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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 soci...

02 Feb 2021   |   News Policymakers call for greater speed in getting grants to researchers as Horizon Europe is formally launched Chair of the Parliament research and industry committee calls on Commission to ignore legal niceties and get money from new research programme flowing as soon as possible. MEPs also want more effort to create synergies with other funding streams With great fanfare, the European Commission heralded the start of its next big R&D programme, Horizon Europe – but it caught some criticism for the fact that it will be months before the money starts flowing or the rem...

This article is brought to you in association with the European Parliament. Ministers are outlining the priorities of the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the EU to parliamentary committees, in a series of meetings. Portugal holds the Presidency of the Council until the end of June 2021. The first set of hearings takes place between 25 and 28 January. A second set of hearings will take place the following week. This press release will be updated regularly. Foreign Affairs On 26 January, Foreign Affairs Minister Augusto Santos Silva outlined a range of external action priorities to th...

Portugal’s minister for science, technology and higher education, Manuel Heitor, on Wednesday (14 January) described space as a “critical resource” in the EU green and digital transition and in promoting “a new future for Europeans”. He said that European space development policy should be based on “three terms of reference”: promoting supply, strengthening demand and building bridges linking the two. In terms of supply, the minister said that “the role of governments in general, and the European Commission in particular, should be to create markets” in areas that extend ...

12 Jan 2021   |   News Portuguese presidency sets out to revive the European Research Area Better integration of funding streams is the route to fostering the long-elusive single market for research, says Portugal’s research minister Manuel Heitor Portuguese Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education, Manuel Heitor. Photo: EU Commission. The Portuguese presidency has made strengthening the European Research Area (ERA) a priority over the next six months, with the country’s research minister, Manuel Heitor saying that integrating different European, national and private fundin...