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Technology sovereignty, international cooperation and translation of research to market are on the menu, for Belgium’s tail-end presidency of the EU from January to June next year, as the clock ticks down to the June 6 – 9 elections.
Last week, Canada became the latest non-European country to announce it will join Horizon Europe, the EU’s €95 billion research and innovation programme.
Christian Ehler MEP is calling on research stakeholders across the EU to unite in the fight for a strong budget for Framework programme 10 (FP10), as MEPs celebrate clawing back an extra €80 million for Horizon Europe in 2024.
The European Union’s next seven-year science funding programme has to have a budget of €200 billion to ensure that future challenges can be met, say two of the European Parliament’s top voices on research and innovation policy, Christian Ehler and Maria da Graça Carvalho.
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings list published in September had a notable absence: a regular in the top 100, Utrecht University had withdrawn, citing concerns about the emphasis on metrics such as the number of papers published and the prestige of the journals in which they appeared.