Europe faces a triple imperative to protect, prepare and transform in its quest for building forward better after the deadliest pandemic of the past century and for building forward better to address the greatest challenge humanity has ever faced – climate change and biodiversity collapse. An en...
Researchers have been among the first responding professions to address the COVID-19 pandemic. Among other things, they advised public authorities on containment measures, worked on diagnostic, vaccines and therapies, and investigated the best recovery opportunities. While the pandemic spurred n...
This report presents insights and recommendations from a workshop held on 1 July 2021 attended by beneficiaries of the Science with and for Society (SwafS) Responsible Research and Innovation institutional change portfolio of projects funded under Horizon 2020 and the initial group of European U...
The 2021 She Figures edition is accompanied by seven policy briefs on emerging and ongoing policy priorities in the area of gender equality in research and innovation to further contextualise data trends observed in the main study. The policy briefs cover topics related to women’s presence, part...
The interim evaluation of Horizon 2020 , the report by the Lamy Group , and other stakeholder feedback, noted that the current system for evaluating proposals is in general appreciated and one of the reasons for widely acknowledged successful implementation of Horizon 2020. With a view of mainta...
Stories and narratives are a powerful tool of Futures Literacy and Futures Thinking. In recent years, they have been fighting for attention next to scenarios and trend research within the Foresight discipline, and there is a good reason for it. Adding up to 21 stories, the narratives in this boo...
This report collected the views of a range of innovation stakeholders such as start-ups, SMEs, business support organisations, universities and research organisations, incubators and accelerators, on how to strengthen the European innovation ecosystem and improve innovation cohesion in Europe. O...
This report describes the main activities of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (EGE) in the course of its 2017-2021 mandate, the context of increasing demand for far-sighted ethical advice, the variety of domains and stakeholders engaged in the development of these eth...
Start-up and scale-up firms are key drivers in promoting innovation and fostering a competitive economy. While there is evidence that the European ecosystem for start-ups has improved, the scale-up gap between the European Union (EU) and the United States (US) remains large. We analyse the reaso...
European Research and Innovation Days is the European Commission’s annual flagship Research and Innovation event, bringing together policymakers, researchers, entrepreneurs and the public to debate and shape the future of research and innovation in Europe and beyond. 2021 was the third edition. ...