Horizon Europe Navigators MeetUp: Strengthening the chances of success in Horizon Europe

The PolSCA Office invites representatives of the local community of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Poznań to a meeting to discuss activities supporting the units of the Polish Academy of Sciences and an expert meeting on issues related to Horizon Europe, as well as to present the activities of the office. Registration for the meeting is by invitation.

The agenda of the day includes a working meeting with members of the Horizon Europe Navigators Network representing Institutes based in Wielkopolska.

A dedicated meeting for the management of the Institutes of the Polish Academy of Sciences has been planned, during which the tools and areas of support of the PolSCA Office for the Institutes of the Polish Academy of Sciences will be presented, the possibilities of influencing the research agenda and increasing participation in Horizon Europe, as well as a discussion on the needs of units in the field of support and cooperation opportunities.

The next part of MeetUp will be devoted to a meeting with researchers and project managers of the Institutes of the Polish Academy of Sciences, during which the possibilities of support for applicants for Horizon Europe and a working discussion on the needs of units in the field of support and cooperation opportunities will be presented. Later, participants will be able to take part in parallel sessions regarding possibilities of participating in the competitions of the Work Program 2023-24 of Horizon Europe, conducted by Experts of the National Contact Point of the National Center for Research and Development:

• Cluster 1. Health

• Cluster 6. Food, bioeconomy, natural resources, agriculture and the environment.

The MeetUp will close with a session dedicated to the strategic approach to Horizon Europe and ways to achieve grant success, which will be conducted by Experts of the Horizontal Contact Point for Western Poland.

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After the end of the MeetUp, there will be a dedicated meeting for members of the working team on simplification in Horizon Europe operating within the HE Navigators network on the evaluation of the framework program and consultation of the strategic plan.

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In 2021, the PolSCA Office – in synergy with the PASIFIC program – initiated a network of science managers as part of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the so-called Horizon Europe Navigators.

Identified among the employees of the Institutes of the Polish Academy of Sciences, HE Navigators support the effective transfer of information in the scientific environment of their Institutes and the effective distribution of the training offer of the PolSCA Office and partners. The common goal of the PolSCA Office and the HE Navigators Network is to deepen knowledge and exchange good practices, and consequently – to increase the participation of the Institutes of the Polish Academy of Sciences in the Horizon Europe framework programme. Currently, 62 institutes of the Polish Academy of Sciences and several auxiliary units of the Polish Academy of Sciences are involved in the network.

In 2022, the PolSCA Office organized a number of dedicated meetings – in online format – for members of the network, the so-called “HE Navigators MeetUps” and several meetings as part of the series “PolSCA webinars on Horizon Europe” open to the environment of academics and research managers at the Academy. All these events were online meetings.v