• Posted 07-Sep-2020

Have your say on EU missions for adapting to climate change, conquering cancer, greener cities and healthy oceans and soils

How would you tackle adaptation to climate change? Got an idea to make cities greener? Care about healthy oceans, and healthy soils for food, people and the planet? Want to help conquer cancer? Now you can share your views with the Commission in the EU missions’ call for ideas, open from 1 to 14 September 2020.

EU missions aim to deliver solutions to some of our greatest societal challenges, such as cancer, adaptation to climate change, healthy oceans, climate-neutral cities and healthy soil and food. The Commission is designing and creating these missions together with input from Europeans to ensure that the missions meet their expectations and needs. As part of this process, an interactive pilot platform has been launched so that anyone can put forward his or her own ideas and vote for the ones he or she likes best. Voting will remain open until 14 September.

In June, the Mission Boards, a broad mix of independent experts from innovation, research, policy making, civil society and practitioner organisations, presented their first proposals for EU missions. Throughout summer, online events have taken place on these proposals around Europe to listen to people’s priorities and gather their ideas. The results of the latest call for ideas will be presented at the online ‘European Research & Innovation Days’ (22-24 September 2020). At this event, the Mission Boards will also handover their final missions recommendations to the Commission.

The selected missions will be announced at the end of 2020 and launched in 2021.

Source: European Commission | Research and Innovation News (https://bit.ly/2DEDWcc)