changes, and address all societal challenges, including with a focus on climate change, environment degradation and biodiversity loss. |
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| – Support excellence in research and innovation and ensure its effective diffusion and uptake across the Union, including through regional and local innovation ecosystems and smart specialisation strategies. |
Introduces a territorial and diffusion-oriented dimension to the Programme objectives, consistent with previous parliamentary positions, without undermining excellence-based funding and also considering the value adding of the different research local dimensions.
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| – Support training and mobility of researchers, to attract and retain talent at all levels and foster attractive research careers and encourage brain circulation and counter brain drain. |
Ivars Ijabs, Emma Wiesner, Elisabetta Gualmini, Anna Stürgkh, Christophe Grudler, Sophie Wilmès, Barry Andrews, Morten Løkkegaard, Michał Kobosko, Bart Groothuis, Martin Hojsík
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| – (new) Strengthening the Union’s capacity to attract and retain the best talents worldwide and enhancing research and innovation ecosystems. |
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| – Strengthen the EU’s competitiveness in research and technology infrastructures; |
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| – Support smaller, regional and local universities in participating to Horizon Europe with specific and integrated programs at EU, national and regional level. |
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| – Improve the Union’s position in innovation, with a specific focus on strategic technologies and disruptive innovation, facilitate the diffusion of innovative solutions through standardisation activities to foster competitiveness and address key societal challenges. | – Improve the Union’s position in innovation, with a specific focus on strategic technologies and disruptive innovation, facilitate the diffusion of innovative solutions through standardisation activities to foster competitiveness and address key societal challenges, while supporting fundamental and researcher- driven approaches to maintain long term competitiveness. |
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| – Improve the Union’s position in innovation, with a specific focus on strategic technologies and disruptive innovation, facilitate the diffusion of innovative solutions through standardisation activities to foster competitiveness and address key societal challenges. | – Improve the long-term Union’s position in innovation, including with a specific focus on strategic technologies and disruptive innovation, facilitate the industrialisation and diffusion of innovative solutions, including through standardisation activities to foster long-term competitiveness and by addressing key societal challenges. |
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| – Improve the Union’s position in innovation, with a specific focus on strategic technologies and disruptive innovation, facilitate the diffusion of innovative solutions through standardisation activities to foster competitiveness and address key societal challenges. | – Improve the Union’s position in innovation, with a specific focus on strategic technologies and disruptive innovation, facilitate the diffusion of innovative solutions through standardisation activities to foster competitiveness and address key societal challenges, by supporting scientific excellence. |
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| – Improve the Union’s position in innovation, with a specific focus on strategic technologies and disruptive innovation, facilitate the diffusion of innovative solutions through standardisation activities to foster competitiveness and address key societal challenges. | – Improve the Union’s position in innovation, with a specific focus on strategic technologies and disruptive innovation, facilitate the diffusion of innovative solutions through standardisation activities. |
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| – Improve the Union’s position in innovation, with a specific focus on strategic technologies and disruptive innovation, facilitate the diffusion of innovative solutions through standardisation activities to foster competitiveness and address key societal challenges. | – Improve the Union’s position in innovation, with a specific focus on fundamental research, strategic technologies and disruptive innovation, facilitate the diffusion of innovative solutions through standardisation activities to foster competitiveness and address key societal challenges. |
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| – Improve the Union’s position in innovation, with a specific focus on strategic technologies and disruptive innovation, facilitate the diffusion of innovative solutions through standardisation activities to foster competitiveness and address key societal challenges. | – Improve the Union’s position in research and innovation, with a specific focus on emerging and strategic technologies and disruptive innovation, and facilitate the diffusion of innovative solutions through valorisation. |
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| – Improve the Union’s position in innovation, with a specific focus on strategic technologies and disruptive innovation, facilitate the diffusion of innovative solutions through standardisation activities to foster competitiveness and address key societal challenges. | – Improve the Union’s position in innovation, with a specific focus on strategic technologies and disruptive innovation, facilitate the diffusion of innovative solutions through standardisation activities to foster competitiveness. |
Lina Gálvez, Elena Sancho Murillo, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Christophe Clergeau, Giorgio Gori, Sofie Eriksson, Matthias Ecke, René Repasi
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| – Improve the Union’s position in innovation, with a specific focus on strategic technologies and disruptive innovation, facilitate the diffusion of innovative solutions through standardisation activities to foster competitiveness and address key societal challenges. | – Improve the Union’s position in innovation, with a specific focus on strategic technologies, disruptive innovation and public goods and facilitate their diffusion of innovative solutions through standardisation activities to foster competitiveness. |
Lina Gálvez, Elena Sancho Murillo, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Christophe Clergeau, Giorgio Gori, Sofie Eriksson, Matthias Ecke, René Repasi
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| – Address key societal challenges to increase the Union’s research and innovation capacity on public goods, thereby contributing to healthy, sustainable and resilient European societies. Support the generation, interoperability and responsible sharing of data and knowledge required for global public goods, including but not limited to climate and biodiversity monitoring, global health preparedness and sustainable food systems. |
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| – Foster mutually reinforcing synergies and articulation with other relevant national programmes, as well as with relevant EU instruments, notably the European Competitiveness Fund, the NRPP and the Innovation Fund, in order to facilitate the exploitation of research results from the Programme, including those of specific relevance for security and defence of the Union and its Member States. |
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| – Address key societal and environmental challenges to increase the Union’s research and innovation capacity on public goods, thereby contribution to healthy, sustainable and resilient European societies. |
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| – Strengthen competitiveness in research and technology infrastructures. |
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| – De-risk and mobilise more private research and innovation financing, particularly for supporting deep tech and the scaling up of innovative startups and SMEs. | – De-risk and mobilise more private research and innovation financing, particularly for supporting deep tech and the scaling up of innovative startups and SMEs, including by strengthening wider regional innovation ecosystems and improving synergies with Cohesion Policy instruments in order to boost private investment for R&I beyond already well-known leading innovation hubs. |
Elena Donazzan, Nicola Procaccini, Mariateresa Vivaldini, Carlo Ciccioli, Alessandro Ciriani, Pietro Fiocchi, Lara Magoni, Francesco Torselli, Anna Zalewska
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| – De-risk and mobilise more private research and innovation financing, particularly for supporting deep tech and the scaling up of innovative startups and SMEs. | – De-risk and mobilise more private research and innovation financing, particularly for supporting deep tech and the scaling up of innovative startups and SMEs and Small Mid Caps which are key actors in research and innovation processes and should, therefore, be enabled to take on leadership roles in EU funded R&I activities. |
Lina Gálvez, Elena Sancho Murillo, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Christophe Clergeau, Giorgio Gori, Sofie Eriksson, Matthias Ecke, René Repasi
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| – De-risk and mobilise more private research and innovation financing, particularly for supporting deep tech and the scaling up of innovative startups and SMEs. | – De-risk, incentivise and mobilise more private research and innovation financing, particularly for supporting deep tech and the scaling up of innovative startups and SMEs, especially in areas of market failure and unmet societal needs. |
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| – De-risk and mobilise more private research and innovation financing, particularly for supporting deep tech and the scaling up of innovative startups and SMEs. | – De-risk and mobilise more private research and innovation financing, particularly for supporting deep tech and the scaling up of innovative startups and SMEs and Small Mid Caps. |
Ivars Ijabs, Emma Wiesner, Elisabetta Gualmini, Anna Stürgkh, Christophe Grudler, Sophie Wilmès, Barry Andrews, Morten Løkkegaard, Michał Kobosko, Martin Hojsík
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| – (new) Ensure the effective promotion and integration of cooperation with third countries and international organisations and initiatives based on mutual benefits, the Union interests, international commitments and, where appropriate, reciprocity. |
Lina Gálvez, Elena Sancho Murillo, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Christophe Clergeau, Giorgio Gori, Matthias Ecke, René Repasi
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| – Advance international research and innovation collaborations to promote peace, multilateralism and strengthen the Union’s soft power, by delivering mutual benefits with partner countries, with a particular focus on low- and middle-income countries. |
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| – Contribute to increasing public and private investment in research and innovation in Member States, thereby contributing to reach an overall expenditure of at least 3% of Union Gross Domestic Product (‘GDP’) in research and development. | – Contribute to increasing public and private investment in research and innovation in Member States, thereby contributing to reach an overall expenditure of at least 3% of Union Gross Domestic Product (‘GDP’) in research and development with flexibility to adjust priorities based on emerging societal and technological challenges, while ensuring that investment efforts also support capacity-building and convergence in less-performing regions in order to foster performant R&I ecosystems across all the Union. |
Julie Rechagneux, Pascale Piera, Aleksandar Nikolic, Mélanie Disdier, Jorge Martín Frías, András Gyürk
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| – Contribute to increasing public and private investment in research and innovation in Member States, thereby contributing to reach an overall expenditure of at least 3% of Union Gross Domestic Product (‘GDP’) in research and development. | – Contribute to increasing public and private investment in research and innovation in Member States, with a view to catching up in areas where the Union lags behind and restoring European techno-scientific leadership, as assessed through a set of qualitative and performance-based indicators, such as scientific output and impact, patenting activity, research excellence, technology transfer, scale-up capacity and time-to-market. |
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| – Contribute to increasing public and private investment in research and innovation in Member States, thereby contributing to reach an overall expenditure of at least 3% of Union Gross Domestic Product (‘GDP’) in research and development. | – Contribute to increasing public and private investment in research and innovation in Member States and promote public-private partnerships, thereby contributing to reach an overall expenditure of at least 3% of Union Gross Domestic Product (‘GDP’) in research and development. |
| - Reduce the administrative burden and facilitate access to funding. |
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| – Contribute to increasing public and private investment in research and innovation in Member States, thereby contributing to reach an overall expenditure of at least 3% of Union Gross Domestic Product (‘GDP’) in research and development. | – Contribute to increasing public and private investment in research and innovation in Member States and catalyse national public R&D spending towards an overall investment of at least 3% of Union Gross Domestic Product (‘GDP’) in research and development by the end of the Programme. |
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| – Contribute to increasing public and private investment in research and innovation in Member States, thereby contributing to reach an overall expenditure of at least 3% of Union Gross Domestic Product (‘GDP’) in research and development. | – Contribute to increasing public and private investment in research and innovation in Member States and promote public-private partnerships, thereby contributing to reach an overall expenditure of at least 3% of Union Gross Domestic Product (‘GDP’) in research and development. |
Elena Donazzan, Nicola Procaccini, Mariateresa Vivaldini, Carlo Ciccioli, Alessandro Ciriani, Pietro Fiocchi, Lara Magoni, Francesco Torselli, Anna Zalewska
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| – Contribute to increasing public and private investment in research and innovation in Member States, thereby contributing to reach an overall expenditure of at least 3% of Union Gross Domestic Product (‘GDP’) in research and development. | – Contribute to increasing public and private investment in research and innovation in Member States and promote public-private partnerships, thereby contributing to reach an overall expenditure of at least 3% of Union Gross Domestic Product (‘GDP’) in research and development. |
Elena Donazzan, Nicola Procaccini, Mariateresa Vivaldini, Carlo Ciccioli, Alessandro Ciriani, Pietro Fiocchi, Lara Magoni, Francesco Torselli, Carlo Fidanza, Anna Zalewska
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| – - Strengthen collaborative and applied research in key economic sectors, including agriculture, food, bioeconomy and rural value chains, with a view to accelerating the uptake of innovation, improving productivity, resilience and sustainability. | |
| – Support the development of skills, competences and lifelong learning pathways in economic sectors undergoing clean and digital transitions, including through research-driven training, demonstration activities and knowledge transfer mechanisms. | |
| – Enhance the capacity of actors across all sectors to participate in research and innovation activities, ensuring balanced access across economic areas and territories. | |
| - Reduce the administrative burden on universities and public research Institutes making easier the access to the HE funding program. | |
| - Support a seamless investment journey from fundamental research to market deployment, by ensuring coherence and complementarity with other Union initiatives, in particular with the European Competitiveness Fund and the National and Regional Partnership Plans, to facilitate the effective translation of research and innovation results into industrial and societal uptake. |
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| – -promote the rapid deployment and market uptake of innovative solutions, particularly in the fields of digital transformations and energy to enhance the Union`s strategic autonomy and resilience | |
| - strengthen cooperation between academia, industry and public authorities to foster integrated innovation ecosystems and accelerate the commercialisation of research results. |
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| – Optimise the Programme's delivery with a view to strengthening and increasing the impact and attractiveness of the ERA, to foster excellence-based participation from all Member States, including low R&I performing countries, in the Programme and to facilitate collaborative links in European R&I. |
Dario Nardella, Stefano Bonaccini, Giorgio Gori, Cristina Maestre, Camilla Laureti, Maria Grapini, Elena Sancho Murillo, Eric Sargiacomo, André Franqueira Rodrigues
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| – Strengthen collaborative and applied research in key economic sectors, including agriculture, food, bioeconomy and rural value chains, with a view to accelerating the uptake of innovation, improving productivity, resilience and sustainability. |
Strengthening the Union's long-term competitiveness requires not only excellence in research and innovation, but also the capacity to translate scientific knowledge into concrete economic, social and territorial outcomes. A Programme focused solely on research excellence risks failing to address the structural barriers that prevent many actors — in particular SMEs and underrepresented regions — from fully participating in and benefiting from research and innovation activities.
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| – Strengthen support for early-stage, low technology readiness level (TRL) research across all Member States, with a view to fostering scientific excellence and reducing disparities in research and innovation performance. |
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| – Develop, promote and advance scientific and technological excellence to support the creation and diffusion of high-quality knowledge, skills, technologies and solutions. |
Scientific and technological excellence are a key for developing globally competitive solutions and addressing societal challenges.
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| – Strengthen the scientific and technological bases of the European Union, as well as its partners, by fostering and advancing scientific excellence’. |
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| – Support high-quality employment, fair working conditions and skills development across the research and innovation ecosystem. |
Dario Nardella, Stefano Bonaccini, Giorgio Gori, Cristina Maestre, Camilla Laureti, Maria Grapini, Elena Sancho Murillo, Eric Sargiacomo, André Franqueira Rodrigues
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| – Support the development of skills, competences and lifelong learning pathways in sectors undergoing clean and digital transitions, through targeted research-driven training, demonstration activities and knowledge transfer mechanisms. |
Strengthening the Union's long-term competitiveness requires not only excellence in research and innovation, but also the capacity to translate scientific knowledge into concrete economic, social and territorial outcomes. A Programme focused solely on research excellence risks failing to address the structural barriers that prevent many actors — in particular SMEs and underrepresented regions — from fully participating in and benefiting from research and innovation activities.
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| – Contribute to the strengthening of public services, social protection systems and universal access to the benefits of research and innovation. |
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| – Enable the circulation of talent within Europe and from third countries. |
Dario Nardella, Stefano Bonaccini, Giorgio Gori, Cristina Maestre, Camilla Laureti, Maria Grapini, Elena Sancho Murillo, Eric Sargiacomo, André Franqueira Rodrigues
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| – Enhance the capacity of actors across all sectors to participate in research and innovation activities, ensuring balanced access across economic areas and territories. |
Strengthening the Union's long-term competitiveness requires not only excellence in research and innovation, but also the capacity to translate scientific knowledge into concrete economic, social and territorial outcomes. A Programme focused solely on research excellence risks failing to address the structural barriers that prevent many actors — in particular SMEs and underrepresented regions — from fully participating in and benefiting from research and innovation activities.
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| – Reduce inequalities, including gender, social, territorial and digital inequalities, in access to research careers, infrastructures and innovation outcomes. |
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| – Safeguard and promote academic freedom, institutional autonomy and scientific integrity, including by protecting researchers from political pressure, censorship, economic dependency or conflicts of interest that may undermine the independence of research. |
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| – Promote the replacement, reduction and refinement of animal use in research (the ‘3Rs’ principle), with the objective of progressively phasing out animal testing where scientifically possible, and prioritising the development, validation and uptake of alternative methods that ensure a high level of protection of human health and the environment. |
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| – Ensure that the Programme remains primarily civilian in nature, with research priorities guided by societal needs and the common good. |
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| 2 a. The specific objectives of the Specific Programme referred to in point (b) of Article 1(2) are to strengthen the competitiveness, efficiency and resilience of the European defence technological and industrial base by supporting collaborative research and development actions, fostering innovation and technological leadership. |
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| The Commission shall, in the framework of the Programme and in line with the Union framework for science diplomacy, support the attraction and circulation throughout the Union of research talent from countries where public research and innovation budgets are being significantly reduced, in particular in economically and societally viable scientific sectors. |
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| 1. For the purposes of the Specific Programme referred to in Article 1(2), the Programme shall be structured in parts as follows, which contribute to the general and specific objectives set out in Article 3 and the policy windows of Regulation (EU) XXX [European Competitiveness Fund]: | 1. For the purposes of the Specific Programme referred to in Article 1(2), the Programme shall be structured in parts as follows, which contribute to the general and specific objectives set out in Article 3: |
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| 1. For the purposes of the Specific Programme referred to in Article 1(2), the Programme shall be structured in parts as follows, which contribute to the general and specific objectives set out in Article 3 and the policy windows of Regulation (EU) XXX [European Competitiveness Fund]: | 1. For the purposes of the Specific Programme referred to in Article 1(2) point (a), the Programme shall be structured in parts as follows, which contribute to the general and specific objectives set out in Article 3 : |
Lina Gálvez, Elena Sancho Murillo, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Christophe Clergeau, Giorgio Gori, Matthias Ecke, René Repasi
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| (a) Part I ‘Excellent Science’, with the following components, in particular: | (a) Pillar I ‘Excellent Science’, with the following components: |
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| (a) Part I ‘Excellent Science’, with the following components, in particular: | (a) Pillar I ‘Excellent Science’, with the following components: |
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| (a) Part I ‘Excellent Science’, with the following components, in particular: | (a) Part I ‘Excellent Science’, with the following components : |
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| (b) Part II ‘Competitiveness and Society’, with the following components, in particular: | (b) Pillar II ‘Competitiveness and Society’, with the following components, taking into account that SSH play an important role across all areas: |
Lina Gálvez, Elena Sancho Murillo, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Christophe Clergeau, Giorgio Gori, Matthias Ecke, René Repasi
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| (b) Part II ‘Competitiveness and Society’, with the following components, in particular: | (b) Pillar II ‘Competitiveness and Society’, with the following components: |
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| i) ‘Competitiveness’, including research and innovation activities in support of policies under the European Competitiveness Fund, such as: | deleted |
| (1) collaborative research and innovation activities under Chapter IV ‘Clean Transition and Industrial Decarbonisation’ of the European Competitiveness Fund; | |
| (2) collaborative research and innovation activities under Chapter V ‘Health, Biotech, Agriculture and Bioeconomy’ of the European Competitiveness Fund; | |
| (3) collaborative research and innovation activities under Chapter VI ‘Digital Leadership’ of the European Competitiveness Fund; | |
| (4) collaborative research and innovation activities under Chapter VII ‘Resilience and Security, Defence Industry and Space’ of the European Competitiveness Fund. |
Lina Gálvez, Elena Sancho Murillo, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Christophe Clergeau, Matthias Ecke, René Repasi
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| i) ‘Competitiveness’, including research and innovation activities in support of policies under the European Competitiveness Fund, such as: | i) ‘Competitiveness’: |
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| i) ‘Competitiveness’, including research and innovation activities in support of policies under the European Competitiveness Fund, such as: | i) ‘Competitiveness’, including research and innovation activities in support of the objectives and in synergy with specific activities underof the policy windows under the European Competitiveness Fund: |
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| i) ‘Competitiveness’, including research and innovation activities in support of policies under the European Competitiveness Fund, such as: | i) ‘Competitiveness’, including research and innovation activities and technology infrastructures in support of policies under the European Competitiveness Fund, such as: |
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| i) ‘Competitiveness’, including research and innovation activities in support of policies under the European Competitiveness Fund, such as: | i) Competitiveness’, including research and innovation activities related to the objectives and specific activities of the policy windows under the European Competitiveness Fund |
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| i) ‘Competitiveness’, including research and innovation activities in support of policies under the European Competitiveness Fund, such as: | i) ‘Competitiveness’, with the following research and innovation activities : |
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| i) ‘Competitiveness’, including research and innovation activities in support of policies under the European Competitiveness Fund, such as: | i) ‘Competitiveness’, including research and innovation activities in support of policies under the European Competitiveness Fund: |
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| (1) collaborative research and innovation activities under Chapter IV ‘Clean Transition and Industrial Decarbonisation’ of the European Competitiveness Fund; | (1) collaborative research and innovation activities under Chapter IV ‘Clean Transition and Industrial Decarbonisation’ of the European Competitiveness Fund, in compliance with the principle of technological neutrality and targeting technologies such as those defined as net-zero technologies under Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1735, strategic technologies under Regulation (EU) 2024/795, and transitional solutions as defined in Article 10(2) of Regulation (EU) 2020/852; |
Elena Donazzan, Nicola Procaccini, Mariateresa Vivaldini, Carlo Ciccioli, Alessandro Ciriani, Pietro Fiocchi, Lara Magoni, Francesco Torselli
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| (1) collaborative research and innovation activities under Chapter IV ‘Clean Transition and Industrial Decarbonisation’ of the European Competitiveness Fund; | (1) collaborative research and innovation activities under Chapter IV ‘Clean Transition and Industrial Decarbonisation’ of the European Competitiveness Fund prioritizing, among others, research and innovation projects targeting all technologies defined as net-zero in Regulation (EU) 2024/1735 (Net-Zero Industry Act); |
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| (1) collaborative research and innovation activities under Chapter IV ‘Clean Transition and Industrial Decarbonisation’ of the European Competitiveness Fund; | (1) Green Transition and Sustainable Industrial Decarbonisation; |
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| (1) collaborative research and innovation activities under Chapter IV ‘Clean Transition and Industrial Decarbonisation’ of the European Competitiveness Fund; | (1) Competitiveness Window I ‘Clean Transition and Industrial Decarbonisation’ |
Lina Gálvez, Elena Sancho Murillo, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Christophe Clergeau, Matthias Ecke, René Repasi, Alicia Homs Ginel
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| (1) collaborative research and innovation activities under Chapter IV ‘Clean Transition and Industrial Decarbonisation’ of the European Competitiveness Fund; | (1) Window I ‘Clean Transition and Industrial Decarbonisation’, including the New European Bauhaus and the Housing Innovation Facility. |
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| (1) collaborative research and innovation activities under Chapter IV ‘Clean Transition and Industrial Decarbonisation’ of the European Competitiveness Fund; | (1) collaborative research and innovation activities related to ‘Clean, Decarbonised, Circular and Resource-efficient Industries for Society' |
Lina Gálvez, Elena Sancho Murillo, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Christophe Clergeau, Matthias Ecke, René Repasi
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| (2) collaborative research and innovation activities under Chapter V ‘Health, Biotech, Agriculture and Bioeconomy’ of the European Competitiveness Fund; | (2) Window II A 'Health and Global health' |
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| (2) collaborative research and innovation activities under Chapter V ‘Health, Biotech, Agriculture and Bioeconomy’ of the European Competitiveness Fund; | (2) Bioeconomy, natural resources and agriculture; |
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| (2) collaborative research and innovation activities under Chapter V ‘Health, Biotech, Agriculture and Bioeconomy’ of the European Competitiveness Fund; | (2) Competitiveness Window II ‘Health, Biotech, Agriculture and Bioeconomy’ |
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| (2) collaborative research and innovation activities under Chapter V ‘Health, Biotech, Agriculture and Bioeconomy’ of the European Competitiveness Fund; | (2) collaborative research and innovation activities under Chapter V ‘Health, Biotech, Agriculture, Food Production and Food Security and Bioeconomy’ of the European Competitiveness Fund; |
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| (2) collaborative research and innovation activities under Chapter V ‘Health, Biotech, Agriculture and Bioeconomy’ of the European Competitiveness Fund; | (2) collaborative research and innovation activities under Chapter V ‘Health, Biotech, Agriculture, Food Production, Food Security and Bioeconomy’ of the European Competitiveness Fund; |
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| (2) collaborative research and innovation activities under Chapter V ‘Health, Biotech, Agriculture and Bioeconomy’ of the European Competitiveness Fund; | (2) collaborative research and innovation activities under Chapter V ‘Health, Biotech, Agriculture, Food Security and Bioeconomy’ of the European Competitiveness Fund; |
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| (2) collaborative research and innovation activities under Chapter V ‘Health, Biotech, Agriculture and Bioeconomy’ of the European Competitiveness Fund; | (2) Competitiveness Window II "Agriculture, Biotechnology, Health and Sustainable Prosperity" |
Elena Donazzan, Nicola Procaccini, Mariateresa Vivaldini, Carlo Ciccioli, Alessandro Ciriani, Pietro Fiocchi, Lara Magoni, Francesco Torselli, Carlo Fidanza
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| (2) collaborative research and innovation activities under Chapter V ‘Health, Biotech, Agriculture and Bioeconomy’ of the European Competitiveness Fund; | (2) collaborative research and innovation activities under Chapter V ‘Health, Biotech, Agriculture, Food, Blue Economy and Bioeconomy’ of the European Competitiveness Fund; |
Julie Rechagneux, Pascale Piera, Aleksandar Nikolic, Mélanie Disdier, Jorge Martín Frías, Silvia Sardone, Isabella Tovaglieri, Raffaele Stancanelli
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| (2) collaborative research and innovation activities under Chapter V ‘Health, Biotech, Agriculture and Bioeconomy’ of the European Competitiveness Fund; | (2) collaborative research and innovation activities under Chapter V ‘Health, Biotech, Agricultural Science, Food, and Bioeconomy’ of the European Competitiveness Fund; |
Dario Nardella, Stefano Bonaccini, Giorgio Gori, Cristina Maestre, Camilla Laureti, Maria Grapini, Elena Sancho Murillo, Eric Sargiacomo, André Franqueira Rodrigues
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| (2) collaborative research and innovation activities under Chapter V ‘Health, Biotech, Agriculture and Bioeconomy’ of the European Competitiveness Fund; | (2) collaborative research and innovation activities under Chapter V ‘Health, Agriculture and Food, Biotech and Bioeconomy’ of the European Competitiveness Fund; |
This amendment adds “food” to Health, Agriculture, Biotech and Bioeconomy in order to fully reflect the strategic importance of agri-food value chains within the Programme. This ensures that the entire continuum from primary production to food processing, distribution and consumption is adequately covered. The amendment allows the Programme to better address key Union priorities such as food security, resilient supply chains, and the promotion of healthy and sustainable diets, while ensuring coherence between research, innovation and real economic and societal needs.
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| (2) collaborative research and innovation activities under Chapter V ‘Health, Biotech, Agriculture and Bioeconomy’ of the European Competitiveness Fund; | (2) collaborative research and innovation activities under Chapter V ‘Health, Biotech, Agriculture, Food and Bioeconomy’ of the European Competitiveness Fund; |
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| (2) collaborative research and innovation activities under Chapter V ‘Health, Biotech, Agriculture and Bioeconomy’ of the European Competitiveness Fund; | (2) collaborative research and innovation activities related to ‘Health, Food, Biotech, Agriculture and Bioeconomy’; |
Katri Kulmuni, Asger Christensen, Benoit Cassart, Jérémy Decerle, Elsi Katainen, Christine Singer, Emma Wiesner, Christophe Grudler, Charles Goerens
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| (2) collaborative research and innovation activities under Chapter V ‘Health, Biotech, Agriculture and Bioeconomy’ of the European Competitiveness Fund; | (2) collaborative research & innovation activities under Chapter V ‘Health, Biotech, Agriculture and Bioeconomy’ of the European Competitiveness Fund; |
Horizon funding is very important for agriculture and the bioeconomy that are industries where the EU has natural advantages. Horizon funding helps these key and important sectors to develop, retain their competitive advantage and meet the challenges of our time, ensuring food security and replacing fossil-based products through bioeconomy sector solutions. Commission proposal should be supported.
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| (2 a) The collaborative research and innovation activities under Chapter V ‘Health, Biotech, Agriculture, Food Production, Food Security and Bioeconomy’ shall inter alia include research focusing on increasing agricultural productivity, fisheries, reducing production costs, the agri-food chain, adapting to climate and geopolitical risks, digitalisation of farms and strengthening the Union’s food security; |
Lina Gálvez, Elena Sancho Murillo, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Christophe Clergeau, Giorgio Gori, Matthias Ecke, René Repasi
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| (2 a) Window II B 'Biotechnologies, Bioeconomy, Agriculture, Food Security and Blue Economy' |
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| (2 a) Health; |
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| (3) collaborative research and innovation activities under Chapter VI ‘Digital Leadership’ of the European Competitiveness Fund; | (3) Digital Leadership; |
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| (3) collaborative research and innovation activities under Chapter VI ‘Digital Leadership’ of the European Competitiveness Fund; | (3) Competitiveness Window III ‘Digital Leadership’ |
Lina Gálvez, Elena Sancho Murillo, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Christophe Clergeau, Matthias Ecke, René Repasi
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| (3) collaborative research and innovation activities under Chapter VI ‘Digital Leadership’ of the European Competitiveness Fund; | (3) Window III ‘Digital Leadership and technological capabilities' |
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| (3) collaborative research and innovation activities under Chapter VI ‘Digital Leadership’ of the European Competitiveness Fund; | (3) collaborative research and innovation activities related to ‘Digital Leadership’; |
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| (4) collaborative research and innovation activities under Chapter VII ‘Resilience and Security, Defence Industry and Space’ of the European Competitiveness Fund. | (4) Resilience, Security and Space. |
Lina Gálvez, Elena Sancho Murillo, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Christophe Clergeau, Matthias Ecke, René Repasi
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| (4) collaborative research and innovation activities under Chapter VII ‘Resilience and Security, Defence Industry and Space’ of the European Competitiveness Fund. | (4) Window IV ‘Space, Critical Raw Materials, Peace and Security’ |
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| (4) collaborative research and innovation activities under Chapter VII ‘Resilience and Security, Defence Industry and Space’ of the European Competitiveness Fund. | (4) Competitiveness Window IV ‘Resilience and Security, Defence Industry and Space’ |
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| (4) collaborative research and innovation activities under Chapter VII ‘Resilience and Security, Defence Industry and Space’ of the European Competitiveness Fund. | (4) collaborative research and innovation activities related to ‘Resilient, Safe and Secure Society, and Space’ with an exclusive focus on activities that can demonstrate a tangible civilian relevance. |
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| (4 a) Global societal challenges; |
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| (4 b) EU Missions |
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| (4 c) the New European Bauhaus Facility |
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| i a) Competitiveness Window II "Biotechnology, Agriculture, Food Security, Health, and Sustainable Prosperity" |
(See similar text suggestion in amendment regarding Article 6, paragraph 2, point b - point 1 a (new))
In addition to the text proposed in the draft report by the rapporteur, this amendment adds 'Agriculture, Food Security' to the title of Competitiveness Window II.
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| ii) ‘Society’, including research and innovation activities, such as: | deleted |
| (1) global societal challenges; | |
| (2) EU Missions; | |
| (3) the New European Bauhaus Facility; |
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| ii) ‘Society’, including research and innovation activities, such as: | ii) ‘Society’, including research and innovation activities, with the following components : |
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| (1) global societal challenges; | (1) addressing global societal challenges through excellent quantitative and qualitative social sciences; |
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| (1) global societal challenges; | (1) global societal challenges including intergenerational and youth-specific dimensions; |
Lina Gálvez, Elena Sancho Murillo, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Christophe Clergeau, Giorgio Gori, Matthias Ecke, René Repasi, Alicia Homs Ginel
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| (1) global societal challenges; | (1) global societal challenges, including a Housing Innovation facility; |
Lina Gálvez, Elena Sancho Murillo, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Christophe Clergeau, Giorgio Gori, Matthias Ecke, René Repasi
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| (3) the New European Bauhaus Facility; | deleted |
Julie Rechagneux, Pascale Piera, Aleksandar Nikolic, Mélanie Disdier, Jorge Martín Frías, Silvia Sardone, Isabella Tovaglieri, Raffaele Stancanelli
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| (3 a) (1) Heritage, classical studies, digital humanities and protection of endangered cultural heritage |
Lina Gálvez, Elena Sancho Murillo, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Christophe Clergeau, Giorgio Gori, Matthias Ecke, René Repasi
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| (c) Part III ‘Innovation’, with the following components, in particular: | (c) Pillar III ‘Innovation’, with the following components, in particular: |
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| (c) Part III ‘Innovation’, with the following components, in particular: | (c) Pillar III ‘Innovation’, with the following components: |
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| (c) Part III ‘Innovation’, with the following components, in particular: | (c) Part III ‘Innovation’, with the following components : |
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| (i a) intermediary structures supporting innovation, including the inclusion of leading scientists and practitioners in advisory and territorialised bodies, such as the Emerging Technology Observatory, cooperation with the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs), Regional Innovation Valleys, European Digital Innovation Hubs; |
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| (ii) Innovation ecosystems including activities to foster the integration of the knowledge triangle – higher education, research and innovation, and business – across the Union. | (ii) Innovation ecosystems including activities to foster the integration of the knowledge triangle – higher education, research and innovation, and business – across the Union, including support for emerging and less-resourced innovation ecosystems, first-time applicants, regional universities, SMEs and local innovators. |
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| (ii) Innovation ecosystems including activities to foster the integration of the knowledge triangle – higher education, research and innovation, and business – across the Union. | (ii) Innovation ecosystems including activities to foster the integration of the knowledge triangle – higher education, research and innovation, and business – across the Union, including within the scope of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology. |
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| (ii) Innovation ecosystems including activities to foster the integration of the knowledge triangle – higher education, research and innovation, and business – across the Union. | (ii) Innovation ecosystems including the activities of Knowledge and Innovation Communities and other activities to foster the integration of the knowledge triangle – higher education, research and innovation, and business – across the Union. |
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| (ii) Innovation ecosystems including activities to foster the integration of the knowledge triangle – higher education, research and innovation, and business – across the Union. | (ii) Innovation ecosystems including activities of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT). |
The EIT and its KICs serve as the primary instrument for fostering the effective integration of the knowledge triangle (education, research, and innovation) within the Union. The lack of explicit reference to the EIT and the KICs in the Commission proposal creates unnecessary uncertainty regarding their future role and status. Retaining only the generic reference to the 'knowledge triangle' alone leaves the budgetary aspects vague and unclarified. For this reason EIT shall be explicitly included when reference is made to the knowledge triangle.
Lina Gálvez, Elena Sancho Murillo, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Christophe Clergeau, Giorgio Gori, Matthias Ecke, René Repasi
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| (d) Part IV ‘European Research Area’, with the following components, in particular: | (d) Pillar IV ‘European Research Area’, with the following components, in particular: |
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| (d) Part IV ‘European Research Area’, with the following components, in particular: | (d) Pillar IV ‘European Research Area’, with the following components: |
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| (d) Part IV ‘European Research Area’, with the following components, in particular: | (d) Part IV ‘European Research Area’, with the following components : |
Lina Gálvez, Elena Sancho Murillo, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Christophe Clergeau, Giorgio Gori, Matthias Ecke, René Repasi
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| (i) reforming and enhancing the European R&I system; | (i) reforming and enhancing the European R&I system with the involvement of local and regional authorities and the application of a Multilevel Governance approach; |
Aura Salla, Wouter Beke, Willemien Koning, Angelika Winzig, Tomas Tobé, Jörgen Warborn, Andrea Wechsler
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| (iii) widening participation and spreading excellence. | deleted |
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| (iii) widening participation and spreading excellence. | (iii) widening participation and spreading excellence, while ensuring that persistent territorial disparities in research and innovation capacity at regional level are addressed. |
Lina Gálvez, Elena Sancho Murillo, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Christophe Clergeau, Giorgio Gori, Matthias Ecke, René Repasi
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| (iii) widening participation and spreading excellence. | (iii) widening participation and spreading excellence at all levels of governance. |
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| (a) ensure a multidisciplinary approach, where appropriate, and provide for the integration of social sciences and humanities (SSH) across all components under the Programme, including specific calls for proposals on SSH related topics. | (a) ensure, where relevant, multidisciplinary and multi-actor approach, and provide for the integration of social sciences and humanities (SSH) across all components under the Programme, including specific calls for proposals on SSH related topics, with a special focus on: |
| (1) quantitative social sciences based on robust datasets, transparent methodologies, replicable results and falsifiable hypotheses, addressing global societal challenges in areas such as environmental sustainability, public health, demographic change and technological transitions; | |
| (2) research on cultural heritage through classical studies and digital humanities, including the preservation, interpretation and dissemination of Europe’s intellectual and cultural legacy using advanced analytical and digital tools. |
Lina Gálvez, Elena Sancho Murillo, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Christophe Clergeau, Giorgio Gori, Sofie Eriksson, Matthias Ecke, René Repasi
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| (a) ensure a multidisciplinary approach, where appropriate, and provide for the integration of social sciences and humanities (SSH) across all components under the Programme, including specific calls for proposals on SSH related topics. | (a) Promote and ensure a multidisciplinary and human centric approach, as essential drivers of major scientific progress, fostering the integration of diverse scientific perspectives to address complex scientific, societal, cultural and policy challenges and provide for the systematic and comprehensive integration of social sciences and humanities (SSH) across all components under the Programme, including specific calls for proposals on SSH related topics. |
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| (a) ensure a multidisciplinary approach, where appropriate, and provide for the integration of social sciences and humanities (SSH) across all components under the Programme, including specific calls for proposals on SSH related topics. | (a) ensure a multidisciplinary approach and provide for the full integration of social sciences and humanities (SSH) across all components under the Programme, including via specific calls for proposals on SSH related topics for disciplines whose methodologies require stand-alone actions, and along all the phases of implementation of the Programme, including evaluation of proposals and monitoring of the Programme. |
Dario Nardella, Stefano Bonaccini, Giorgio Gori, Cristina Maestre, Camilla Laureti, Maria Grapini, Elena Sancho Murillo, Eric Sargiacomo, André Franqueira Rodrigues
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| (a) ensure a multidisciplinary approach, where appropriate, and provide for the integration of social sciences and humanities (SSH) across all components under the Programme, including specific calls for proposals on SSH related topics. | (a) ensure a multidisciplinary and multi-actor approach, where appropriate, and provide for the integration of social sciences and humanities (SSH) across all components under the Programme, including specific calls for proposals on SSH related topics, while promoting multi-actor and practice-oriented research approaches that combine scientific excellence with operational, economic and territorial knowledge. |
Elena Donazzan, Nicola Procaccini, Mariateresa Vivaldini, Carlo Ciccioli, Alessandro Ciriani, Pietro Fiocchi, Lara Magoni, Francesco Torselli, Carlo Fidanza
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| (a) ensure a multidisciplinary approach, where appropriate, and provide for the integration of social sciences and humanities (SSH) across all components under the Programme, including specific calls for proposals on SSH related topics. | (a) ensure a multidisciplinary approach, where appropriate, and provide for the integration of social sciences and humanities (SSH) across all components under the Programme, including specific calls for proposals on SSH related topics, while promoting multi-actor and practice- oriented research approaches that combine scientific excellence with operational, economic and territorial knowledge |
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| (a) ensure a multidisciplinary approach, where appropriate, and provide for the integration of social sciences and humanities (SSH) across all components under the Programme, including specific calls for proposals on SSH related topics. | (a) ensure a multidisciplinary approach, where appropriate, and provide for the integration of social sciences and humanities (SSH) across all components under the Programme, including specific calls for proposals on SSH related topics while also promoting interdisciplinary cooperation with technological, industrial and digital sectors. |
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| (a) ensure a multidisciplinary approach, where appropriate, and provide for the integration of social sciences and humanities (SSH) across all components under the Programme, including specific calls for proposals on SSH related topics. | (a) ensure a multidisciplinary approach, and provide the systematic integration of the social sciences and humanities (SSH) across the Programme, including in the design, implementation and evaluation of activities, so that technological development is aligned with social needs, democratic values and fundamental rights. |
Lina Gálvez, Elena Sancho Murillo, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Christophe Clergeau, Giorgio Gori, Sofie Eriksson, Matthias Ecke, René Repasi
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| (a) ensure a multidisciplinary approach, where appropriate, and provide for the integration of social sciences and humanities (SSH) across all components under the Programme, including specific calls for proposals on SSH related topics. | (a) ensure a multidisciplinary approach, where appropriate, and provide for the integration of social sciences and humanities and the arts (SSHA) perspective across all components under the Programme, including specific calls for proposals on SSH related topics. |
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| (a) ensure a multidisciplinary approach, where appropriate, and provide for the integration of social sciences and humanities (SSH) across all components under the Programme, including specific calls for proposals on SSH related topics. | (a) promote and ensure a multidisciplinary approach, where appropriate and possible, and provide for the integration of social sciences and humanities (SSH) across all components under the Programme, including specific calls for proposals on SSH related topics. |
Ivars Ijabs, Elisabetta Gualmini, Christophe Grudler, Barry Andrews, Morten Løkkegaard, Brigitte van den Berg, Martin Hojsík
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| (a) ensure a multidisciplinary approach, where appropriate, and provide for the integration of social sciences and humanities (SSH) across all components under the Programme, including specific calls for proposals on SSH related topics. | (a) ensure a collaborative multidisciplinary approach, where appropriate, and provide for the integration of social sciences, arts and humanities (SSAH) across all components under the Programme, including specific calls for proposals on SSAH related topics. |
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| (a a) ensure that activities supported under the Programme demonstrate a clear societal, environmental or public-interest contribution, and that Union funding does not support business models based on social dumping, precarious work, environmental harm or undue privatisation of essential public goods. |
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| (a b) contribute to territorial cohesion and upward convergence, including through widening participation and stronger support for regions and institutions with structurally lower research and innovation capacities. |
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| (b) advance scientific knowledge and contribute to the creation of informed, effective, and responsive public policies across the Union and beyond. The Programme shall actively promote the use of the results of publicly funded research and of scientific evidence in policy-making processes at all levels, fostering stronger links between research, innovation, and the development of evidence-informed public policies. This shall include encouraging collaborative mechanisms, R&I initiatives and science-for-policy interfaces connecting policy makers with the scientific community, as well as facilitating the use of research outcomes in shaping future legislative and regulatory frameworks at all levels. Special emphasis shall be placed on ensuring that scientific insights are accessible and relevant to decision makers and citizens, with instruments for the effective use of research results, policy briefs, and recommendations. | (b) advance scientific knowledge and contribute to the creation of informed, effective, and responsive public policies across the Union and beyond. The Programme shall actively promote the use of the results of publicly funded research and of scientific evidence in policy-making processes at all levels, fostering stronger links between research, innovation, and the development of evidence-informed public policies. This shall include encouraging collaborative mechanisms, R&I initiatives and science-for-policy interfaces connecting policy makers with the scientific community, as well as facilitating the use of research outcomes in shaping future legislative and regulatory frameworks at all levels. Special emphasis shall be placed on ensuring that scientific insights are accessible and relevant to decision makers and citizens, with instruments for the effective use of research results, policy briefs, and recommendations, recognising that science for policy requires a strong weight of evidence, robust and transparent methodologies, clear communication of uncertainty and rigorous peer review in order to ensure credibility, accountability and public trust. |
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| (b) advance scientific knowledge and contribute to the creation of informed, effective, and responsive public policies across the Union and beyond. The Programme shall actively promote the use of the results of publicly funded research and of scientific evidence in policy-making processes at all levels, fostering stronger links between research, innovation, and the development of evidence-informed public policies. This shall include encouraging collaborative mechanisms, R&I initiatives and science-for-policy interfaces connecting policy makers with the scientific community, as well as facilitating the use of research outcomes in shaping future legislative and regulatory frameworks at all levels. Special emphasis shall be placed on ensuring that scientific insights are accessible and relevant to decision makers and citizens, with instruments for the effective use of research results, policy briefs, and recommendations. | (b) advance scientific knowledge and contribute to the creation of informed, effective, and responsive public policies across the Union and beyond. The Programme shall actively promote the use of the results of publicly funded research and of scientific evidence in policy-making processes at all levels, fostering stronger links between research, innovation, and the development of evidence-informed public policies. This shall include encouraging collaborative mechanisms, R&I initiatives and science-for-policy interfaces connecting policy makers with the scientific community, as well as facilitating the use of research outcomes in shaping future legislative and regulatory frameworks at all levels. Special emphasis shall be placed on ensuring that scientific insights are accessible and relevant to decision makers and citizens, with instruments for the effective use of research results, policy briefs, and recommendations, including at national, regional and local level, in order to strengthen the effective territorial diffusion and implementation of research and innovation results. |
Elena Donazzan, Nicola Procaccini, Mariateresa Vivaldini, Carlo Ciccioli, Alessandro Ciriani, Pietro Fiocchi, Lara Magoni, Francesco Torselli, Carlo Fidanza, Anna Zalewska
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| (b) advance scientific knowledge and contribute to the creation of informed, effective, and responsive public policies across the Union and beyond. The Programme shall actively promote the use of the results of publicly funded research and of scientific evidence in policy-making processes at all levels, fostering stronger links between research, innovation, and the development of evidence-informed public policies. This shall include encouraging collaborative mechanisms, R&I initiatives and science-for-policy interfaces connecting policy makers with the scientific community, as well as facilitating the use of research outcomes in shaping future legislative and regulatory frameworks at all levels. Special emphasis shall be placed on ensuring that scientific insights are accessible and relevant to decision makers and citizens, with instruments for the effective use of research results, policy briefs, and recommendations. | (b) advance scientific knowledge and contribute to the creation of informed, effective, and responsive public policies across the Union and beyond. The Programme shall actively promote the use of the results of publicly funded research and of scientific evidence in policy-making processes at all levels, fostering stronger links between research, innovation, and the development of evidence-informed public policies. This shall include encouraging collaborative mechanisms, R&I initiatives and science-for-policy interfaces connecting policy makers with the scientific community, as well as practitioners, economic actors and territorial stakeholders facilitating the use of research outcomes in shaping future legislative and regulatory frameworks at all levels. Special emphasis shall be placed on ensuring that scientific insights are accessible and relevant to decision makers and citizens, with instruments for the effective use of research results, policy briefs, and recommendations. |
Dario Nardella, Stefano Bonaccini, Giorgio Gori, Cristina Maestre, Camilla Laureti, Maria Grapini, Elena Sancho Murillo, Eric Sargiacomo, André Franqueira Rodrigues
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| (b) advance scientific knowledge and contribute to the creation of informed, effective, and responsive public policies across the Union and beyond. The Programme shall actively promote the use of the results of publicly funded research and of scientific evidence in policy-making processes at all levels, fostering stronger links between research, innovation, and the development of evidence-informed public policies. This shall include encouraging collaborative mechanisms, R&I initiatives and science-for-policy interfaces connecting policy makers with the scientific community, as well as facilitating the use of research outcomes in shaping future legislative and regulatory frameworks at all levels. Special emphasis shall be placed on ensuring that scientific insights are accessible and relevant to decision makers and citizens, with instruments for the effective use of research results, policy briefs, and recommendations. | (b) advance scientific knowledge and contribute to the creation of informed, effective, and responsive public policies across the Union and beyond. The Programme shall actively promote the use of the results of publicly funded research and of scientific evidence in policy-making processes at all levels, fostering stronger links between research, innovation, and the development of evidence-informed public policies. This shall include encouraging collaborative mechanisms, R&I initiatives and science-for-policy interfaces connecting policy makers with the scientific community, as well as economic actors and territorial stakeholders facilitating the use of research outcomes in shaping future legislative and regulatory frameworks at all levels. Special emphasis shall be placed on ensuring that scientific insights are accessible and relevant to decision makers and citizens, with instruments for the effective use of research results, policy briefs, and recommendations. |
Research and innovation can only deliver their full potential when scientific excellence is effectively connected to real economic, social and territorial needs. This amendment therefore seeks to reinforce the Programme's commitment to multi-actor and practice-oriented approaches, ensuring that research and innovation activities are co-designed and co-implemented with relevant end-users and sectoral actors, thereby maximising their concrete impact and uptake on the ground.
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| (b a) cover the research and innovation value chain and enable synergies with the European Competitiveness Fund to foster the uptake and deployment of research and innovation results, assist widening countries to increase their participation in it and to promote a broad geographical coverage including through providing for additional eligibility criteria in the work programme in order to take into account specific policy requirements or the nature and objectives of the action; |
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| (b a) The Programme shall assist widening countries to increase their participation in it and to promote a broad geographical coverage including through providing for additional eligibility criteria in the work programme in order to take into account specific policy requirements or the nature and objectives of the action. |
Article 7(5) of the current Regulation on Horizon Europe explicitly identified supporting and encouraging broader geographical participation, excellence through cooperation as a horizontal principle. This horizontal principle shall be maintained in the upcoming Framework Program.
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| (b a) assist widening countries to increase their participation in it and to promote a broad geographical coverage including through providing for additional eligibility criteria in the work programme in order to take into account specific policy requirements or the nature and objectives of the action. |
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| (b a) ensure that the governance and implementation structures of the Programme, including advisory bodies and boards, promote diversity and a broad geographical representation across the Union, alongside balance in expertise and gender, while fully respecting the excellence-based selection of projects. |
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| (b a) cover the research and innovation value chain and enable synergies with the European Competitiveness Fund to foster the uptake and deployment of research and innovation results |
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| (b b) assist widening countries to increase their participation in the Programme and to promote a broad geographical coverage including through providing for additional eligibility criteria in the work programme in order to take into account specific policy requirements or the nature and objectives of the action. |
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| (c) encourage open science practices including by ensuring open access to peer-reviewed scientific publications regarding results, as well as open access to research data and other results following the principle ‘as open as possible, as closed as necessary’. | (c) encourage open science practices including by ensuring open access to peer-reviewed scientific publications regarding results, as well as open access to research data and other results following the principle ‘as open as possible, as closed as necessary’ and ensure responsible management of research data and safe, secure and permanent storage of this data. |
Lina Gálvez, Elena Sancho Murillo, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Christophe Clergeau, Giorgio Gori, Sofie Eriksson, Matthias Ecke, René Repasi
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| (c) encourage open science practices including by ensuring open access to peer-reviewed scientific publications regarding results, as well as open access to research data and other results following the principle ‘as open as possible, as closed as necessary’. | (c) encourage open science practices including by ensuring open access to peer-reviewed scientific publications resulting from research funded under this programme. Open access to research data and other results should be granted following the principle ‘as open as possible, as closed as necessary’, with the possibility of specific exemptions. |
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| (ca) In accordance with Article 19, the Programme should be implemented in a manner that promotes a more balanced geographical distribution of funding across Member States and regions. In this context, the Commission should take into account the varying levels of administrative capacity, experience with participation and access to innovation networks, in particular in regions, sectors and Member States with lower research intensity, in order to avoid excessive concentration of funding. To this end, in cooperation with the Member States, the Commission should actively promote participation from under-represented countries and regions through targeted capacity-building measures, training and mentoring schemes, support for project development and networking, and other appropriate accompanying actions aimed at improving access to the Programme. |
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| (c a) (a) foster systemic synergies and coordination with other Union programmes and funds, particularly the European Competitiveness Fund and Cohesion Policy funds, to ensure a seamless transition across the entire research and innovation value chain and to maximize the collective impact of Union investments; | |
| (b) respond to the shifting geopolitical landscape by strengthening the Union’s strategic autonomy and security, including through the support of dual-use technologies and cybersecurity, while ensuring uniform mechanisms for the protection of sensitive research data; (c) promote merit-based progression and upward convergence within the European Research Area, ensuring that the Programme’s instruments incentivize Member States to strengthen their national R&I systems and graduate towards the group of leading innovators. |
Lina Gálvez, Elena Sancho Murillo, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Christophe Clergeau, Giorgio Gori, Sofie Eriksson, Matthias Ecke, René Repasi
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| (c a) The Programme shall ensure the effective promotion of equal opportunities for all and the implementation of gender mainstreaming, including the integration of the gender dimension in R&I content. This includes mandating the systematic integration, justification, and reporting of intersectional differences pertaining to sex, gender, and other grounds of discrimination such as age, race, and socioeconomic status across the research lifecycle, including study design, data collection, analysis and dissemination with appropriate accountability requirements. Moreover, gender balance shall be required in evaluation panels, boards of directors, and in other relevant advisory bodies such as boards and expert groups, ensuring equal representation within decision-making bodies. |
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| (c a) ensure the effective promotion of equal opportunities for all and the implementation of gender mainstreaming, including the integration of the gender dimension in R&I content and for research careers supported by the Programme. It shall aim to address the causes of gender imbalance. Particular attention shall be paid to ensuring gender balance in evaluation panels and in other relevant advisory bodies such as boards and expert groups. This shall be applied on the basis of the approach adopted along the previous programming period 2021-2027, while strengthening its effectiveness across the entire current Programme. |
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| (c a) uphold research security by anticipating and managing risks such as undesirable transfer of critical technology, results and knowledge, malign influence on research, and ethical or integrity violations, applying a risk-based approach to participation and funding decisions, safeguarding sensitive results, know-how, and critical technologies, and promoting international cooperation aligned with the Union’s strategic interest. |
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| (c a) Circularity and material efficiency. Work programmes under all Parts of the Programme shall, where relevant, encourage the integration of lifecycle thinking, secondary material use, circular business model innovation, and systemic circularity approaches in proposed activities, and shall recognise these approaches as positive evaluation factors |
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| (c a) advance gender equality through the effective promotion of equal opportunities for all and the implementation of gender mainstreaming, including the consideration of intersectionality and the integration of the gender dimension in R&I content. |
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| (c a) (d) promote research and innovation in strategic technologies, energy efficiency and sustainable industrial processes, supporting collaboration between academia, industry and public authorities to accelerate practical and scalable solutions. |
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| (c a) promote a broad geographical coverage in collaborative projects, including through spreading scientific excellence, boosting new collaborative links, stimulating brain circulation as well as through the implementation of Article 19. |
Ivars Ijabs, Emma Wiesner, Elisabetta Gualmini, Christophe Grudler, Barry Andrews, Morten Løkkegaard, Martin Hojsík
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| (c a) (new) contribute to the Union’s climate objectives by integrating climate considerations into research and innovation content and ensuring appropriate climate mainstreaming across actions under the Programme, where appropriate. |
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| (c a) promote a broad geographical coverage in collaborative projects boosting new collaborative links, stimulating brain circulation as well as through the implementation of Article 19. |
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| (c a) ensure a balanced approach across its instruments, preserving openness and geographical balance |
Lina Gálvez, Elena Sancho Murillo, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Christophe Clergeau, Giorgio Gori, Matthias Ecke, René Repasi
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| (c b) focus on research and innovation activities with civilian objectives and expected applications. The Programme shall remain civilian in its nature. | |
| Support to activities with potential dual-use applications shall be provided only where their primary objective and their expected applications, as specified in the action, are directed at civilian purposes and clearly contribute to the objectives set out in Article 3. | |
| Activities whose primary objective or expected applications are directed at or substantially concerned with defence or military applications shall not be supported under this Programme and shall be directed towards Union instruments specifically designed for that purpose, including the European Competitiveness Fund. Activities that require further development or deployment directed at defence or military purposes in order to achieve their stated objectives shall equally not be eligible. | |
| The Commission shall ensure that the designation of activities or topics as open to potential dual-use applications in the Work Programme is limited, proportionate and duly justified by reference to the objective of the Programme. Where such activities are included, the Commission shall define appropriate conditions and safeguards in accordance with Article 21. |
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| (c b) uphold research security by anticipating, mitigating and managing risks such as theft, manipulation, undesirable transfer of critical technology, results and knowledge, malign influence on research, and ethical or integrity violations, or unauthorised access to data and infrastructures. |
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| (c b) Be implemented, to the extent possible, in synergy with other EU instruments, including for the valorisation and exploitation of the results of this Programme and the technology transfer, and market and industrial uptakes. |
Ivars Ijabs, Emma Wiesner, Elisabetta Gualmini, Christophe Grudler, Barry Andrews, Morten Løkkegaard, Michał Kobosko, Martin Hojsík
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| (c b) (new) promote co-creation and co-design through the engagement of citizens and civil society and ensure transparency and accountability of public funding in R&I projects. |
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| (c b) ensure administrative simplification and the reduction of the burden for the benefit of applicants and beneficiaries; |
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| (c c) assist widening countries to increase their participation in it and to promote a broad geographical coverage including through providing for additional eligibility criteria in the work programme in order to take into account specific policy requirements or the nature and objectives of the action. |
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| (c c) Follow an inclusive, predictable and transparent programming process facilitating the participation of all relevant stakeholders, including the research community, thematic platforms, and civil society; |
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| (c c) (cd) ensure equal opportunities for all research and innovation stakeholders accross the Union; |
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| (c d) facilitate the participation of all types of stakeholders, especially newcomers, SMEs, innovative startups and scaleups, and new target groups in the Programme, in particular through the NCPs, which shall interact with relevant support structures under other Union programmes |
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| Multi-level governance and territorial co-design. The Programme shall support the active involvement of regional and local public authorities as co-designers of work programme priorities, co-investors in research and innovation activities, and co-implementers of mission-driven and systems innovation initiatives. Work programmes under Part II shall, where relevant, include specific instruments or eligibility provisions enabling cities, regions and other subnational authorities to participate directly as lead entities or core partners in collaborative research and innovation activities. Structured mechanisms for dialogue between the Commission and subnational authorities shall be established in the implementation of the Programme. |
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| ensure the effective promotion of ethics and integrity in research and innovation, freedom of scientific research, gender equality, equal opportunities, non-discrimination, accessibility for persons with disabilities, open science, academic freedom and socially responsible research and innovation. |
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| ensure administrative simplification and the reduction of the burden for the benefit of applicants and beneficiaries |
There is a reason to highlight that the simplification measures are targeted to applicants and beneficiaries.
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| promote stable and attractive research careers, fair remuneration, secure working conditions, social protection and action against precarious employment in research and higher education. |
Lina Gálvez, Elena Sancho Murillo, Thomas Pellerin-Carlin, Christophe Clergeau, Giorgio Gori, Matthias Ecke, René Repasi
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| Article5a | |
| Dual-use activities | |
| 1. Activities with potential dual-use applications shall be supported under the Programme only where they are primarily designed for civil purposes and contribute to the objectives set out in Article 3. | |
| 2. The design, selection and implementation of such activities shall follow a proportionate approach, taking into account their potential level of defence relevance. | |
| 3. Activities with more than incidental or limited defence relevance shall not be supported under this Programme. | |
| 4. Activities requiring further development, deployment or scaling in a defence context shall be supported under other Union instruments, including the European Competitiveness Fund. | |
| 5. Where activities with potential dual-use applications are supported, the Commission shall ensure, where appropriate: | |
| (a) specific eligibility and participation conditions; | |
| (b) measures for the protection of sensitive results; | |
| (c) appropriate safeguards concerning dissemination and access to results; | |
| (d) conditions ensuring consistency with the civilian nature of the Programme. | |
| 6. The implementation of this Article shall ensure complementarity and coherence with other Union programmes and instruments. |
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European Parliament (2026). “AMENDMENTS 399 - 759 - Draft report Establishing Horizon Europe, the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, for the period 2028-2034 laying down its rules for participation and dissemination, and repealing Regulation (EU) 2021/695”. Text, 10 April 2026. docId ITRE-AM-786960. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/ITRE-AM-786960 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Data: EP Open Data API: document record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/documents/ITRE-AM-786960 (CC BY 4.0).
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@misc{epw-text-itre-am-786960,
author = {{European Parliament}},
title = {{AMENDMENTS 399 - 759 - Draft report Establishing Horizon Europe, the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, for the period 2028-2034 laying down its rules for participation and dissemination, and repealing Regulation (EU) 2021/695}},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-04-10},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/ITRE-AM-786960}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/ITRE-AM-786960},
urldate = {2026-09-25},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Text. docId ITRE-AM-786960. Data: EP Open Data API: document record (CC BY 4.0)}
}