Establishing Horizon 2020 - The Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2014-2020)

Information
Date: 
28/02
Fee: 

Free of charge

Location: 

Tuesday 28 February, 14h30 – 16h30 At the premises of the Committee of the Regions (Rue Belliard 99-101, B-1040 Brussels) Room JDE 63

The Committee of the Regions is drafting an opinion on the attached Commission Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on "Establishing Horizon 2020 - The Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2014-2020)", COM (2011) 809 final.

Innovation has been placed at the heart of the Europe 2020 strategy as our best means of successfully tackling major societal challenges, such as climate change, energy and resource scarcity, health and ageing, which are becoming more urgent by the day. In this context, the CoR opinion on Horizon will have two main focus areas:

  • Addressing fundamental policy questions related to excellence, capacity-building, smart specialisation, regional research and innovation ecosystems,
  • Proposing concrete recommendations on issues affecting local and regional actors.

 These issues include, but are not limited to: public procurement; researcher mobility; access to complementary finance; research infrastructure; and strategies for R&D and regional development.

 

The Rapporteur on the opinion, Mr. Markku MARKKULA (FI/EPP), Member of the EDUC Commission of the CoR and Member of the Espoo City Council would be happy to meet for a consultation and an exchange of views on his opinion with representatives of local and regional associations, and of national research and innovation agencies, in addition to other stakeholders.

The consultation will take place on:

Tuesday 28 February, 14h30 – 16h30At the premises of the Committee of the Regions(Rue Belliard 99-101, B-1040 Brussels)Room JDE 63

 

Rapporteur would be very keen to hear your views during the meeting: after a short introduction, stakeholders are invited to present their positions.

The consultation will focus on the points and questions raised in a working document that will be sent to registered participants. The document will address the following issues which should serve as a starting point for the debate or for your contributions:

 

  • Importance of Horizon 2020 with respect to the Europe 2020 strategy;
  • Horizon 2020 opens up extremely important opportunities;
  • European transformation towards societal innovations;
  • Accelerating and scaling up innovation;
  • Smart specialisation;
  • Strengthening the regional dimension in Horizon – Regions of Knowledge & Living Labs;
  • Key enabling technologies, research infrastructures and ecosystems

 

The Rapporteur would be very glad to receive your written comments. If you already have a related position paper, please send us a copy by February 23. Other written contributions are also welcome until March 6.

 

The consultation will be held in English. Please note that the mother tongue of the Rapporteur is Finnish. 

For practical reasons, I would kindly ask you to confirm before 27 February at 15h00 if you would like to attend by registering here.

Please note that the CoR is not in a position to reimburse expenses (e.g. travel, subsistence) incurred by participants.

 For more information, please contact our team:

 

 

 The announcement and the working document are available through the CoR website:

 - Announcement    please note that the CoR is not in a position to reimburse expenses (e.g. travel, subsistence) incurred by participants  - Working document