The European Commission has started a new Mutual Learning Exercise (MLE) on National Strategies and Roadmaps for International Cooperation in Research and Innovation with 15 participating countries.
Research and innovation partnerships were introduced to develop the European Research Area (ERA), with the aim of overcoming fragmentation and duplication, enhancing competitiveness and innovation and addressing global and European challenges more effectively.
The European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) was initially proposed in 2016 as part of the European Cloud initiative, and was officially launched at a dedicated event hosted by the Austrian Presidency in November 2018.
Building on the work of independent experts, appointed through an open selection process in June 2018, the Commission is launching a pilot phase to ensure that the new ethical guidelines for Artificial Intelligence (AI) development and use can be implemented in practice.
This article provides an update on the Societal Challenge 5 'Climate Action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials' part of Horizon 2020, before the publication of the 2020 Work Programme later this year. It also provides an overview of other research-related activity in this area in last two months.