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The European Commission is weighing up whether to add tougher rules to promote gender equality in research grant contracts awarded in the imminent Horizon Europe R&D programme, according to leaked draft planning documents.
Representatives of the Portuguese presidency of the Council today reached a provisional political agreement with the negotiators of the European Parliament on a package consisting of :
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a decision on the future Strategic Innovation Agenda (SIA) of the EIT.
The key amendments to the existing EIT regulation concern financial sustainability and openness of Knowledge and Innovation Communities (KICs), stronger principles for monitoring and evaluation and the role of the member states in the governance of the EIT. More specifically, the EIT will establish performance-based mechanisms for the granting of financial contributions to KICs in order to enhance their capacity to attract other investments and to finance their activities independently of the EIT s contributions. The enforcement of these provisions will be supported by stronger monitoring and evaluation principles: the continuation of existing KICs will be subject to comprehensive assessment, which should include the mon
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Viewpoint: Lessons from Operation Warp Speed can help overcome EU vaccines crisis
As the problem of COVID-19 vaccines supplies so potently illustrates, it is time to rethink the EU’s pandemic preparedness strategy. More support is needed for late stage clinical development and large scale manufacturing
Michel Goldman, former executive director of the EU Innovative Medicines Initiative and professor emeritus at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
Despite European Medicines Agency approval of three COVID-19 vaccines and the hundreds of millions of doses procured through advance purchase agreements negotiated by the European Commission, member states are facing a shortage of vaccine supplies and falling behind Israel, the UK and the US in terms of vaccines coverage.
celebrate the launch of Horizon
Europe and allow me to start by thanking the team of the Portuguese Presidency for having organised this important event.
The European Commission has been always focused on delivering a timely start and a robust budget for Horizon Europe.
I am pleased because it is strategic for the future of Europe and also because it rewards the hard work of the wider European research community and the engagement of the co-legislators.
It was negotiated in difficult conditions, with more uncertainties than usual, arising from the COVID pandemics that is hitting hard our societies and our economies, but also from the UK leaving the Union.