French President Emmanuel Macron gave some much-needed political support to the European Commission’s plan to create a new innovation agency.
European universities have been busy matchmaking and as a result the European Commission has received 54 joint submissions for its new €60 million scheme to build ‘Networks of European Universities.’
The LIFE programme has opened registration for its annual information day and published guidance for its 2019 calls for project proposals.
In the early hours of the morning on 20 March, negotiators for the European Parliament and the EU Council struck a deal on Horizon Europe, the EU’s next research funding programme, improving chances that the European Commission will be able implement it on time in 2021.
Missions will be a feature of Horizon Europe, but the development of this new feature is challenging both when it comes to policy and operational decisions.